@charlag Outdated software with non-critical bugs is bearable. "Rolling release", where every upgrade breaks something critical, is not.
Last time I ran #Arch, I had several identical installations, and upgraded just one of them at a time (cycled through), so I could just reboot into some older version to be able to use a piece of software broken in the latest upgrade.
Why do I love #Slackware? Because I control everything, but most of it is already fine-tuned already. Also, the benevolent dictator is awesome. I don't want no #Gentoo. I don't need no #Arch. I can't stand #systemd for various reasons.
@echolib Arch is tough on SBC's like the Raspberry Pi in my experience. It reminds me of Slackware and its installation experience, a bit, actually.
But #Manjaro is like Ubuntu for #Arch from an installation and user experience perspective.
now free of proprietary platforms and formats!
password: "i use arch btw"
The website Prism-Break.org exists to help shield people from government surveillance by recommending only free and open source software.
Of the many #Linux distros, they ONLY recommend #Fedora and #Debian as being completely free software, easy to use, and widely supported.
I blame @nigeldgreen for mentioning I should check out recent #nextcloud - so I did in an #arch #linux VM; I chose arch because it had recent nextcloud 15 packages where as other distros seemed to have ancient ones.
Although arch does very little for you, so it was a case of configuring it by hand - but the arch wiki instructions were fairly good and it only took about an hour or two (including the bits I missed). The calendaring, stuff looks pretty neat.