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    [โ€“] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I don't know where my Linux journey takes me next yet, but I only half way agree with this post. Arch is not quite as bad as this post makes it out to be, but there's definitely always a bit of russian roulette involved in whether your system boots tomorrow or not (most of the time it does).
    I just had my EndeavourOS (which is just a thin layer on top of Arch) kill itself and some weird-ass hyperspecific flags in the initrd build process brought it back to life.
    Tho in the ~10 years of using arch now I'd say it was still preferable to the extremely stable experience, and I don't think recommending Debian Stable is such a good idea either.
    Yeah I could unfuck my EOS system with a bit of trickery, but once you get a good franken debian going, when that thing breaks there's no rescue.
    I've had some stuff on Arch break after an upgrade too because some config variable names changed. I rember when I had KDE with i3 going and one day the desktop was gone. Was just because the variable names in KDE had changed and a quick i3 config change was all that was needed.
    Having to selectively install packages from other sources because the main repo will keep you on a too outdated version for 6 months is just not a viable idea in today's world.

    There are luckily more than just these 2 options.

    [โ€“] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

    but once you get a good franken debian going, when that thing breaks thereโ€™s no rescue.

    I found that since Flatpak and Docker became a thing, there's really not much reason to do frankendebian nowadays. My desktop runs Debian oldstable and it's just fine.