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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This is exciting! Can't wait to kill my install by trying to upgrade!

[–] muhyb 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean you don't really use Arch if you don't bork it once in a while. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That’s a very pleasant word for a horrible experience I keep doing to myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

NVidia borks my installation sometimes. Then my stupidity to choose the non-dkms beta driver from the AUR. But all in all, my non-NVidia-devices (server, workstation and laptop) run fine on arch testing, updated every time I use one of those devices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You can run pacman on Windows?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s called Ms. PacMan over there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

yes (msys2) except it will never bork your windows install unlike on arch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kinda. One of the Linux "wrappers" (I'm a bit tired and can't think of the correct term here, bear with me) that lets you utilize some Linux utilities on Windows, maybe it was mingw or cygwin, actually uses pacman as their package manager IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yep that's the one, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If anything, i would expect packagekit frontends to break. If you use pacman as intended, you’ll be just fine