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Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu
(fd93.me)
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I have been on arch professionally for ~5 years.
I am a GUI fan and I don't like fucking around with the OS. In fact, I don't even want to think about it at all.
So far it hardly required any maintenance (much less than Ubuntu, Windows or Mac, at least for my workflows).
And the only fucking around I did with it was the first two days setting everything up just the way I like.
To be fair, I already had extensive linux knowledge at the point of switching to arch - through ~4 years of constantly breaking my Debians and Ubuntus every couple of months.
i find arch to sometimes break on updates for me. it always turns out to be either:
1- bleeding edge package update made it bleed 2- needed to be watching announcements and change some config file 3- i havent updated in a while and it dislikes that.
i like having 100% automatic updates.
Depends on what yoy install I guess.
It only broke twice for me from updates during the 5 year period. 1. grub 2. openjdk
and the openjdk one simply didn't update until I uninstalled the old one and reinstalled the new one.