for some reason people in the comments got really triggered bc of this meme… i was just saying that when my screen flickers i need to update my Nvidia rtx drivers and the FNAF 3 screen looks kind of like a terminal

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      11 days ago

      Arch is just the most popular one where that would happen. Most distros don’t have that issue; it’s an artifact of the simplistic packaging that Arch uses.

      I don’t happen to know how Gentoo handles it, though

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        Arch package manager isn’t really simplistic? Maintainers can mitigate this easily, just goes counter arch philosophy.

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          They’ve been bolting on more complex use cases, but keeping packaging simplistic was their stated goal 20 years ago

          It’s not a bad thing, but missing modules for the running kernel on updates is one edge case new users might not expect