Nah. We just know how to boot a broken system and fix it.
Arch has never “broken” on me through my 3 years of using it, but after a while weird issues would start to appear. Like for example my login manager just stopped working permanently and I had to do
startplasma-wayland. Ssh agents also subtly broke. Stuff like that. I forgot to enablefstrimand my system freaked out during I/O eventually. These are all technically user error, but I don’t feel like spending so much time on managing my operating system.I ended up switching to Fedora and was pleasantly surprised how well it’s setup by default.
Honestly agree, it’s always the little issues that are problems.
The problem with btrfs is no installer I’ve seen supports reusing an existing subvol for your home partition. Not that I can figure out at least.
Dotfiles in git my dude
dies
“Welp, time to distrohop.”
I check all these boxes. This install is ancient now. I moved the disk into a new PC (Intel/nvidia to amd/amd) and it didn’t even stutter.
I had issues in the past, sure, but nothing really severe. Archlinux.org frontpage has information on breaking updates if need be.
I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem
Same here, not sure what they on about.
I third this
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don’t think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn’t responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I’m running.
If you don’t count my 6 years with Manjarno, I’ve used Arch for ~7 years and only 3 times I had to fix something, 2 times because of Nvidia, once my fault. I had way more problems with Ubuntu in the past than Arch by the way. :)
There’s the argument to be made that all three were your fault, since you decided to use nvidia on Linux.
Hyuk hyuk hyuk.
Well, I also used ATI in the past but it was way worse. :)
This is still true but I find you are using bcachefs where every update is a death threat.
what’s a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in
never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about
Old man meme. It’s like saying “you need the command line for Linux!”
to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.
there are two types of computer users
- those who make backup
- those who never had a hard disk crash
- Everything is replaceable
- Assuming you do have a backup
I honestly can’t think of a thing I’d want to backup. Game saves, resumes, media. Its all replaceable and not worth backing up. I dont think I have a single “important” document or picture or anything.
It’s time saved rebuilding all of it
Or those who can fix it.
what are the cheap ways of setting up automatic backups?
Rsync and cron
yes, but to what medium
Whatever’s around. Some writable filesystem.
Decade running arch on a laptop w encrypted drives, the only fails were from powerdevil.
btrfs with pacman hook and i do backups semi reguralry (monthly + -)
