I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it’s my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won’t announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that’s not enough.

I’ve been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I’ve decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    01·
    3 months ago

    you just have to watch every news post for manual interventions before every update, oh, and you better update very often

    You have to watch the factory mailing list and make any manual interventions for Tumbleweed, and frankly, you should be watching the news and taking any action required no matter the os.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      2·
      3 months ago

      A decent daily driver distro for regular user should not break on blind update - at most, it should warn the user automatically before applying updates. If user is expected to check news every time they want to update their system - it is not a good fit for anyone but enthusiasts.

      • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
        0·
        3 months ago

        Where did you get the idea that Arch is a daily driver for regular user? The very distro that tells in big letters: stuff can break, you better watch out on updates? The very distro that has command-line install process with chroot-like commands as official one?

        • Allero@lemmy.today
          2·
          3 months ago

          Plenty of people seriously propose it as such.

          It is not - at least if you’re not an enthusiast happy to tinker with your system all the time.

          • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            Yup, it really is not. Those plenty of people are doing a big disservice to others with such proposing. I am sad to hear it

        • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          There are distros based on Arch that are proclaimed to be user friendly and ready for general desktop/gaming use. Plus plenty of people online tell others to use Arch as a daily driver.

          Regardless I don’t think an update should happen if it’s going to break something, unless you manually over ride the warnings it should be showing.

      • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        02·
        3 months ago

        Anyone who is not curious enough to type yay -Pw before typing yay should probably stick with something like Windows. And even then, you should watch out for the rare manual intervention.

        Edit: Tone.