[tadasv]

I've been using arch for the past several years. Decided to get it installed after buying a new desktop. Overall it's good (and I've used it before), I have very simple setup and I don't really need much. Just dev tools.

The issue I'm having is (I think) hardware related. I'm a bit afraid to update systemd since by doing it several times before I got a kernel crash during install which left the system in an odd place. requiring me to boot up from usb to correct the installation. I can deal with it, but this is not something I particularly enjoy. I currently have almost 2GB of pending updates because of this, which I think defeats the purpose of rolling release distro.

I was actually thinking about trying out some other distros, maybe debian. With hopes that it will fix the kernel crashes. Another thought that I had, was to switch to FreeBSD, the only thing currently preventing me is the lack of Docker.

[diggan]

If you're risk aware of updates, you might want to try something like nixos where you can always rollback the entire state of the OS at boot time. So upgrades are basically creating a new snapshot with the upgrades, then reboot to check if everything is working. If everything is working, delete old snapshot. If things are not working, reboot to previous state. Makes the risks very small for even the most destructive upgrades.