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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Arch. Minimal, fast, rolling and it doesn't break. Plus, the AUR and the Wiki are unvaluable.

Had been on: RedHat (199something), Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and Debian before.

[–] OofShoot@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I thought Arch was notorious for breaking all the time? Is that a specific version of Arch?

[–] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 9 months ago

This is a misconception. Arch breaks only if you mess enough with AUR. If you keep with official repo and maybe Flatpaks, you'll be fine

You can use AUR with moderation as well and you'll still be fine

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Dunno, during 8ish years I have only hada couple of minimal problems due to updates (and the solution was promptly available on Arch homepage). Can't speak for other, though.

[–] ducking_donuts@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

That’s not my experience - have been using arch for around four years and it broke only once by not letting me log into the system after I failed to update pam configs after the system upgrade.

[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

We're using Arch 2

(No it doesn't, it just has some bugs here and there, e.g. my media keys don't work after a couple days of uptime (gnome). I stopped actively looking for and reading the release notes years ago as it just works... and if it doesn't, I still have a btrfs snapshot from before the update)

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried Manjaro for awhile and had some major system breaks. Manjaro is/was often pitched as newbie-friendly arch, so having it break made me think arch was going to be even worse.

Been running endeavour for a few years now though, and haven't had any real issues. Much smoother than my Manjaro experience.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Agree about manjaro they doing really weird things about their system and it's breaking.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Oh I completely forgot about RedHat! Yes, that was my first one too. Then Ubuntu was kinda the thing to go to and it worked for a good while until it just didn't work for me anymore.

Today I'm on Mint because it was the first distro I tried that was able to get the Wifi working on my super old/bad HP Laptop. I started to like it and then also moved to Mint on my desktop. Running it for a year now and since my PC isn't the youngest anymore, I doubt I will switch distro again anytime soon.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

unvaluable

You've edited this post and left this in (or added it!?) so I suppose you mean it!

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just made a mistake, sorry :-P English us not my first language.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I was just joking; it's clearly a typo and I don't think anyone misunderstood (or maybe even noticed).

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

No problem, man ;-) I didn't take it as an offense. Have a nice day!