Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
937 points (98.0% liked)
linuxmemes
32841 readers
864 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry of any kind will not be tolerated. This is an LGBTQ+-friendly community -- if that is a problem for you, you should leave.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
- Don't come looking for advice, this is not the right community.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves / tolerates / hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
I don't remove orphan packages, I don't setuo snapshots, I don't read arch news.
I sudo pacman -Syu. And if I can't boot I don't do it
It's been a while but for me personally, the number one thing that saves your ass in event of failure is installing both the up to date and the LTS kernel. If you fail to boot, it's gonna have something to do with a kernel update 90% of the time, in which case you just boot with the LTS kernel. Just about anything else can be fixed either while you're up and running, or with a live distro installed on a USB.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.
By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.
I think it's very much dependent on your hardware.
I had some issues with my Nvidia drivers getting messed up when the card was relatively new. I haven't had any issues in the past two years though.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Iβm here for a good time, not a long time
Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me
They call it disk destroyer for a reason. You gotta alias that shit.
alias dd='echo Did you triple check which device you picked? Of course not, dipshit. Check again'
They call it disk destroyer for a reason.
There's nothing specially destructive about dd. It's just a program that opens a file, and if you tell it to open a device file and it's got permission to write to it, it'll write to it.
You can just as easily overwrite a disk's contents with anything else that will open a file and write to it.
# cp /dev/urandom /dev/sda
will wipe your drive with random data in the same way that
# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
will.
You're technically right, but the way most people use dd ensures its like handling a loaded gun. How often do you cp /dev/sdwhy?
load more comments
(1 replies)
Hahahahah I need to do that lmao!!!
load more comments
(6 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?
Straight to jail.
You missed the space between one and drive⦠and you accidentally capitalized a couple letters.
Donβt correct me on this one. Please.
load more comments
(6 replies)
Why would you want your entire home folder in syncthing?
also, machines wipe themselves at each boot! service state data is distributed via zfs send! zfs that actually works!
load more comments
(1 replies)
Pfft.. it's been fine for the last 10 years.
Seriously. I've spent more time maintaining my debian home server than I have my two arch installs combined.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don't think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn't responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I'm running.
load more comments
(4 replies)
Separate /home is such a scam. Never have I run out of home space, but boy is 27GB not enough for a root partition that runs any kind of service.
Use a modern filesystem like btrfs or even lvm with thin provisioning to solve that problem. Separate partitions for ease of backup, but they all pull from the same pool of storage.
load more comments
(9 replies)
there are two types of computer users
- those who make backup
- those who never had a hard disk crash
load more comments
(8 replies)
my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...
what are yall doing to brick your machines?
Right? The OP describes me (except I like to think I'm not that sweaty) and I don't remember ever having reinstalled because things were broken.
load more comments
(10 replies)
*BTRFS users when you don't rebalance soon enough and run out of inodes so you can't boot your computer
load more comments
(4 replies)
I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?
Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.
load more comments
(1 replies)
This is my setup that I have been using for years. I have never had a serious Linux update issue that could not be fixed.
load more comments
(3 replies)
I'm rawdogging my Debian Unstable install
meh, just backup home.
Me with arch: what is timeshift? Time to updstr without backup, lol!
to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.
Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I've been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.
what's a snapshot, new kernel? lets roll!! almost 2k packages in
never really broke my arch tbh, its been serving flawlessly for 7 years now. its a decently recent thinkpad tho so stuff tends to just work and i have no gpu to bother about
Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.
I will simply reinstall and forsake my files if it shits the bed catastrophically
Dotfiles in git my dude.
Edit: or even better chezmoi with dotfiles and ansible bootstrapping
ROFL Like, this was me on other distros just using ext4, no timeshift (made manual backups though, not as much as I should've). Now, I am understanding the hype with btrfs, Snapshots, as they have saved my ass so much. Using Garuda Linux, BTW! Sometimes a machine doesn't matter so much so...I lived life dangerously, and paid for a particularly low cost for it.
load more comments
(2 replies)
No sweat. I prefer to reinstall and start fresh every now and then anyway.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Important files go to repos / backup disks. Workstations are sinners in the hands of an angry god.
load more comments
(2 replies)
view more: next βΊ