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[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 133 points 6 days ago (38 children)

"No way to prevent this" says only distro where this regularly happens

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)

News from this year:

  • virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention (package won't install)
  • Active AUR malicious packages incident (the AUR is locked)
  • Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results
  • Breaking changes for all users of varnish, which is renamed to vinyl-cache (it's a proxy, only affects servers)
  • kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention (dhcp server, affects routers)
  • iptables now defaults to the nft backend (affects pretty much nothing)

Repost.

Also, my Mint install broke, uh, shit I don't remember, 5 times? Arch broke zero times. Zero times not my own fault for forgetting I was installing something and shutting off the computer, of course. Except for the times I tried the fucking installer python script, but since I never even booted the install it doesn't count.

[–] Kabutor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I dont get the bad press arch got. I use arch (btw) and can't remember last time it wont boot after an update. It maybe happened to me twice in 20 years and at least once was my fault and the other was because i didn't read the pacman post warning me

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Once it happened to me because 6 years prior I'd made a change thinking 'hah. That makes more sense' and then things changed under me and I had to read journalctl in a tty. Low key enjoyed dealing with it. But here's the thing: most ppl are dead at that point. No idea what to do. Arch is for nerds.

Edit: if you also read my other post about iptables, this is a completely different thing. I had two issues.

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