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0 pointsseba_dos12y ago0 comments

> Breaking package changes that was my fault since I didn't keep up with the forums.

That's explicitly part of the contract between users and maintainers you accept when running Arch and it has nothing to do with it being a rolling release. Many other rolling releases like Debian or OpenSUSE set completely different expectations to their users.

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bjoli2y ago

Yes of course. But that is not the picture painted by many online. How often haven't you read "Arch has been rock solid"?

This is not what the arch homepage says, which explicitly says that it is not the job of the distro to ensure compatibility between updates.

seba_dos1OP2y ago

In my experience Arch has been pretty solid indeed (not as solid as, say, Debian sid, but close enough), but that assumes that you do read the news pages before upgrading and that you know how to deal with AUR well. Otherwise it's not Arch's fault when it breaks :P

kjs32y ago

Indeed. "You should just run Arch" is giving "just rewrite everything in Rust" a run for it's money, especially since the "Mill will solve all of those pesky CS problems" folks have gone quiet.

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