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I feel like people still have in mind what Linux desktop was 15 / 20 years ago. It improved a lot in the past years, battery life improved on laptops, Ubuntu that was already very stable and feature complete also got a lot of things with previous releases and I've personally been running Arch on my main computers now for 5+ years and haven't got any major issues while upgrading.

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Try using the latest version of software that has a more frequent release cycle than arch. If you have an incompatibility there goes your install.

Have yet to see a distro do multi monitor hi dipi that results in readable fonts out of the box..

This gets updated yearly - https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

This list is quite comprehensive, but also quite boring. It's just a list of bugs and things that are suboptimal on Linux. You could write one about any operating system. Some of the items like 'such-and-such needs to be configured using a text file' are also not even real problems.

What do you mean by 'there goes your install'? There are multiple ways you could run bleeding-edge software before it's packaged for Arch. See for example every 'xxx-git' package in the AUR. Or Flatpak.

Arch does not have a release cycle, sorry.

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