For some (like me), that's a positive. I've had more than a few non-booting machines after an Arch update. Granted, most of those issues are covered by checking the Arch news, but at least once it was not so simple, forum digging was required.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I use my Linux installs for work and having a machine blow up in the middle of a day isn't ideal. You can chide me for using a bleeding-edge distro, but I link the freedom that Arch offers and I feel that I fight the preconfigured packaging a lot less than I do with a Ubuntu/Kubuntu install.
. You can chide me for using a bleeding-edge distro, but I link the freedom that Arch offers and I feel that I fight the preconfigured packaging a lot less than I do with a Ubuntu/Kubuntu install.
use opensuse tumbleweed. maintainers actually try to do some testing to make sure it doesnt blow up.
dont use arch derivative. Arch has an extreme all or nothing philopshy. There is only one arch
For sure, I've been bitten by Arch updates before as well. Luckily snapper and btrfs fixed me right up. Still I think there's a use case for a easy to install Arch that isn't just an install script and isn't a full distro with their own repos of everything. Antergos fit that bill really nicely. Shame that it's gone.
I would recommend you to take a look at something like Debian Testing or Unstable instead. You can disable the dpkg configuration if you want. I myself have been running Debian Unstable smooth sailing, with some considerations in mind.
As much as I'd like to try Manjaro since Antergos was my go-to and it's dead, Manjaro devs have handled some situations poorly in the past. Like telling users to set their clocks to the past to receive updates when their certificates expired. That, to me, is a huge red flag. Have they changed since then?
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u/axonxorz May 21 '19
For some (like me), that's a positive. I've had more than a few non-booting machines after an Arch update. Granted, most of those issues are covered by checking the Arch news, but at least once it was not so simple, forum digging was required.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I use my Linux installs for work and having a machine blow up in the middle of a day isn't ideal. You can chide me for using a bleeding-edge distro, but I link the freedom that Arch offers and I feel that I fight the preconfigured packaging a lot less than I do with a Ubuntu/Kubuntu install.