Please understand that I haven’t tried or installed Arch Linux yet. From what I understand by reading and watching related videos, Arch is often breaks and a lot of time is required to fix issues. But I have also read comments from arch users who claim that arch has only crashed or caused them problems only a couple of times in a year.

Wouldn’t a stable or non rolling release distro be a great choice for the Steam Deck?? Also, how frequently do the packages get updated on steam os?

  • papafoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Arch is actually really stable if you keep it updated. Where it gets ya is if you don’t update it for a couple months or longer.

      • VictoriaEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        don’t use yy, it puts unnecessary strain on the mirrors to serve you unchanged package lists. a single y will work just fine, and only pull a new package list if it has actually changed

    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This has been my exact experience in the 8 years I’ve been using it as my desktop OS. Boot into windows to play some game I can’t get working, beat it a month later, come back and I need to get my boxing gloves out to use my computer again

    • halfwaythere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Please explain this to me. It is stable till it’s not? What happens during that time that makes arch no longer stable?

      • papafoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        If you go a long time without updating there are generally lots of updates. So when you update sometimes you can have dependency issues. Basic maintenance prevents this.

        Personally I never have this issue and generally don’t have any issues with Arch. Truly have no idea why people think it’s unstable. Maybe bad experiences with Manjaro which is Arch based. Now that distro has stability issues! Garuda and vanilla arch have been rock solid as far as my experience goes.

        • halfwaythere@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Have a project that I may have to go donw this route. Haven’t touched Arch in many years so I’d figure it be more “stable”. Didn’t know if there were inherent issues. Doesn’t sound like there is just basic maintenance. Thanks for explaining.