Arch Linux Stability

I have been using Arch for more than 10 years and it is great.It has great Wiki to start using it, and it is very stable considering it is a rolling release distro.Back in the day Ubuntu upgrades were extremely painful for me because I had to use a few custom repositories to get up to date versions of common software and they broke upgrades. On Arch it is not really an issue because everything is up to date. And even if something breaks once in a few years, if you set it up yourself (not u

Arch is too manual for me. I use Manjaro and love it. Absolutely trouble-free distro. Never had the much-claimed "rolling releases are going to prevent your machine from rebooting one day".In fact the only problem I had with it for years was the upgrade if OpenSSH that removed support for certain crypto algorithms. And that's not the fault of the distro.

I have been using arch for about a year now.I've crapped my system on install, or when trying to reconfigure core features.Updates? 0 issues. Like genuinely, none.I've used Ubuntu and Mint before and Arch "just works" more then either of them in my experience.

Every single time I tried using arch, I had nothing but problems with updates. I wasted a lot of time hunting down documentation to things that broke, like mailing, logging, the DE, bluetooth, you name it. Changes that get taken care of by default in other distros. I had some very nasty surprises while using arch. My stable Ubuntu or Debian installs didn't even have a single glitch in the exact same timeframe.

Been running arch for nearly 10 years and the only couple of breaking changes I had were either from ignorance or not reading special update instructions.Also Arch is far more up to date than those you mention (sometimes by many months.) You're not confusing it with another distro?

I have never used Arch, but I heard it uses rolling releases. Could you expand a bit more in the typical problems an Arch user would run into?

I've been using Arch for about five years, and I can tell you that things break more frequently than with any other distro I've used for a suffiently long amount of time. Things break more frequently when you're tinkering with things, but sometimes even on routine updates. If you want something more stable, use Debian Testing or Slackware. That being said, Arch is great. Try it!

I've been using Arch on my workstation and on my laptop for several years already. I can sign all the points you gave in here and I really appreciate how easy it is to setup and use the distribution.Although many years ago I had problems when updating, in the recent years everything just works and I don't need to worry about upgrading the whole distro every 6 months.

I have been using Arch both for my work and private desktop for about ten years now. It is an absolute joy to work with. The biggest drawback is the very occasional breakage after doing a system upgrade. I would estimate such an upgrade breaks the system once or twice every year on average, although everything is much more stable for the last few years. I upgrade my system at least once per week.Overall, highly recommended distribution, even for beginners, assuming you are willing to r

Arch Linux is a meme but also a really solid distro. I'm writing this from a 2+ year old Arch install that has had basically 0 stability issues. "Rolling release" gets an undeserved bad reputation in my opinion, and many arch packages aren't as bleeding edge as you'd expect.Compared to Ubuntu where I'd often have major issues in between releases, I don't think I could ever go back.