• Titou@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Never had any issues with Arch and im not the only one. If your system is unstable, it’s your fault, point to the line.

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      1 year ago

      Now look, that isn’t true. While yes, the maintenance of your system is entirely up to you, you cannot help it when a bug comes from an update. Typically if you stay away from the git versions of software, you should be fine, but library updates break stuff all the time, all it takes is that one piece of software that you use to not be compatible with an update and you’re out. Yes you could downgrade that package, but what if something else you uses requires that updated package? Then you’re downgrading that. Next thing you know, 30 libraries have to be downgraded because they changed the way their syscalls work and that software cannot make use of the libraries the way they are.

      I prefer using arch and I don’t have any problem doing any of this stuff (I approach software the suckless way save for a file manager), but I can see why a lot of people look elsewhere for their distro of choice.

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        1 year ago

        bugs is something that can happen when you build your system yourself

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          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t really call arch a system you build yourself, as that would imply you are building every package from source including the base packages. Stage 3 Gentoo is IMO the bare minimum.

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            1 year ago

            it’s a diy distro, even if you use pre-compiled packages you’re technically building your system yourself

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      1 year ago

      Meh, kinda depends. Most issues I’ve had with Arch are related to bugs with apps rather than system breakage (looking at you early Plasma). Overall Arch is stable and issues are resolved quickly, though sometimes you may need to avoid major software releases for a while.

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        1 year ago

        never said Arch was perfect, boths are diy & great distros, the only bad thing i could mention about gentoo is portage being written in Python

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        1 year ago

        That isn’t saying much. I’d say gentoo honestly has better system stability than even Debian if you know how to properly set up your system