Please understand that I haven’t tried or installed Arch Linux yet. From what I understand by reading and watching related videos, Arch is often breaks and a lot of time is required to fix issues. But I have also read comments from arch users who claim that arch has only crashed or caused them problems only a couple of times in a year.

Wouldn’t a stable or non rolling release distro be a great choice for the Steam Deck?? Also, how frequently do the packages get updated on steam os?

  • papafoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    Arch is actually really stable if you keep it updated. Where it gets ya is if you don’t update it for a couple months or longer.

    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This has been my exact experience in the 8 years I’ve been using it as my desktop OS. Boot into windows to play some game I can’t get working, beat it a month later, come back and I need to get my boxing gloves out to use my computer again

    • halfwaythere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Please explain this to me. It is stable till it’s not? What happens during that time that makes arch no longer stable?