It sells easier and no one cares about Linux beyond us.
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Annual bump to show how stable Arch is - yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of my first Arch install, done The Arch Wayā¢. She remains as stable as can be.
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If I still had my old Dell, I believe my install too would be living on. But 7 years? Thatās wild.
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I have a SolydXK install (Debian stable based) that will be 9 years old in a few months. Never reinstalled, I have updated-in-place with each new version of Debian.
I donāt know if I even have a piece of hardware that Iāve had for 9 years, nevermind an install.
But to be fair, debian stable, 9 years is what like 2 updates? Hahahaha I was just looking at their current, and I canāt even believe gnome is still on 3.38. You guys give them credit, if you just need something to work, thatās the place to be.
I have a bookworm install that I quite enjoy. Linux all around these days is pretty impressive.
Itās a great distro (both Debian and SolydXK).
Some of use donāt give a shit about what version anything is on. It works, and works well.
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To be honest, I use my Thinkpad mostly just for travel since getting my legion, with the next debian stable should bring gnome 40+. Iām tempted to go that route and just flatpak Firefox on it since thatās mostly all I need while traveling.
Also, Iāve never really used Debian anything. Most of my previous history was with Mint or Ubuntu and I think thereās a fairly large difference between Ubuntu based and Debian based, if Ubuntu is also Debian based**
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On one laptop, I have an Arch install that should be at least 2-3 years oldā¦ sadly Iād have to pull it from the shelve to be more exact about itās birth.
Ubuntu is to Debian as Manajro is to Arch.
Iāll leave it up to you to decide whether thatās a good thing or a bad thing 
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Man, thatās. . . Really depressing. I may need a drink after that one.
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Iām certainly not as long term a user as many others here, but Iāve been using this and other arch-based distros enough to agree with the sentiment. The only two issues Iāve ever had with arch-based distros are
- I broke something rooting around in config/driver files without knowing what I was doing
- A package from the aur wouldnāt build correctly for some reason (usually because of the packager not the package manager)
The latter of course only being a minor nuisance. Iāve never had my system implode on me out of nowhere. Beyond that, unlike other distros Iāve used the package manager has never really caused me any headaches and ājust works.ā Pacman has always worked flawlessly for me, unlike apt. With basic maintenance EOS in particular has caused me exactly zero problems.
Birth: 2023-05-04 16:14:37 (new machine, trying out EOS KDE this time) 
