Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.

Hot take: I used arch for over a decade. It never broke unless I broke it.

By all means, back up your files but rolling release distros aren't made of arsenic, you'll be fine.

I’m here for a good time, not a long time

Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me

Where are those people whose arch installs break after every second update? I don't think I had a single problem with arch that I wasn't responsible for. Hell, I had more problems with mint on my girlfriends PC than the arch machines that I'm running.

i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?

Pfft.. it's been fine for the last 10 years.

I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem

How do you mismanage your system so bad that you need these things?

This is my setup that I have been using for years. I have never had a serious Linux update issue that could not be fixed.

there are two types of computer users

1. those who make backup
2. those who never had a hard disk crash

I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.

I'm convinced that majority of people using timeshift couldn't recover from their system failing to boot or a drive failure.

And if you could tell me how because I got no idea how to either.

Rule of thumb I adopted: If you never update arch, it will never break.

Separate /home is such a scam. Never have I run out of home space, but boy is 27GB not enough for a root partition that runs any kind of service.

Non-issue. I just scatter fragments of my data across so many devices that some version of something is bound to be somewhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Even ext4 still has safety measures (BLOAT!11!!1) because of journaling.

This is why i compile my kernels on ext2 with without swap for maximum utilization /j

How do you know about me.

Arch noobs after destroying their system every month be like:

Wait. Are you saying you can choose not to rawdog your os ?

my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...

what are yall doing to brick your machines?

This is me with endeavourOS lmao. Anything important is on my mega/Codeberg. If it dies it dies

if it breaks, just fix it

Dotfiles in git my dude.

Edit: or even better chezmoi with dotfiles and ansible bootstrapping

to be honest that setup is faster to arch-chroot if things go wrong.

I always back up anything that I feel is actually important, do people actually rely on the stability of their OS?

Not that Arch has caused me any issues whatsoever so far, going on 2 years now while very much a Linux noob.

I'm rawdogging my Debian Unstable install

Mint users with no zfs, no per block checksumming, no syncoid, no ability to boot into prior version or revert right in the boot loader...