[moftz]

As much as I love running Arch on my school laptop, I'd never run it on a laptop I would use for making money. I'd probably be using something like Fedora, a stable distro that doesn't break whenever I update en masse. I usually don't have too many huge bombs go off in my face but the most recent round of updates I applied totally killed my sound and some NetworkManager features. Annoying, not totally disasterous, but I've had some killer bugs in the past that have made me waste time on fixing issues when I should have been studying.

If I'm getting paid, I'm not spending the time on fixing all the small issues that pop up with Arch. I love it otherwise. Sometimes it's fun to blow a few hours on a weekend fixing some random bug that has only ever happened to you. Sometime's its not fun and just really inconvenient. I always keep a backup Windows partition just in case something bad happens and I really need to use a computer for a bit or if I just need to run some random Window's only app.

[kluck]

If updates in Arch frequently "destroy" some features, you could do this: have two partitions, each with Arch on it and bootable from the boot manager. The first is minimal (rescue system) and the second is the one you use. Then before you make an update, boot into the rescue Arch, backup the second Arch partition's data, try the update and see how it goes ;)

[matt4077]

Yeah... Or use basically any other OS and get shit done without every update degenerating into a day's worth fiddling.

[Accacin]

Running Arch for years, and an update has never broken my system. It requires more maintenance, sure, but Arch is incredibly stable generally.