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Arch and Gentoo users reading about NixOS (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I think Endeavour OS is like that too. I have 2 "unfixable" bugs on my arch installation that can never be removed. I have to manually do 2 annoying workaround tasks every time I turn on my computer before I can use it and this will likely never go away. I've been told both these issues can't be fixed without a complete os reinstall and even then it might not go away. I booted into an Endeavour OS live usb and what do you know, both those bugs were fixed out of the box. Endeavour is based on Arch. The kernel it was running was a kernel number release after my installation developed both of these "forever" bugs.

Arch is great and all but holy fuck I'm sick and tired of this fucking bullshit all the time. One of these times I'm going to type sudo pacman -Syu and it will develop yet a third unfixable forever bug. This is the same shit that drove me away from Windows: uncontrollable degradation over time that can't be fixed without os reinstall. Even Gentoo isn't this unforgiving.

[–] ManniSturgis 7 points 4 months ago

Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I can sympathize, but moments like that are good to test backup solutions. I replace the drive, pretend the first one died, and see how hard it is to start over. Turns out I'm not very good at backups and always miss stuff. :(

The end result is a bug fixed and some lessons learned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Could you explain what these bugs are? I'm curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Try Void, stable AF IMO. I have yet to run into "unfixable bugs" (whatever that means). And even if there are, you open an issue on GH and there will be a patch most likely. If it's a kernel bug, you'll just have to open an issue on the Linux kernel git repo.