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Lol

I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every one of 4 remaining drives will hold up well even after one clearly failed.

I've witnessed many people losing their data this way, even among prominent tech folks (looking at you, LTT).

RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you're gonna lose quite a bit more space (leaving 24TB vs 32TB), but added reliability and peace of mind are priceless.

(And, in any case, make backups for anything critical! RAID is not a backup!)

Actually it's sort of scientific consensus. Not that it matters much for casual conversation (do not fuck minors, what's so hard about that), but the distinction is real.

obligatory nerdy note that all those -philias refer to attraction, and not action; pedophile might not abuse children but still be pedophile; child abuser is not necessarily pedophile

Hold my beer, it's even more complicated

• Infantophiles go for 0-5 (up until developed consciousness)
• Pedophiles ~6-beginning of puberty
• Hebephiles - going through puberty
• Ephebophiles - after puberty but before adulthood
• Teleiophiles - 18-late 30s
• Mesophiles - 40s-60s
• Gerontophiles - 70+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronophilia

Don't ask me why I know, I just like getting to the grit of things.

True!

Although, as another commenter pointed out, this will use Packman repo which is not official and apps there are not going through the same testing as in official repos.

So Flatpak is generally a better option. Still, if you want VLC as a native package, opi is indeed an easy and reliable option.

Fair point! Honestly, that's exactly what I ultimately went for, I just know there are people around who strongly prefer native packages.

Flatpak contains all codecs etc., and works flawlessly.

Nice to know!

Guess we simply apply different meaning to the word "stable". (you do you, though, and if it's alright with your workflow, yay!)

To me, stable means reliably working without any special maintenance. Arch requires you to update once in a while (otherwise your next update might get borked), and when you update, you may have to resolve conflicts and do manual interventions.

Right now, I run OpenSUSE Slowroll (beta, not released yet) on one of my machines and EndeavourOS on the other. The former recently had to update 1460 elements, and one intervention was required - package manager asked me if I want to hold one package for a while to avoid potential dependency issues. Later, it was fixed, and otherwise it went without a hitch. This is the worst behavior I've seen on this distribution, and so to me it renders "acceptably unstable" for general use (although I wouldn't give that to my grandma).

Nowadays Mint is practically the default newbie distro.

I would also recommend against immutables, since you seem to be a knowledgeable user. Immutable distros are severely limiting, some programs may not work at all, and in other places you'll have to go through a lot of unnecessary hoops.

What I've learned with immutables is that you can do all that on a regular system, with added flexibility of installing packages the normal way if you need it. Just go with Flatpaks whenever possible, use Distrobox when not, and you'll be golden. Should some need arise for a regular install of something or some tweak in system files - you would still be able to do so.

Honestly, what I went for after my experiments is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - it's bleeding edge, but also very stable and predictable, and if you set up volume as btrfs, it features well-preconfigured snapper to revert any mistakes you may make along the way.

You will get all the maintenance headache of Arch in a nice looking package. Absolutely not what OP asks for.

Arch is never "set it and forget it".

Plenty of people seriously propose it as such.

It is not - at least if you're not an enthusiast happy to tinker with your system all the time.

I'd say one issue in 8 years is a stellar track record!

But I agree they should have warned users a better way.

Anyway, I like how btrfs is treated within Tumbleweed - snapper is fully configured and enabled by default, and you can load a snapshot and rollback into it from the boot menu - all that would take you less than a minute, and any faulty update will be gone for good. With ext4, though, you might need Timeshift. But then, all that can be done within Arch with just a few more tweaks!