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submitted 2 months ago by Bunny19@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

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[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Replace Arch with Ubuntu and the answer is yes. Arch based that's not a good idea.

The reason is that in 6 months lots can have changed, and Arch is not guaranteed a stable base, so updates might assume you have certain versions or things might break because you should have done a middle step during the upgrades that you didn't which is now buried in months of update news in the wiki.

If you want to only update your system every six months, Arch is not ideal, it's likely to work, but not guaranteed.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 months ago

Thankfully, paru has an option to automatically show all Arch News before any -S operation.

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