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0 pointsRinzler892y ago0 comments

>They deprecate their own hardware after about 5 years.

And people give Microsoft shit for not supporting Windows 10 more than 10 years when Apple only does 5.

>I use EndeavourOS on all my old Mac hardware and update without fear literally every couple of days

That's incredibly brave (or foolish) to have no fear of upgrading Arch, considering Arch does indeed break, it's not a question of IF, it's a question of WHEN.

Also had EndeavourOS for a while when I attempted to switch to Linux and, gave up on it when an update left me without sound. It's a great "batteries included" Arch distro, but can't tolerate such risks on a daily driver machine that I need it to work 100% of the time, every time.

For daily driving without update anxiety I'd go for something boring like Ubuntu/Debian based OSs, Fedora if you want more up-date, or even OpenSUSE if you want a sane rolling distro, but I'd stay away from Arch if you want your computer to just-work(TM) and don't wanna be your own part-time sys-admin.

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semi-extrinsic2y ago

Arch breaks extremely infrequently these days. I run it on >10 machines at work and home, some even in internal prod.

Rinzler89OP2y ago

How much are you willing to vouch for Arch? Will you give me $10k next time my Arch breaks at update?

semi-extrinsic2y ago

I'm not taking any bets on how you setup and maintain your particular Arch. Partial upgrades are unsupported etc. You can definitely shoot yourself in the foot with Arch, but after a while it becomes easy not to.

redeeman2y ago

i'll bite and take the action.. of course with an additional stipulation that you wield your wallet to all those daily driving osx that gets hit with this :)

pxeger12y ago

To be fair, with Arch, the more often you upgrade the less you have to fear - the migrations around breaking changes are normally pretty good.

Rinzler89OP2y ago

> the more often you upgrade the less you have to fear

Why? If an update is broken, then it will break your shit when you update to it no matter from where the starting point was. The destination is still a broken system.

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0 pointsRinzler892y ago0 comments

>They deprecate their own hardware after about 5 years.

And people give Microsoft shit for not supporting Windows 10 more than 10 years when Apple only does 5.

>I use EndeavourOS on all my old Mac hardware and update without fear literally every couple of days

That's incredibly brave (or foolish) to have no fear of upgrading Arch, considering Arch does indeed break, it's not a question of IF, it's a question of WHEN.

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semi-extrinsic2y ago

Arch breaks extremely infrequently these days. I run it on >10 machines at work and home, some even in internal prod.

Rinzler89OP2y ago

How much are you willing to vouch for Arch? Will you give me $10k next time my Arch breaks at update?

semi-extrinsic2y ago

redeeman2y ago

i'll bite and take the action.. of course with an additional stipulation that you wield your wallet to all those daily driving osx that gets hit with this :)

pxeger12y ago

To be fair, with Arch, the more often you upgrade the less you have to fear - the migrations around breaking changes are normally pretty good.

Rinzler89OP2y ago

> the more often you upgrade the less you have to fear

Why? If an update is broken, then it will break your shit when you update to it no matter from where the starting point was. The destination is still a broken system.

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