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Which brings me to the question, how come Arch manages to not cause massive problems for users wiry the massive AUR that is even user maintained?

I've been using Arch for like 7 years or something now and it just works, probably because of some very hard work by the maintainers.

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To be frank, the answer is that it does cause problems for users. I've read countless anecdotes at this point from both camps, some claiming that Arch never breaks and some saying that updates have broken their install.

I personally tried Arch in 2017 for a period of a few weeks, and updates broke my system twice (in different ways). I was able to fix both issues, but decided I didn't want to deal with that. I suspect the difference between the two camps is that those who claim that it doesn't break don't consider something they can fix a breakage.

I stopped worrying about breaking linux workstations and not-virtualized servers after discovering "Relax and Recover" (ReaR) which allows "Acronis-like" ISO rescue to previous "snapshots". I think it's nice to at least know you can. I wrote a guide to backup using sshfs with ReaR, here[1]

[1] https://devblog.juangacovas.info/relax-and-recover-bare-meta...

Manjaro would deliver here. Arch based but the devs test packages for two weeks before adding them to their repos.

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