• scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.

    By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren’t made of arsenic, you’ll be fine.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I think it’s very much dependent on your hardware.

      I had some issues with my Nvidia drivers getting messed up when the card was relatively new. I haven’t had any issues in the past two years though.

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        3 days ago

        i think that sort of issues will no longer be relevant, considering that there are official semi-opensource nvidia-open drivers and that even wayland supports nvidia gpus just fine nowadays.

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      4 days ago

      I know people who’ve driven drunk for more than a decade, and only crashed when they were sober. Does that mean drinking and driving is safe?

      I literally had one of my devices fail to boot after an update pretty much every month, and another a few times a year. Sure, I was able to fix it with only arch-chroot, but when I switched to btrfs I didn’t need to carry around a flash drive with me when updating the system…

      The last few years I’m on nixos, and while it sometimes fails to update, it has not once failed to boot.

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        4 days ago

        Thats’s a really bad analogy

        One endangers others while the other makes a couple of files and photos go poof

        • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
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          4 days ago

          The danger and the stakes are not what is being compared, though. It’s a perfectly good analogy.