I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it’s my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won’t announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that’s not enough.

I’ve been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I’ve decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    3·
    10 hours ago

    They are included in the updates to -testing.

    Only after they meet the requirements to be moved from unstable.

    From the wiki:

    It is a good idea to install security updates from unstable since they take extra time to reach testing and the security team only releases updates to unstable.

    and

    Compared to stable and unstable, next-stable testing has the worst security update speed. Don’t prefer testing if security is a concern.

    - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

    There is some advice on that page about how to deal with security updates for testing and I’m wondering how people who use testing take that advice, and what changes they make to get security updates. Or maybe you don’t bother. That’s what I mean.