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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A fully functional system, just like any other normal OS?

You hit update - boom - you get one, seamlessly, with no breakages and no other user interaction. And that's how it works pretty much everywhere - except, you know, Arch.

If you're fine with it - that's fine, go ahead and tinker all you like. But don't expect others to have the same priorities.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah just like the FORCED Microsoft updates that broke like hundreds of businesses?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-reimburses-travel-agency-for-forced-Windows-10-update-damages.168378.0.html

Dude go touch some grass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Man that's news from 2016, like, it's a bit rare occasion, y'know. You're way more likely to get borked by Arch even after reading all the instructions, and it did happen numerous times.

Touching grass is what I do when you take steps to intervene in your system to make an update work.

I see you are an Arch maximalist, but that goes beyond reason. Even Arch proponents are normally not as aggressive on the topic, and admit Arch is too complicated in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're just going to shift goalposts every time I'll post something.

Not recent enough. Not enough cases. That's different.

And lastly you'll just claim I do it because I'm an arch maximalist, despite not knowing anything about me :)