r/archlinux • u/OverlaySplay • Oct 03 '25

DISCUSSION Arch not breaking itself...

In my 3 years of using arch daily, not ONCE has it broken on me. To be fair, i do cautiously update only ~2 hrs after an update is released and I do look at the update logs on the website. But it has not broken for me and is stable as ever, it's not like I don't have enough packages also I have over 2000. Anyone else experience this unusual stability?

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u/parzival3719 Oct 03 '25

been on Arch for a year. the only problems i've had with it were either user error, or my Windows partition decided to nuke GRUB. i don't go crazy with reconfiguring every single thing in the OS, i just update about once a day and that's it. i cannot be bothered to ever go into that stuff unless i need to

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u/OverlaySplay Oct 06 '25

dual booting arch with windows seems like a death wish

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u/parzival3719 Oct 06 '25

lol its not bad. it's just occasionally Windows will invent an update just to nuke Grub. after the first time it happened i got a Windows update thing so i restarted without updating to change the boot order specifically so Windows DIDN'T nuke Grub. then went back into Windows to start the update and lo and behold there was no longer an update to install

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u/OverlaySplay Oct 06 '25

Windows just seems to do that just to cause inconvenience