• redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      What pain? I’ve only managed to break it ignoring news and config changes or playing with experimental packages and my own patches.

      Otherwise it should be install and intervene in an update twice a year to dispatch-conf.

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        7 hours ago

        It is very stable and I like that when an update breaks it fails to build rather than failing down the road during runtime, but I never quite got the hang of running -9999 packages (Gentoo’s -git equivalent), which I like running on Arch. Also in general getting new updates quicker and just having a bigger library of packages and the AUR available, since it was kinda getting old coming across software I use or wanna use that has no ebuild available and having to make my own.

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          5 hours ago

          Have you considered nixOS? It’s very good at dealing with failures during updates, allows you to revert to previous generations if something does go wrong, and makes it fairly easy to install packages from git like normal packages (even the main package store for nix is just a git repo)

        • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          7 hours ago

          Which is why I have Kali and arch on laptops. But I don’t need much exotic software.

          Great for specific production and Dev environments too.