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Enjoy your stable systems while you can! Learning comes through solving problems as they come up. It's a good sign if you don't have to.
Need some new functionality? Figure out how to set it up. Encounter a bug or issue? Troubleshoot and fix it. Functionality that you want doesn't exist? Time to program it yourself.
You can also start customizing (ricing) your system as you wish. Take a look at unixporn style communities for inspiration and advice.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm guessing systems tend to lose stability over time? What's something that broke that you've had to fix in the past that sticks out in your mind, doesn't matter the reason.
Bluetooth, obscure laptop quirks, audio, fonts, maybe a dozen Nvidia related issues. Seldom all at once- but have been at it over a decade. >.<
Not an 'over time' issue caused like Microsoft's creepy fetish for more and more of your habits/data but, our devs are human volunteers, usually with day-jobs.
Highly recommend a bare-metal, manual install of Arch- promise it's not as scary as it might look, just lots of reading.. When stuff breaks, you'll have a decent idea of how your system is put together and where things have gone wrong. Congrats on objectively picking a derivitive of the finest pre-compiled distro Gnu/Linux has to offer! ^.^
Thank you for the info! That arch install is looking more and more like the next project I'll be taking.