Made this on a whim, while commenting on that other recent Arch related post… the tamagochi one.
It’s been years since I actually used Arch. I hear much has changed (~ like it has an easy installer now?). Does it still itch to faceplant from time to time, needing rescue or abandon? Does Arch still faceplant itself?
How long have you managed to keep an arch going? How many times needing rescued back to being bootable in that duration?
[And would have posted this from that account, but that lemmy.wtf instance is tempramental, currently 504ing again. Glad I recently made this alt account so I can still post this and carry on with life.]
I’ve really disliked gentoo because there always were so much unknowns and moving parts which no umount of reading and ‘intuition’ can predict. Gave up when package manager killed itself during update with no (obvious) way to make it run again fast. It was combination of python version upgrade and pm upgrade and it shit itself in a spectacular way where you can’t run it with ‘current’ version of python, can’t use older version due to it being managed by python scripts somehow dependent on pm (details aren’t all there it was like ten years ago). All of that when I really needed to install and run some package. Built everything from source and disliked gentoo ever since.