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Arch completely broke systemd-boot after a recent update for me on my laptop. After spending half a day trying to figure out how to get it put itself back in to the loader.conf I just put Windows 11 on the laptop. My girlfriend uses the laptop and wouldn't know how to fix this if it happened again. So it still breaks stuff on occasion. Maybe not for you, but it does.

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Well, I use GRUB for booting since, let's see... well, since I first installed this system, probably something like ~10 years ago, and it just works, never breaks, and I never have to touch it.

The parent poster was definitely right that Arch pushes all of the decisions down to the users rather than deciding for you, so I suppose how much it breaks depends on how good your decisions are and how much of a Linux expert you are. I could fix virtually any broken Linux system while blindfolded, so I know how to set it up so that it never breaks and doesn't require any maintenance. This probably explains the difference in our experiences.

why tf you put arch on her laptop

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