But the good thing is that it’s usually super easy to fix if something does break. The amount of headaches I had with PPAs and snap are worse than having an arch update break something. You can usually roll back the packages with issues (namely anything from nvidia).
Those are valid points, but windows has the exact same issues. Updates break stuff so often that many people have just adopted a habit to never update if they need to rely on their machines. The same is true for me, I spent many hours trying to find a version of the nvidia driver that has no issues.
My company recently enabled windows defender’s ASR and it caused a shitload of issues, so they had to disable it again for half the company.
Windows also does shit like turning up my volume all the time and some update broke lightshot in a weird way where some people who had it installed before the update can use it, but when you install it after the update, it just won’t launch. This crap is impossible to troubleshoot.
Meanwhile on Linux, I can fix pretty much everything with a bit of googling and if I can’t figure it out, I can post on the arch forums and get help for free, usually very quickly and by people who really know their shit.
Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.
I remember being very frustrated when they rolled out a kernal update this year that broke one of my USB slots.
I don’t remember anymore which version it was, just that it was very frustrating looking it up to find that it was a known issue but still considered low priority enough that shipping out was fine.
Edit: after half a year updated everything in arch and 2 of my USB ports still won’t turn on in the default kernel. Gotta remember which one actually works for them if I ever feel like using this laptop…
For Linux newbies, you can have both Arch and Ubuntu (or any 2+ of your favorite distro installed) by using different root partitions (16-32G) and sharing your home and other partitions.
Though it may work better if the distros you use have different desktop managers or the same desktop manager on the same major version number (KDE 3.x and 4.x settings don’t mix).
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But the good thing is that it’s usually super easy to fix if something does break. The amount of headaches I had with PPAs and snap are worse than having an arch update break something. You can usually roll back the packages with issues (namely anything from nvidia).
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Those are valid points, but windows has the exact same issues. Updates break stuff so often that many people have just adopted a habit to never update if they need to rely on their machines. The same is true for me, I spent many hours trying to find a version of the nvidia driver that has no issues.
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My company recently enabled windows defender’s ASR and it caused a shitload of issues, so they had to disable it again for half the company.
Windows also does shit like turning up my volume all the time and some update broke lightshot in a weird way where some people who had it installed before the update can use it, but when you install it after the update, it just won’t launch. This crap is impossible to troubleshoot.
Meanwhile on Linux, I can fix pretty much everything with a bit of googling and if I can’t figure it out, I can post on the arch forums and get help for free, usually very quickly and by people who really know their shit.
Isn’t that more of a ‘stable distro’ issue tho? When you run yay every other day you’ll only ever have a dozen packages updating which makes it easy to troubleshoot any breakage.
Compare that to distros that upgrade every 6 months with hundreds of packages all at once. I’d say that carries a much bigger risk of something going wrong. I used to do a fresh install of Ubuntu with every new release purely to avoid the inevitable issues of apt upgrades.
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I remember being very frustrated when they rolled out a kernal update this year that broke one of my USB slots.
I don’t remember anymore which version it was, just that it was very frustrating looking it up to find that it was a known issue but still considered low priority enough that shipping out was fine.
Edit: after half a year updated everything in arch and 2 of my USB ports still won’t turn on in the default kernel. Gotta remember which one actually works for them if I ever feel like using this laptop…
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Use old versions of software that doesn’t work, new versions of software that does work
Although it’s only fully possible in NixOS where the deps are not globally installed
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For Linux newbies, you can have both Arch and Ubuntu (or any 2+ of your favorite distro installed) by using different root partitions (16-32G) and sharing your home and other partitions.
Though it may work better if the distros you use have different desktop managers or the same desktop manager on the same major version number (KDE 3.x and 4.x settings don’t mix).
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