people laughed at me for choosing debian. they asked why i chose to have ancient runes running in my computer
who’s laughing now?
To be fair, arch could look like that after a few days.
NixOS is like that every day for no reason
Oh, you updated one byte in your config? Better download the entire ducking Internet and rebuild everything!
staging rebuild cycles only happen every two weeks or so.
The reason is always that something changed and causes all dependent packages to change, requiring a rebuild of those too.
It is arch
It looks like it’s Debian’s logo in the bottom left and that that’s
aptoutput.EDIT Nope, that’s
pacmanoutput, seems like they ssh’d into another arch-machine.
Read the Arch news before clicking “yes”.
I have Informant installed for this. Saved my hide a few times.
I have an Arch laptop that I didn’t update for 3.5 years. The system update took a while when I finally went through with it. Amazingly it didn’t break anything!
Yes, I am amazed that quite a few people in this thread are saying they ‘had to completely reinstall the os’ and that it broke everything after not much time. As long as one doesn’t rely on the AUR for system critical packages or much in generel, it is incredibly hard to break an Arch system (Manjaro and other Arch-based distros don’t count). This is due in part to Arch being quite reproducible but it also having very good maintainership.
It doesn’t hurt to apply new package configs by going throughpacdiffonce in a while though.Edit: Typo
Manjaro and other Arch-based distros don’t count
I think this has a lot to do with it. I have seen people say they use Arch before and then find out they’re using a derivative.
I ran a base-Arch with i3 before, I got tired of restoring backups and fixing things and went back to Debian. It broke too quickly by its defaults in my experience.
