Made this on a whim, while commenting on that other recent Arch related post… the tamagochi one.

It’s been years since I actually used Arch. I hear much has changed (~ like it has an easy installer now?). Does it still itch to faceplant from time to time, needing rescue or abandon? Does Arch still faceplant itself?

How long have you managed to keep an arch going? How many times needing rescued back to being bootable in that duration?

[And would have posted this from that account, but that lemmy.wtf instance is tempramental, currently 504ing again. Glad I recently made this alt account so I can still post this and carry on with life.]

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    No recues in two years since I booted it the first time. Shit’s smooth on different hardware without any fiddling. Windows taught me good to be a bit more cautious and curious, so with a system that doesn’t explicitly fight me or wants to do thing behind my back, I feel way safer than before. Like, I started to regularly seek new updates via yay, it’s something you don’t hear from a windows boy. Minus one year on Mint that borked itself on update a couple of times, I had no previous Linux expirience.

    • Digit@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Windows taught me good to be a bit more cautious and curious

      Doesn’t it normally do the opposite for most people?

      feel way safer than before. Like, I started to regularly seek new updates via yay, it’s something you don’t hear from a windows boy.

      Yep, eager to upgrade, when it’s not stuffed down your throat when you don’t want.

      Could be telling us all something important about freedom… ;D

      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Windows taught me good to be a bit more cautious and curious

        Doesn’t it normally do the opposite for most people?

        Almost guaranteed it does, especially if you can throw money at the problem, but a combination of general annoyance && subpar hardware && wish to play heavier games and launch heavier apps has a diceroll chance of pushing a person into inspecting what’s going on under the hood. With w11 being itself and hardware prices skyrocketing, I hope many would get as angry as I am to get into that. Upgrading to a new laptop for the same price as the old one was never a worse decision that it is now.