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nuclear take: (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Also have a copy of pacman-static somewhere so that you can fix your shit in case of a partial upgrade (and trust me, it can go horribly wrong)

Oh I know, I quickly learned to never update it without having live media nearby to arch-chroot with.

if you make your arch system unable to boot..... Don't use arch

The only thing I did to make it unbootable is to update it. Going by that logic nobody should use it.

This is not my attempt at elitism. Arch was never meant to be a hassle free distro and it sure as shit is not one.

I definitely agree, that's why I'm commenting against dumbasses suggesting it to beginners. Especially when they glorify AUR.

Can I offer you a Debian in these trying times?

No need, I already landed on MX + nix after 2+ years of arch. Nix unstable gives me all of the benefits of arch (except for the DE) and then plenty more on top. Different downsides, but far less stressful. I'm

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

You need to keep the update log and go through the whole thing and see if something needs reconfiguring. Sounds shitty? Yeah, that's why I stopped using Arch and Gentoo despite being a veteran

Nowadays I just install Debian or some derivative and call it a damn day. Unless you need some exotic setup (and those are more suited to Gentoo or Slackware anyway)

[–] Shareni 1 points 4 months ago

Oh I had a far simpler method: update and it fails to boot? Rollback and try updating again in a week. It usually works then, but I had to wait a bit more a couple of times.

The only exception was that bad GRUB release. I think that's the only update fail that absolutely required arch-chroot.