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  • cynetri (he/any)@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    For all its strengths, Arch is kind of a pain in the ass to maintain. I daily drive it but I risk breaking something if I don’t update regularly. My youtube laptop can’t update at all anymore from something I don’t care to fix (when Firefox breaks then its a big deal lmao) and my main rig needed to use the fallback initramfs for a while after I forgot to update for a while. mkinitcpio -P (I think) fixed it though

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      1 year ago

      What do you mean exactly? A running system shouldn’t spontaneously break from not being updated. It’s just that partial upgrades can break compatibility/dependencies, but running full system upgrades should be fine, as long as you pay attention to breaking changes and major version bumps. Also with timeshift it should always be possible to get back to a working state.

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        1 year ago

        I imagine it’s a pacman keyring issue. I had it break on me on multiple occasions, on different machines, all after not having updated for a long-ish while.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t get this either. Before my current PC, my last install was 6 years old. I could count on one hand the number of times I broke that install and every single time was my own damn fault.

        I had Manjaro on a laptop that didn’t get updated for about a year. Broken on update because I didn’t check Arch news first to see if manual intervention was needed. Was still faster to fix than a backup-reinstall.

        Countless other installs of Arch or derivatives on various PCs and laptops without issue.

        There can definitely be more of a learning curve but once you’re set, I find it much easier to maintain than other distros. 🤷🏻‍♀️