I have been using Linux for a few years, usually some flavor of Debian. But recently I acquired an older Thinkpad and thought it would behoove me to use something more… involved.
So I chose to dive into Manjaro and only broke pacman once. So now the question… can I say I’m using Arch btw or is that a faux pas?

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Don’t update any arch based distro for long enough and your life will be plenty exciting when you do. Bonus points if you use a non-lts kernel that can blip out of existence at any moment along with all the graphics drivers

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How long is to long? I’ve been running the same arch install for a few years and wondering if it supposed to be time for a reinstall?

*I also have backups of all my configs and read the arch news before updating so I’m not really that worried.

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Are you not updating it regularly? They said, “Don’t update for long enough…”

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…oh, yeah I miss read that. I took it as don’t use arch for to long without reinstalling rather than don’t not update for too long. I update about once a week.

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I learnt this the hard way when I worked out my shutdown script that did this automatically had stopped working :P

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I use Arch btw


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