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Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.

I’m here for a good time, not a long time

Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me

Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.

By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.

i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?

Pfft.. it's been fine for the last 10 years.

I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.

Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don't think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn't responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I'm running.

Separate /home is such a scam. Never have I run out of home space, but boy is 27GB not enough for a root partition that runs any kind of service.

there are two types of computer users

1. those who make backup
2. those who never had a hard disk crash

I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem

My /home/$USER partition is on a separate disk. Me wicked smaht

meh, just backup home.

I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?

Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.

This is my setup that I have been using for years. I have never had a serious Linux update issue that could not be fixed.

to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.

Me with arch: what is timeshift? Time to updstr without backup, lol!

I'm rawdogging my Debian Unstable install

I will simply reinstall and forsake my files if it shits the bed catastrophically

Dotfiles in git my dude.

Edit: or even better chezmoi with dotfiles and ansible bootstrapping

Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I've been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.

Non-issue. I just scatter fragments of my data across so many devices that some version of something is bound to be somewhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

if it breaks, just fix it

what's a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in

never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about

This is me with endeavourOS lmao. Anything important is on my mega/Codeberg. If it dies it dies

ROFL Like, this was me on other distros just using ext4, no timeshift (made manual backups though, not as much as I should've). Now, I am understanding the hype with btrfs, Snapshots, as they have saved my ass so much. Using Garuda Linux, BTW! Sometimes a machine doesn't matter so much so...I lived life dangerously, and paid for a particularly low cost for it.

No sweat. I prefer to reinstall and start fresh every now and then anyway.

Arch has never "broken" on me through my 3 years of using it, but after a while weird issues would start to appear. Like for example my login manager just stopped working permanently and I had to do startplasma-wayland. Ssh agents also subtly broke. Stuff like that. I forgot to enable fstrim and my system freaked out during I/O eventually. These are all technically user error, but I don't feel like spending so much time on managing my operating system.

I ended up switching to Fedora and was pleasantly surprised how well it's setup by default.

Important files go to repos / backup disks. Workstations are sinners in the hands of an angry god.