stolen from linux memes at Deltachat

  • Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Arch is easy to install; it’s a headache to manage.

    If you want a stable Arch, you need to check the updates and take very granular control over packages and versioning.

    While some nerds may like tinkering with their system in all those ways, for regular user Arch is simply too much effort to maintain.

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        1 year ago

        Useful, but still it kinda makes you read through all the update news, which is…why?

        I’d like to just hit update and not bother.

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          Then you’re on your own. What the duck 🦆 do you expect to happen if you can’t even invest the 10sec to skim over a message (in the few events that there even is one) to see if it affects you and any manual intervention is required.

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            1 year ago

            A fully functional system, just like any other normal OS?

            You hit update - boom - you get one, seamlessly, with no breakages and no other user interaction. And that’s how it works pretty much everywhere - except, you know, Arch.

            If you’re fine with it - that’s fine, go ahead and tinker all you like. But don’t expect others to have the same priorities.

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                1 year ago

                Man that’s news from 2016, like, it’s a bit rare occasion, y’know. You’re way more likely to get borked by Arch even after reading all the instructions, and it did happen numerous times.

                Touching grass is what I do when you take steps to intervene in your system to make an update work.

                I see you are an Arch maximalist, but that goes beyond reason. Even Arch proponents are normally not as aggressive on the topic, and admit Arch is too complicated in that regard.

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                  11 months ago

                  You’re just going to shift goalposts every time I’ll post something.

                  Not recent enough. Not enough cases. That’s different.

                  And lastly you’ll just claim I do it because I’m an arch maximalist, despite not knowing anything about me :)