I've never had an arch update brick my system. It's really pretty hard to brick a 'nix. When I ran arch (and I ran it for quite a while) I had the occasional b

I've never had an arch update brick my system. It's really pretty hard to brick a 'nix. When I ran arch (and I ran it for quite a while) I had the occasional breakage, but I don't recall ever having a break that I needed to boot into a live environment to fix, let alone require a re-install. Granted, it might be quicker to re-install if you haven't fermented in linux-land for long enough to know how to figure out what's borked and what you need to do to fix it, particularly if you would need to boot a live usb or something, but I'm struggling to think of things that would actually brick a linux system these days that aren't either hardware failures, some really crazy filesystem corruption, literally rm -rf / for way too long, or being installed on a machine with no alt-boot method. On the bright side, reinstalling isn't too bad unless you don't use separate partitions. All that said, there is a pretty hefty active maintenance cost to running Arch. At least they're explicit about it.