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.]

  • shira@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    My arch install is usually stable, the last issue I ran into was pretty recently, where it decided to build the initramfs without usb drivers, because I have a usb drive as my primary drive it then proceeded to be unable to boot due to that drive not being accessible.
    Before that it was running without issues and semi-frequent updates for 1.5 years tho

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        14 hours ago

        Cause stupidly, it’s faster

        I got a nice nvme drive back when they were pretty cheap, but my mainboard only has a Sata m.2 slot, which I neglected to check cause I just thought m.2 is m.2 at the time, so I got an external case and put it on a 10G usb c Port instead

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      1 day ago

      That sounds about typical for what I imagined.

      Thanks for the reply,

      right in the middle of my imagined bell curve of answers.