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Who thinks that Arch always broke is one of the two:
My Arch install has almost 5 years and I never had an issue that was like "oh no! O need to reinstall everything!"
Interesting enough, when I was using release-based distros, almost every big update my system become unstable and I had to reinstall me whole system.
As far as i see from the comments, I understood what i have to. I see that Arch has no problem in itself, the problem is user. I decided to install Arch on my pc finally. Thanks for your reply. Have a nice day.
I had one btrfs partition that just got corrupted for some reason. One day after changing nothing except updating the system, I rebooted and the partition wouldn't boot. Lost a lot of good stuff on it. This was Arch, but I don't think it has anything to do with it being Arch...
The only times Arch broke for me were when I broke it. There were 2 exceptions, however.
I once went a long time (a few weeks) without updating and I had issues relating to keys and the pacman keyring. Luckily, Erik Dubois had a video about exactly that and the system was fixed within <30 minutes (including finding the video and watching it)
The other time my computer turned off during an update which involved updating the kernel so my system broke (I can't remember if I turned it off or if it ran out of battery). I recovered it using live media, chrooting and doing an update again from inside the chroot, which fixed it. Once again, took about 30 mins.
Every other case of breakage was caused by me actively tinkering with the system.
I should note that this doesn't include minor issues like some configuration no longer working because of an update or something like that, as 1. this isn't a system-level breakage and 2. it isn't Arch's fault.
Agreed. I broke arch multiple times over the years. Once I learned to read the arch news, pay attention to the pacman log, and not just “yay - update complete” my way through updates - it’s been pretty solid for years. More so than the “stable, noob friendly distros”