Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.
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Iβm here for a good time, not a long time
Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me
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i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?
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Pfft.. it's been fine for the last 10 years.
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Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.
By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.
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I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.
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there are two types of computer users
- those who make backup
- those who never had a hard disk crash
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my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...
what are yall doing to brick your machines?
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I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem
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My /home/$USER partition is on a separate disk. Me wicked smaht
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I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?
Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.
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I'm rawdogging my Debian Unstable install
*BTRFS users when you don't rebalance soon enough and run out of inodes so you can't boot your computer
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meh, just backup home.
This is my setup that I have been using for years. I have never had a serious Linux update issue that could not be fixed.
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to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.
Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I've been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.
I will simply reinstall and forsake my files if it shits the bed catastrophically
Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.
what's a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in
never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about
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