[thesuitonym]

>The downsides are that upgrading is a bit anxiety producing (will I break anything?).

I don't understand why Arch users put up with this. There are plenty of distros that you can build your DE on your own with, but that have regular releases, and are extremely stable.

[flatiron]

arch users don't really "put up" with this. every computer i run (besides my work windows machine) is arch and they have broken exactly 0 times. i update once a week, 0 problems.

[pkulak]

For what it's worth, when one of my Macs upgrades, and starts rebooting 8 times over the course of an hour, I get pretty damn anxious too. At least with Arch it's just a bunch of packages being replaced and then a reboot. Plus, if you run a snapshotting filesystem like btrfs, you can always just roll your whole system back a few hours if things are really borked; though I've never personally had to do that. No option like that on Macs. If you upgrade and something important stops working, you're shit outta luck.

[jjulius]

Because it gives me more chances to learn how something works than a stable OS.