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I use arch, btw :3

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

The thing is… arch…. You can actually fix. Most times.

Unlike the proverbial him.

(Not that you should have to.)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

(yeah, you dont have to fix anyone. just reinstall them)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

How do you reinstall a human?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

take usb drive
install arch on it
insert usb drive in human
install

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

usb drive is penis isn't it?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

what

no you just insert the usb drive into one of the person's orifices

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Please don't stick a thumbdrive into my penis.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

oh don't worry i'm not into sounding

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

Highly accurate, but, even if you fix him...An update will break him, as Arch Linux moves fast as hell!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

That's the neat part, if anything's broken, just update, it's probably fixed in a next version already. Then, when you find what broke on the last update, just update again, it'll be fixed by then.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Possibly, but in the few years I have spent with it, it has only done that once (got a kernel panic on reboot). Managed to diagnose and fix the problem in around 10 mins without the help of the internet.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Last time I saw kernel panic on Debian and that was more than a decade ago.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

In my time of using Linux, to my knowledge, I can't recall a kernel panic. I've had my boot record break, graphics drivers simply not want to load (that was fixable, just annoying), or GNOME Display Manager crashout hard related to a memory leak. I use Ubuntu and Fedora KDE these days, at most there is an occasional bug that doesn't cause major issues. Just little annoyances that can be solved with an upcoming update or using the terminal.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's the thing, just because there is a breakage doesn't mean there isn't a way to fix it. It just becomes a cycle of breakage and repair...Arch goes through cycles of being temporarily broken and back to working just fine. This is merely the nature of rolling release (part of the reason why I am not a rolling release distro).

Naturally, if one has the skill to fix Arch, it would be of no real concern. It might be annoying, but it seems that you can overcome those temporary disruptions caused by introduced bugs

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose, but again, I would hardly call it a cycle of breakages, after all, that was the one lone time anything major broke (blatant user error aside). In small cases where things do break (non-critical) it is sort of assumed that the people using arch will have a certain level of competence in diagnosing and fixing even minor issues. Though I will admit, that is partially less relevent now, with the introduction of archinstall, and distros such as EndeavourOS.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

EndeavourOS, CachyOS, and archinstall do lower the barrier to entry for Arch itself, which means that there may be really fresh users (who should probably not be on Arch) using it. As wild as it sounds, those Arch and its distros get recommended to new users that aren't technically inclined.

For the seasoned Arch users, non-critical breaks don't feel as serious, since they can fix him. It's just the new users wandering in a dark place without light (a place they shouldn't be encouraged to wander, without knowledge), that these problems are serious or can be made worse by said user misunderstanding how to apply fixes. Or prevent issues in the future.

I agree that there are likely very few serious breakages not caused by a user happening on Arch, just the potential of them happening (anything made by human hands occasionally will suffer this).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I agree.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

not many read the arch linux news, causing such breakage to happen ._.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

After a year there's only something about linux-firmware requiring manual intervention.

I thought I wasn't reading the news in correct place. Manjaro had update snapshot discussion threads, and usually there were things to fix manually. Usually just minor things.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

People who have a favourite pencil.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wow way to make assumptions huh

It's a fountain pen

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Pentel Graphgear 1000 is my favorite mechanical pencil, and my favorite Linux distro is NixOS... hm

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Serial killers

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

People who are into BDSM

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Linux is my personality."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

People who have more than one computer

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Phil Connors

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's the other way around, arch can fix me

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

i use mint btw

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Arch broke me... But now i cant change the distro... ^^

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I use Alpine Linux, btw.

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