I want to use NixOS so bad
Or what Arch has become.
But I want to believe
Or what Arch has become.
But I want to believe
It's an operating system, not a disney movie. Not sure what sort of redemption arc you are waiting for. If you are curious, try it. If not, then don't. What's all this business about believing ?
What has Arch become? I've been using it for 10 years and the only thing I can think of that has changed is the init system.
Using Arch as a server can be a headache. Just today I updated a Arch VM running postresql. Postgresql needs to previous version present to do the upgrade. I had actually skipped a version (11 to 13) so Arch no longer had version 11 in the repos and old packages had broken dependencies.
I ended up just installing the Nix package manager on the system. I started a shell with Postgres 11 & 12 both present to do one upgrade. Then I used another shell with 12 & 13 to do the final upgrade. It took like 10 minutes vs the hour I had spent trying to rollback packages on Arch.
> We told you Arch would be bad at this
does not refute (or even contradict)
> Arch is bad at this
The cost of Arch's KISS philosophy is a system that is uniquely brittle among Linux distros in a number of ways, and Arch users are totally unwilling to admit this except in the form of blaming users for having bad experiences.
I do wish our line of work would formalize into an international guilds so apprentices help learn to maintain this stuff on their way to becoming "journeymen", somehow.