[vladvasiliu]

Looking through the latest advisories of upgrades requiring manual intervention, those mostly seem to be files that were mishandled. I guess they want to avoid "being smart" and trying to second guess the system setup.

Other distributions attempt to migrate the config / tools which mostly works, except when it doesn't. Earlier today I upgraded an Ubuntu 21.04 to 21.10. The computer is a glorified Spotify Connect player, so I don't configure anything on it. But for some reason, after the reboot, there's some issue with gvfsd-something-or-other. I never configured anything related to that. Is this normal / expected? No idea. A quick search on the release notes [0] yields nothing.

So I guess there are always tradeoffs. Arch seems to adopt more of a hands-off approach, where you only get a basic system and then you build your own environment. As such, there's many possible variations. In contrast to Ubuntu / Fedora / etc, where the devs can reasonably expect that a system is in a roughly known state.

[0] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/21...