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    [–] DigDoug 55 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The "Arch breaks all the time" people have obviously never used Arch.

    I've run Arch as a daily driver for the last 4 and a half years and haven't had any issues. I've tried Pop_OS twice in that time and had install-breaking issues within a week in both cases.

    [–] BendyLemmy 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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    YMMV

    I run Manjaro with KDE on X11.... I use a lot of mouse gestures, so I can't sit with Wayland.

    • I found the SYSTEM is extremely stable for ME. It is important to say this every time...

    • I find KDE is often less stable... I had at least 2 issues I couldn't explain/understand and just fixed with restoring contents of .config from snapshots.

    This is one area where Manjaro 'held back' and did actually save us from a lot of the bleeding edge (5.26 was a rough ride)... but that's not an 'Arch' issue, that's a 'KDE' issue.

    But the USER likes to tip the boat until it does a barrel roll, or sinks entirely... and this is mostly what divides the happy users. Sometimes it's just basic hardware, sometimes it's the USER habits/modus operandi.

    So we have Snapshots, and we have rsync backups to a mounted drive.... Then it matters not - a quick restart fixes most issues, and a reinstall takes only 6 minutes with no data lost -> in backups.

    That's stable enough for me.

    BTW, I use AUR quite a lot - and it never actually caused me an issue, other than some stuff needing rebuilds.

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