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    [–] possiblylinux127 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)
    [–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

    It is! My Desktop hardly ever topples over!

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    So I'm trying to understand if you think that shutting down an update during regenerating the initramfs indicates that Arch isn't stable? Because that's a FAFO move and would crater any non-atomic update distro.

    [–] possiblylinux127 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    It doesn't ruin Debian or Fedora as they do the bootloader last

    If it is interrupted it just boots the old kernel

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    When talking about Linux, "stable" usually means "doesn't have major changes often", or in other words, "doesn't have lots of updates that break stuff". That's why "Debian stable" is called that. Arch is not that.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

    Stable does not mean it's for everybody. My installation runs since now 10 years.

    (The only other distribution this failsafe I know of is Debian)