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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not much has changed (also Arch always had an installer one way or another πŸ™ƒ). I've managed to keep it going till the machine wasn't needed. Rescue boot was needed like 5-6 times over 15 years, I think. Most problems with Arch come from being hasty or not being able to read. One of the harder and more involved processes and problems to solve was updating 6 years old abandoned install, took a few hours, because arch archive is pretty slow sometimes.

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    I've really disliked gentoo because there always were so much unknowns and moving parts which no umount of reading and 'intuition' can predict. Gave up when package manager killed itself during update with no (obvious) way to make it run again fast. It was combination of python version upgrade and pm upgrade and it shit itself in a spectacular way where you can't run it with 'current' version of python, can't use older version due to it being managed by python scripts somehow dependent on pm (details aren't all there it was like ten years ago). All of that when I really needed to install and run some package. Built everything from source and disliked gentoo ever since.

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