Arch is different…

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why would anyone want to use a distro that can break at any update unexpectedly or have to read articles first to see if it’s safe is beyond me.

    It’s too much of a hassle.

    • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I wish arch didn’t have that reputation because I seldom have issues with it

      Its like that subway meme where it goes “my brother in Christ you made the sandwich”

      If arch breaks it’s 99% of the time user error, and that’s ok. But to say it’s the distros fault is incorrect imo.

    • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      News from this year:

      • virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention (package won’t install)
      • Active AUR malicious packages incident (the AUR is locked)
      • Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results
      • Breaking changes for all users of varnish, which is renamed to vinyl-cache (it’s a proxy, only affects servers)
      • kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention (dhcp server, affects routers)
      • iptables now defaults to the nft backend (affects pretty much nothing)

      Repost.

      Also, my Mint install broke, uh, shit I don’t remember, 5 times? Arch broke zero times. Zero times not my own fault for forgetting I was installing something and shutting off the computer, of course. Except for the times I tried the fucking installer python script, but since I never even booted the install it doesn’t count.

      • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        this year

        And one post earlier (2025-12-20) that the image likely could be about:

        NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support

        Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

        Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages [without manually changing to AUR packages] on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

    • black0ut@pawb.social
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      2 months ago

      Who uses virtualbox on Linux having KVM, QEMU and virsh/virt-manager?

      It’s gonna be slower, proprietary, and it’s not even as easy to install

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s not slower.

        proprietary

        Only the extension pack, the app itself is GPL.

        not even as easy to install

        How do you mean? You simply install virtualbox (and virtual-guest-iso if you want). All the relevant packages are available from official repos, at least on Manjaro, including a linux-virtualbox-host-modules-meta package that maintains the required linux*-virtualbox-host-modules as needed automatically.

        Also, I prefer virtualbox because it makes a lot of stuff easy to do.

        File sharing with the host for example, it’s a matter of simply pointing at a dir in settings, as opposed to having to set up Samba on the host (which I don’t have and don’t want) and deal with wierd networking issues, or deal with virtiofs.

        Don’t even get me started on selecting locations for the vm files. Whatever you think it should work like, virt-manager’s way ain’t it.