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I love Arch and keep it on an old i3 laptop that I use despite having a Core i7 laptop. But for my actual daily desktop computer I use Pop. I don't like being in the middle of some big project and then realizing I need to stop and spend an hour installing some missing package to continue with my project. Pop simplifies all of that, even though it doesn't provide the same sense of accomplishment and old-school computing that I get by using Arch.
I'm tempted to go back, but man, something always breaks, and it's never anything cool, it's always something backwards ass random library for font layout or some shit, and everything just falls on the floor.
But I think I need at least a good arch environment for gaming, debian blows on that regard. I just can't afford to lose my system for half a day because something breaks, if it's a kernel issue I can fix it myself, but not if it's dll layer 8 for the stack used to format yaml files for postscript printing which somehow means all my text editors get linker errors now.
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.
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.