Ok, I'm speaking purely from my experience and there's a big chance that I'm stupid but: I've tried running Arch as my main OS in the last year. I needed a wee

Ok, I'm speaking purely from my experience and there's a big chance that I'm stupid but: I've tried running Arch as my main OS in the last year. I needed a weekend to configure the OS and even wrote a little daemon to handle the conservative fan spin ups on my overheating Macbook Pro. After that it was great as long as it lasted. But then the OS just died 3 times. What had I done? A simple > pacman -Syu was enough. Whenever there was a bigger change (a new kernel, new init system, etc.) a simple update would render my Arch installation unbootable. And to get everything to work I had to waste hours (in one case days because of re-install) to get it to work again. That's not something I want from an OS I'm using productively.