As much as I enjoy the memes of arch being a pain to keep alive, as long as you’re not doing crazy shit and you keep an eye on the docs it’s easy to keep going. I’ve had the same install for over 5 years on my laptop with no issues.
You have to keep an eye on the docs? WTF? I just want to use my PC, not constantly watch out for impending doom from running an update on the wrong day.
Then don’t run arch? Arch is meant for a certain type of user, not all users. That the advantage of Linux distros over something like Mac or Windows.
Then I guess the meme is right. That’s all I was saying.
The meme is an extreme exaggeration, reading the wiki for a couple minutes a week doesn’t make your system meaninglfully less productive.
Hating on Arch because it’s not your bag is just weird. It’s like getting angry at the condiment aisle because you don’t like mustard.
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
In this thread: IT nerds with no sense of humor.
Granted, this probably hasn’t been reality for like… A decade, but it’s pretty funny
I’ve been using Arch since I decided to go full-time Linux a year ago, and it’s really not that much work compared to when I tested out Fedora. I run pacman -Syu when I remember to, about twice a week. I update the occasional packages on the AUR once a week. I’ve never had a single broken dependency. Never had to fix graphics drivers (AMD on Wayland, so I can’t say the same about NVIDIA). I don’t even look at the wiki for 99% of the packages I’ve installed. This is definitely made by someone who hasn’t used an Arch-based distro for more than a day.
I use Mint. I don’t do anything to it. I don’t remember when I installed it, it’s been so long. It just keeps updating.
I’m probably doing it wrong. I don’t know what pacman is.
Have you done a major version upgrade ever? That’s usually the only downside to stable distros, though Mint tends to manage them better than Debian and probably a few others I could think of.
Pacman is the PACkage MANager (lol get it?) for Arch based distros. It would be apt for you. Or, you know, just Mint’s graphical app store + update manager which I have never seen a reason to not use.
I’ve been running CachyOS for a couple years, had a similar experience. There was one time in all of that where something actually broke, and I had to look up how to use my snapshots that I set up a year before and forgot about. That’s been it. Was running Mint before that, not too different (aside from newer versions of apps in the repository, which is why I switched).
I started with Omarchy last March, because I was affraid Arch was too much, but it sounded so nice. So I started with Omarchy,because it was easy to start with. Now I’ve seen that it is not actually that scary, I might switch to Arch and not use the dhh distro. I might reuse some config files though.
Dropping the system developed by a raging nazi racist is probably a good idea too!
The what now?
Omarchy is a product of David Heinemeier Hansson, who calls for, among other things, the mass deportation of non white folk from Europe and “Western Nations” in general. He’s also transphobic, but that’s a much smaller part of his catalogue of hate than his racism.
Why can’t FOSS devs be normal? ToT
Anyone remembers ReiserFS?
honestly Arch isn’t scary to install anymore. Archinstall makes it incredibly easy.
I learned that as well. But Arch has an image of being super high maintenance and hard to install, like compiling linux back in the day. Totally invalid image, but it still persists. Anyways, I’m gonna try archinstall in my summer vacation.
This person hasn’t used Arch since 2011 but at least it hasn’t hindered their self superiority.
I thought it was a funny joke
