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bitwize 3 days ago

My experience is just the opposite: Linux requires more up-front tinkering, but once you get it into a shape you want, it tends to stay that way and get out of your way. Windows, by contrast, requires much more ongoing active maintenance, and previous releases were prone to simply shitting the bed without explanation or recourse. MacOS is better about this than Windows, but not as good as Linux.

Now if you're talking Arch Linux... sure. The Arch devs love yanking the carpet out from under you and then telling you "you should have read that forum post from a week ago if you didn't want your system to break". But other distros, like Slackware, Debian, and Void, are quite stable across updates.

tomsmeding 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Public service announcement: those "forum posts" are mailing list announcements. You can subscribe to that mailing list (arch-announce): https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/arch-announce.lis...

And it's almost always something you need to do at system upgrade time. It's not like your system doesn't boot all of a sudden.

bee_rider 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has Arch gotten much worse recently or something? When I used it they were pretty good about posting “manual intervention required” when needed on the front page of their site.

herbst 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not at all. Also usually when things break you can just Google and fix it within a few minutes.

It's not the hours of debugging why grub suddenly broke or X isn't starting anymore it was long ago.

WD-42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It hasn’t. I can’t remember a “rug pull” in the last 10 years. People forget arch packages are pretty much as close to upstream as you can get, the arch packagers tend to do as little as possible.

deafpolygon 3 days ago | parent [-]

A little warning message or update inside pacman would be a real nice QoL improvement.

abhinavk 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I surely love answering *Why I don't want to backup my files and settings to OneDrive" every few months OR Removing things like Edge Game Assist etc from autostarting.