As an Arch user, whatever suits you.
I installed Arch on my ThinkPad because.............................................................................................. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh.................... I had an Arch sticker and I felt like I couldn’t use it if I didn’t use Arch.
Everyone has some reasons for their favorite distro.
I use Arch, and I have an OpenSUSE wallpaper.
Before this, I used Mint and had an Arch wallpaper…
I live to offend.
I don’t think I’ve seen this meme format before but it’s fucking hilarious. I love that kid’s stance while hitting the bowl, he’s ready for action.
how have you not seen it ? it’s been around for ages !
but I agree, it’s freakin hilarious
I’m too lazy to maintain an Arch install, so it’s Mint for me. Long live Mint unironically.
Mint is one of the best versions of Ubuntu you could possibly use. They give you Ubuntu without all the forced snaps and other crap.
Fair enough, but Mint gives you the more up to date base of Ubuntu and some QoL tools that Debian doesn’t have. If you prefer Debian, then use it. I just feel Mint is better for beginners or people who want an easier time with less tinkering.
Running yay every other day is all the maintenance I do on my arch installation.
Exactly. My wife is a teacher and she runs Arch daily, knowing only how to run yay.
When I tried Arch in '23, it worked well. Then I got busy and lazy and didn’t use it for 2-3 months. When I came back and did yay -sYu as I had learned, dozens of KDE and core packages were throwing errors and wouldn’t update. Unfortunate.
You gotta read what yay is telling you…
🫣error come with a text for a reason!
And if so, I can’t for the life of me Invision how it’s harder on Arch than on the Ubuntu or its derivatives.
Arch maintenance: 0. Install it once. (The proper way)
- Every 2 weeks minimum
pacman -Syu - Every 3 months merge/update configs in /etc.
I don’t get what is with this so hard? Yes, configs can be undecipherable but 90% time the merge involves just deleting the .pacnew versions.
The problem is that other 10% where I have to spend my time trawling the arch wiki to fix my OS instead of like… doing cool things on my computer. If that’s what you enjoy that’s great, but your hobby is not my hobby. I’ve used arch on several of my devices, it can be great! But there’s this idea that arch is the perfect solution to pretty much everyone’s desktop problems and it’s crazymaking to see repeated over and over on here.
Running pacman every two weeks seems like a bad idea if you have a lot of packages… The dependencies can get dicey if you have to update too many at once.
Well I meant two weeks is the longest period i can leave the system without updating and have no problems. And i have yet to break it with 300 pkgs updating at once.
On EndavourOS here, I spent hours upon install tinkering and setting everything like I wanted and forgot most of what I did ever since.
I’m so lazy I use a one word alias to update all my stuff in one go. I rarely have to bother myself reading and checking if everything’s fine (I still do it from time to time just to be safe but I do it less and less because it’s almost useless)… I even update a bit late sometimes and quite randomly in general.
It’s been almost 4 years like this now, nothing ever broke, had an issue with an Aur only once…never even had to tinker with anything.
I remember having harder times with Ubuntu or Manjaro like a decade ago…even had freaking issues with Mint, it’s crazy.
*hear
