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Alright, Archcucks. Justify the the continuous/instant update/bleeding edge meme.
You have never gotten anything necessary from a new update. And if you did, it's nothing that you couldn't get from any other distro only several days later.
Beeing "bleeding edge" just means you have more untested code.
I've used Arch-based distros for a while and they can't be trusted to do some of the most basic things consistently. I don't think I've gone three straight days without printer driver errors.
Ooops now I gotta fix X. Now I gotta downgrade Blender. Now I gotta reinstall LaTeX and the 2 gigs of packages that go with it. Daily life of an Archcuck.
Arch machines are the only ones that spontaneously break.
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>>58228465
Ive had no issues with arch, arch based distros are a different story. Bleeding edge allows you to get security updates as fast as possible (kernel updates for example) that would take much longer on other distros.
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Works on my machine!
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>>58228465
Why would arch be so unstable?
I've never used it but Solus is also bleeding edge and stable release. Works perfectly for me.
What makes Arch so different? If what you say is true.
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>>58230019
How many times and tries did its shitty installer break on you and your installs until you actually finally successfully installed it without the installer breaking? :^)
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>>58230052
Took me one whole try. It literally just works.
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>>58230047
I can't speak for Solus, maybe it's more competently managed, but I'm at the point where I'm always nervous updating Arch because *something* can be counted on to break every week or so. Usually printer drivers or some basic gtk tool.
>>58229603
Kernel updates have never given me any problem. I have nothing against them, but the idea that constant updates of every program as they come out just makes no sense.
I think a lot of Arch users (including myself at the begining) just love being able to update once or twice a day and get new shit. Once the rush was over I was just left with a system that's a pain to manage.
Plus, I'm on vacation now and am a little worried by Arch desktop back home is going to be in for a world of pain after I update it for the first time in a month or so.
>>58230019
Never tried it. I've done Arch, Manjaro and Parabola and all have been about equivalently annoying.
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>>58228465
>(YOU)
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I'm just in it for the AUR. I use quite a few packages that are on the AUR but that I'd have to get through github and keep updated manually otherwise.
Other than that I don't find my experience much different than when using any other distro.
Over 4 years I don't recall any breakage.
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>>58228465
It's the same everyday, I don't see whats the point of this kind of thread but I wouldn't be so bad to read the damn wiki. Arch has a testing repository. I had more issues with Debian or mint because the fix for the bugs always appeared for the latest version.
>works on my machine.
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Don't like it? Don't use it. Use whatever you end up liking most.
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