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    [–] avapa 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    It's the trade off of having a mostly bleeding edge operating system. It's part of the reason why I wouldn't recommend Arch to beginners. While pretty rare, some update will eventually break part of your OS or cause other (often minor) issues and you should be knowledgeable enough/willing to look up the offending package and roll it back. It's up to the user to decide whether Arch's pros (massive software availability through official repos and the AUR, DIY approach, up-to-date packages) outweigh its cons.

    As @[email protected] said (I can't tell if jokingly or not - lol), it is somewhat expected that an Arch user checks the Latest News section on archlinux.org before updating their system. Though I might add, I usually don't bother.

    [–] erev 2 points 2 years ago

    You can use the informant package to automatically check it for you, although this tends to break on mew releases of major Python version (i.e. the kerfuffle when moving from Python 3.10 -> Python 3.11). If you use paru as your AUR helper, there's a config flag to automatically check the Arch news in every update. Otherwise, I can recommend using RSS for this as it's really easy and nice to have newsboat open and automatically pullung in news updates while checking ither RSS feeds.