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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Do you use the AUR? That might make the difference.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yep, I have a lot of AUR packages installed. Never had any problems besides needing to remove a package once to resolve some dependency issues.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    the real question is whether you use git variants. Which is another way of not making arch (and Gentoo) certainly not free as in free beer, especially if you live in Europe and need to deal with those outrageous energy prices. btw imo one should be suspicious of projects with long tagged release cadence since it's usually a sign of technical debt and the need to look for alternatives.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Hmm, I think I broke my X11 server with an update more than once.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
    Ken Thompson

    I see Wayland's flaws but X is such a bloated piece of hardly maintainable spaghetti code that it is sadly beyond saving or prospects for anything in terms of significant improvement