It hasn’t broken for me once in 3 years. The stuff they add on top of Arch (the installer, pamac, the tools to manage graphical drivers and kernels etc.) are genuinely useful and improve the experience for people who would have never used Arch otherwise. It’s a pleasure to use… and therein lies the crux of the matter, I think.
Some people are too in love with the idea of being cool for roughing it with Arch and can’t stand the notion of “easy Arch”. It’s the only explanation I can find for some of the stuff I hear. Like “it just broke” — when it never broke for me in daily use, and I’m using dozens of AUR packages, gaming (on Nvidia too) etc. generally doing whatever I need with it without holding back.
It hasn’t broken for me once in 3 years. The stuff they add on top of Arch (the installer, pamac, the tools to manage graphical drivers and kernels etc.) are genuinely useful and improve the experience for people who would have never used Arch otherwise. It’s a pleasure to use… and therein lies the crux of the matter, I think.
Some people are too in love with the idea of being cool for roughing it with Arch and can’t stand the notion of “easy Arch”. It’s the only explanation I can find for some of the stuff I hear. Like “it just broke” — when it never broke for me in daily use, and I’m using dozens of AUR packages, gaming (on Nvidia too) etc. generally doing whatever I need with it without holding back.