2026-09-05 05:21 UTC
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@helix@feddit.org 2026-09-05 05:39
You know, that’s the thing, I personally find Arch easy and intuitive and don’t get where people get the idea that it breaks all the time from I’ve been using Arch since 2008 or 2010, idk. I find it easy and intuitive but I still managed to fuck it up multiple times by now. All of those major fuckups I can remember could probably have been solved by what you’re trying to do with Pu-239. List of major fuckups off the top of my head, chronologically: Once it had suddenly contracted some kind of computer AIDS which made the windows pink and caused other graphical errors. Never figured out why, a reinstall solved it. Another time I installed a bunch of packages without doing a full repo sync before (pacman -S instead of -Syu), which left the system in an inconsistent state. Had snapshots of the root partition I could roll back to. The third time happened only recently and made my desktop unusable for half a year because I couldn’t be bothered to fix the fucking bootloader. Huge update (4-5GiB in size, didn’t update for a few weeks or months even) slowed down the whole system due to btrfs having some exhausted inodes or sth, which made the system crash and the bootloader disappear. This even fucked up my firmware so for whatever reason the system can’t boot from /boot, only from the EFI system partition. My current workaround is copying the files from /boot to the ESP until I can be arsed to figure out the issue.
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@Sickday@kbin.earth 2026-09-05 14:21
I see. When I wrote that out it was more of a "Why would some one pick this over CachyOS or plain Arch?" and I think you've adequately answered that. I have NEVER had less issues with an OS ever since running Arch and/or CachyOS I can say the same, except I've never had a real issue with Arch in the 15(+) years I've known of it and used it. Every issue I've had with it was my own fault and was just part of learning of how package managers work. Nothing unique to Arch is inherently confusing or prone to user error in my opinion. But that's just my own bias. Good luck with this distro. My only bit of feedback is that distros with a bus-factor of 1 usually die out quickly (burn out is real). I would say if you're planning to have any support channels look into on-boarding some trustworthy comrades to assist you with this. Other than that wish you the best homie!