Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
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Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#2As another Arch Linux user, I can attest that it is the rock-solid foundation for your computer.
I use double boot to host both Linux and Windows; when I need to use Windows, I just put Linux into hibernation. This greatly extends the amount of time it can go without being rebooted.
Driver and X problems still cropped up occasionally, but things seem much more reliable now than they did a while back.
This is a also the distro I'm familiar with from my time working on servers, where I've used it with ZFS with great success.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#3Exhibiting the self discipline to not distro-hop in 10 years is more commendable...but I guess that's Arch Linux for you.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#4I'm the same but with Gentoo, which is another rolling distribution. I've had it installed for over 12 years on multiple servers without any issues.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#5Mine is around 6-7 years old. Started off as an Antergos on T450s, then moved to T480 and later on I replaced the extra repos and the startup logo with EndeavourOS after the Antergos ones went dark.
However, I can see a noticable slowdown and some services occasionally acting weird - once every few months i need to switch to a terminal and use loginctl to unlock my session. I am seriously considering a reinstall, no matter how humiliating that sounds.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#6Exhibiting the self discipline to not distro-hop in 10 years is more commendable...but I guess that's Arch Linux for you.
When I was first getting into Linux ~2006-2007 I distro hopped constantly until a friend told me about Arch and then there was no more reason to distro hop :)
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#7I'm the same but with Gentoo, which is another rolling distribution. I've had it installed for over 12 years on multiple servers without any issues.
Same here. My gentoo installation on my previous machine was setup as I bought the PC, somewhere around 2008.
I tried arch but it does not feel like home.
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#8> A few months ago, I copied my complete installation to a ThinkPad X13 Gen 2 using rsync
How would something like this work? Is the target laptop running any random linux distro, and rsync replaces all system files etc. effectively "swapping" operating systems? Can the laptop boot into the new system as if it was installed normally?
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#9Exhibiting the self discipline to not distro-hop in 10 years is more commendable...but I guess that's Arch Linux for you.
I distrohopped a lot for my desktops and then stopped when I got to arch.
For servers, I've used CentOS, Ubuntu, and debian. I never did get too into the the CentOS redhat side of things. I'm not sure why that is except that I just was used to the debian way of doing things... In general, my go to is debian or Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the only distro where every damn time I've managed to break it in ways I can't figure out how to fix. Arch and debian are the only distro s where I've been able to fix something screwed up without a full nuke and reinstall. And I HAVE screwed some things up pretty bad.
Arch though is just so good. I just don't quite trust it to handle updates unattended so I don't use it on servers.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#10Operating systems are not unstable. Users are unstable.