[tanjiro]

Its not just the initial setup that's painful with Arch, the whole rolling update model means things break often and I no longer have the patience to patch them. But I do agree that linux provides a better env for development compared to macOS. On Ubuntu atm and works like charm with flexibility to extend it as I like.

[blux]

"...means things break often..."

Citation needed. I can provide some anecdotal evidence to the contrary; I've been running Arch both privately and professionally now for about 15 years and sure there were some issues initially but the last decade or so I've been updating my systems fearlessly on a regular basis.

[philliphaydon]

I've only been running arch on my laptop for a year, and it hasn't broken once, unlike Ubuntu which I constantly had issues with.

[jatone]

rolling updates isn't actually a problem in practice. the maintainers do test the applications before releasing the updates.

i encounter usually 2-3 bugs (and almost always they are minor) per year due to rolling updates and usually its in the software I'm developing relying on old behaviors. and a simple package downgrade fixes it almost every time.