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Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 week ago by makeitwonderful@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it's my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won't announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that's not enough.

I've been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I've decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

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[–] mio@lemmy.mio19.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about NixOS unstable?

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[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

NixOS might not be for you, it is horrible if you don't want to adapt to it. But if this happened on NixOS, you would just reboot into the state of your computer before you ran the update. Or if it's just a program like VLC you could just close VLC switch to the previous generation and open VLC again

[–] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean it's not your fault, btw sudo downgrade vlc then reboot and uninstall vlc and install the required vlc plugins

[–] makeitwonderful@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luckily just installing the plugins worked. Thank you for offering advice.

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[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe it's me, but while you have outlined the events that got you to this point, I don't understand either the 'attitude' you find problematic or what it is about Arch you would hope to find elsewhere. Hard to make a recommendation without those.

[–] makeitwonderful@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're right, I was leaning heavily on the events to give context for defining the attitude (maybe policy would be a less loaded word for me to use). I don't like the expectation that I would have to look for information in multiple places before updating. I'd prefer to be able to update often without needing to take in a lot of information.

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why I do not use a rolling release distro.

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

LMDE. Debian stability with the usability of mint. It works.... That's it. No gimmicks.

[–] kman@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Rocky or AlmaLinux

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