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Arch Linux :)

ejj28 5y ago
Indeed, after pacman and yay I'm never going back to Debian-based systems for personal use. The Arch User Repository is so much more hassle-free than trying to install stuff on Debian from 3rd-party repos.
- nopenopenopeno 5y ago
  What gives people confidence in the security of the user repository packages?
  - commoner 5y ago
    You can audit the PKGBUILD scripts yourself. A good AUR helper, such as paru (https://github.com/morganamilo/paru https://github.com/morganamilo/paru), will by default automatically present the PKGBUILD for the user to evaluate before proceeding with the installation.
    - nopenopenopeno 5y ago
      Thank you
howdydoo 5y ago
I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days? I guess that's ironic to hear considering my original question, but I appreciate a different update cadence between the OS (I want LTS, stable) and things like `ripgrep`, which if there's a bug, it won't keep me from booting my system and I can just downgrade if I notice it.
- nopenopenopeno 5y ago
  I haven’t used it, but Manjaro is the more stable Arch. It has a longer release cycle, but nothing is like Ubuntu LTS, which I use for the same reason. I’d rather just not even be tempted to deal with newest updates and Ubuntu seems to be the only way to avoid that because enough people realize they have to keep a maintained version compatible with the current Ubuntu LTS.
- ByteJockey 5y ago
  > I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days? Been using arch for ~5 years. Maybe once a year something goes funky and I have to check the news page to see if any manual interventions are required. They give you the exact command to run most (all?) of the time.
- rajishx 5y ago
  i am not experiencing such instability, compared to a normal distro, i have actually no idea what breaks because so many things happened on the system, here a few packages here in there and i can easily pinpoint what problem is!

Arch Linux :)

Indeed, after pacman and yay I'm never going back to Debian-based systems for personal use. The Arch User Repository is so much more hassle-free than trying to install stuff on Debian from 3rd-party repos.

nopenopenopeno 5y ago
What gives people confidence in the security of the user repository packages?
- commoner 5y ago
  You can audit the PKGBUILD scripts yourself. A good AUR helper, such as paru (https://github.com/morganamilo/paru https://github.com/morganamilo/paru), will by default automatically present the PKGBUILD for the user to evaluate before proceeding with the installation.
  - nopenopenopeno 5y ago
    Thank you

howdydoo 5y ago

I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days? I guess that's ironic to hear considering my original question, but I appreciate a different update cadence between the OS (I want LTS, stable) and things like `ripgrep`, which if there's a bug, it won't keep me from booting my system and I can just downgrade if I notice it.

nopenopenopeno 5y ago
I haven’t used it, but Manjaro is the more stable Arch. It has a longer release cycle, but nothing is like Ubuntu LTS, which I use for the same reason. I’d rather just not even be tempted to deal with newest updates and Ubuntu seems to be the only way to avoid that because enough people realize they have to keep a maintained version compatible with the current Ubuntu LTS.
ByteJockey 5y ago
> I heard rumors long ago that Arch has occasional stability problems caused by updates. Is that still true these days? Been using arch for ~5 years. Maybe once a year something goes funky and I have to check the news page to see if any manual interventions are required. They give you the exact command to run most (all?) of the time.
rajishx 5y ago
i am not experiencing such instability, compared to a normal distro, i have actually no idea what breaks because so many things happened on the system, here a few packages here in there and i can easily pinpoint what problem is!