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Gentoo user here.
Your distro is literally named after a penguin, so what's your point? :D
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Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
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Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#242Exhibiting the self discipline to not distro-hop in 10 years is more commendable...but I guess that's Arch Linux for you.
Yeah Arch is basically the final destination all that distro hopping gets you to. No reason to hop once you've arrived.
I thought the exact same thing until I switched to NixOS. I love Arch, but I'd never go back.
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#243I always reinstall from scratch although I could just Debian "dist upgrade". My thinking is this: if, ten years ago, I somehow missed a security patch or some 0-day owned my machine before it was patched, then I'd potentially have been copying / dd'ing / rsync'ing a rootkit for ten years. By installing from scratch at every new stable (or unstable) release, I get rid of a lot of potential security issues. Now as an a…
I reinstall with every new version of Ubuntu for that, and to force myself to exercise my backups and install from scratch scripts.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#244Exhibiting the self discipline to not distro-hop in 10 years is more commendable...but I guess that's Arch Linux for you.
Never had the urge to distro hop after settling on Gentoo, 12 years ago. I've not seen a better package manager in all that time, just amazing.
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Yeah Arch is basically the final destination all that distro hopping gets you to. No reason to hop once you've arrived.
s/Arch/Gentoo/ I did run Arch for a while around 2010 but it didn't take. It's nice to find a permanent home - I've been on Gentoo since 2013 and an acquaintance has been on Slackware since the 90s. Those three seems to be where us tinkerers end up.
+1 - Arch is fine, but it doesn't have Portage.
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When I don't need Windows for gaming, I just boot the physical windows partition from Linux using Virtualbox. This way I don't even have to hibernate and interrupt any work.
Isn't windows "Installing new hardware" every time you boot? And the license is still active? I was always affraid it will break the system after few switches between virtual and bare-metal boot.
Installing new hardware doesn't happen often and it shows the unlicensed watermark when booted from Virtualbox, but booting natively restores the activation status.
Re: Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
#249I recently switched to an arch flavor because the AUR had a lot of little small utilities that make life better on wayland. Also, it's quite easy to install the latest version of golang and rust, etc. Pros: Documentation is excellent. Better than even Gentoo or Ubuntu's docs. Cons: Arch doesn't have an installer, and seems almost militantly against providing one, or a lot of other little utilities that could improve…
I would like to defend arch here. In my experience, Arch's main focus is on upholding a simple consistent architecture. There are tools that do something like the bare minimum required work, and then excellent documentation so that the end user can correctly perform the remaining required work manually (or via their own scripts). As a result, there are certain features that will probably never be implemented. For exa…
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I would be very surprised if pacman -Syu worked after three years of no upgrades. That's generally not supported and will require manual interactions.
Broke for me after a month or so on one laptop. Had to stop whatever I was doing and learn a bit how pacman and PGP keys interact or something.
That's expected, you'll have to pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring when a new developers key is added, which happens every couple months or so.