• Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is it just me who chuckles when all the peeps here confirm the meme by their “BuT Me ArCh NeVeR bRoKe” posts all super serious and not at all a little butthurt? <Insert trollface>

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    1 year ago

    Imma be real… Arch has been the most consistent system I’ve used to date.

    I’ve been using linux off and on since like 2008. I jumped around from ubuntu, fedora, opensus, popOS, centOS, etc… I’ve had manjaro and now arch as my daily driver for probably 4 or more years now and Arch updates have only ever broke one thing, one time, and it was more of a audio pipewire issue than it was really archs fault.

    arch updates do not deserve this slander, its been very reliable for me, more than probably any system i’ve ever used.

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    The “Arch breaks all the time” people have obviously never used Arch.

    I’ve run Arch as a daily driver for the last 4 and a half years and haven’t had any issues. I’ve tried Pop_OS twice in that time and had install-breaking issues within a week in both cases.

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      for the most part, yes. Pop offers a pretty good overall user experience too! Honestly it has the only appstore that has enough apps for me to not have to use the terminal

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        Haha this is stunning - that someone will choose something so they are not forced to use a terminal.

        Please tell us how you can install and use SearXNG, or Prowlarr, or Overseerr with your superb GUI tools?

        Let’s face it. For anyone who ever used and is knowledgable about Windows, we must admit that the road to make Linux really useable from GUI alone is a very long one (and one that most of us just get bored with).

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          Well, my use case very much differs from yours, the appstore has enough apps to serve my needs, happy to hear a different opinion though!

          Also, you said it right there, I do not want to be forced to use a terminal all the time, I’d like the option to tinker around when I want to, it’s about choice and general accessibility. I’d like to do 90% of my mundane tasks without touching a terminal, but hey that’s how I like it.

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      I’ve definitely seen stuff break because of an update to arch. there was an issue a while back where KDE plasma and xorg together would cause taskbar icons to be absolutely massive. a subsequent update fixed that.

      the thing is, if my gaming PC is unusable, it’s not a big deal cause I don’t need it for anything. that’s why I run arch on it

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        Interesting. I’ve been running Arch/KDE for years and never saw that bug. I use Arch on almost everything.

        Steam Deck comes with kinda-Arch, I use Arch for work now, I use it on my gaming PC. The only thing that doesn’t run it is my home server because it sits in a corner and doesn’t need bleeding edge updates or the AUR.