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My Arch installation does break sometimes. I literally had a year-long issue where it turned out my old network card was incompatible with the kernel and the consequence was that a kernel panic would randomly come up almost daily without any kind of warning or error trace. Package updates sometimes do make my system unbootable, too.

However! That's very much what I was expecting when I chose Arch. If I didn't have the tech expertise/patience to deal with those issues, I wouldn't have chosen it in the first place. What I like about Arch is that I feel like everything is under my control and no problem comes out of nowhere. Except, maybe, I kinda don't like having to interact with the NVIDIA driver bullshit.

I replaced the network card and the kernel panics were gone. Whenever a package breaks my system I just downgrade it. It doesn't work flawlessly, but unlike Windows or Ubuntu, it's not actively fighting against me. I overall don't regret it. It's been my daily driver for 2.5 years now.