[jcelerier]

When I was using apt based distros, Debian, Ubuntu, apt and dpkg would break all the time as soon as you went a little bit out of the canonical usage. In contrast I have yet to see Arch's pacman fail anywhere, even when used in non-ArchLinux places such as MSYS2

[dmz73]

Interestingly I have the exact opposite experience. Apt has never failed for me in the last 15 years but pacman fails all the time in both Arch derivatives and specially in MSYS2. With pacman you HAVE to keep updating at least weekly. MSYS2 often gets into state where it will no longer download updates and after going through all suggested fixes the only thing that works is to nuke it and start fresh. It doesn't help that pacman is designed to be used interactively so you can't just schedule reliable background updates.

[jcelerier]

> With pacman you HAVE to keep updating at least weekly

My record is updating a machine that was off for two years lol, it worked from the first try

Even for msys, I find that weird, I boot on win32 ... Once a month maybe ? And msys updates do work. Wild.