which one breaks more frequently?
both seems like a huge meme
Which one breaks more frequently?
Parker Reed
Sebastian Phillips
Jordan Garcia
LTS or non LTS matters little in this case, the testing is the same it just has longer duration support for companies. It's still Debian Sid/testing with half the testing that Stable gets. It's better than Windows but that's not high praise. Use CentOS/Slackware/Debian if you don't wanna use distros that have a risk of shitting themselves otherwise pick any other linux distro. Arch has improved a lot but it's also luck of the draw. You can get a year with no breaks and the month after you get fucked every week. It's a risk, some people find it worthy, others don't.
Lucas Robinson
Meant to quote OP
Owen Adams
Is there a benefit to using Arch over more stable distros? Is having the latest packages always available worth the headache, or is there something to it I'm missing?
Zachary Ward
If your job/hobby/hardware/whatever relies on bleeding edge software arch offers benefits over stable distros. If you don't need/care for any of those, no point installing it.
Robert Bailey
If having the latest packages isn't useful to you then no.
Michael Clark
Literally Debian. Switched from Gentoo to Debian because didn't want to invest much more time in it, and it can't be that bad right? Yeah, had more issues with Debian in 5 months than in 4 years of Gentoo.
Jaxson Brooks
I'm using Arch because it's the closest thing we have to a modern Slackware with systemd. It doesn't get in your way when you manually configure your system and you don't have to fight some automation software over every change.
Levi Brown
I've used Mint and Arch. Neither have been "headaches", but for me having the latest version of everything is super liberating and convenient. I don't have to worry about using previous compilers or needing a feature that I can't use.
I do a lot of programming so it's more useful for me than others. If you think it about it seems like a really dumb idea to develop software using a toolchain that is months out of date.
Also in terms of headaches, stable releases seem much more annoying, e.g. when a new version of Ubuntu comes out or when you need to manually install the latest Python version.
Arch has never broken for me, seems to be something that happened more in the past.