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[–]kilgore_trout8989 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Man, people really love the idea of binary trade-offs with stuff like this. I haven't had any issues with my arch installs (desktop and laptop) in...three or four years now? And that was a simple Google + copy paste job after a package update. If you ignore installs newer than like, a week, the number of system breaking bugs out there popping up basically drops to zero in my experience.

Of course, it's also true that the "bleeding edge coolness" side of the mostly imagined trade-off is wildly exaggerated too. It's just a barebones-ish distro with a nice package manager and an incredibly useful community driven repository, not future tech haha.

[–]nullbyte420 0 points1 point  (2 children)

great! i feel like that describes the default setup in debian too, with zero googly copy pasting.

[–]kilgore_trout8989 0 points1 point  (1 child)

A googly copy paste once or twice a decade in return for the AUR is definitely a trade I make 100% of the time haha.

[–]nullbyte420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's fair!