But with Arch you have to pay attention whenever you update or else you brick your whole system. Ask me how I know.
I’ve decided it’s not worth my time trying to figure it out. I just use KDE Neon and press the “check for updates” button. Don’t get me wrong - I know my way around a terminal - but honestly it’s just not worth my time anymore. Just give me a thing that works without me needing to think about it.
This. I still daily drive arch, and, even though I’ve rarely had any breaking updates, it’s always feels like a gamble. Have to keep a mental note of which critical packages are being updated, just in case I have to rollback the package. Always carrying an install medium with an arch iso when taking my laptop out.
I’ve only used Manjaro a little bit but isn’t it the case the Manjaro holds back updates before rolling them out, thereby messing with stuff if you use the AUR?
My take is they’re a little more cautious than full Arch. Arch will just push stuff because it’s “ready”, Manjaro does at least some testing so I’m not the guinea pig.
I don’t have any issues with AUR stuff though, everything pretty much works out of the box.
But with Arch you have to pay attention whenever you update or else you brick your whole system. Ask me how I know.
I’ve decided it’s not worth my time trying to figure it out. I just use KDE Neon and press the “check for updates” button. Don’t get me wrong - I know my way around a terminal - but honestly it’s just not worth my time anymore. Just give me a thing that works without me needing to think about it.
This. I still daily drive arch, and, even though I’ve rarely had any breaking updates, it’s always feels like a gamble. Have to keep a mental note of which critical packages are being updated, just in case I have to rollback the package. Always carrying an install medium with an arch iso when taking my laptop out.
I abandoned ubuntu for that very same experience, found your Ubuntu zen on manjaro instead. Funny how it goes sometimes.
I’ve only used Manjaro a little bit but isn’t it the case the Manjaro holds back updates before rolling them out, thereby messing with stuff if you use the AUR?
My take is they’re a little more cautious than full Arch. Arch will just push stuff because it’s “ready”, Manjaro does at least some testing so I’m not the guinea pig.
I don’t have any issues with AUR stuff though, everything pretty much works out of the box.