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I have really come to depend on rolling-release systems. I have a few alliances that run Ubuntu, because of a dependency on vendor packages and insufficient interest in fighting with software+hardware issues, and I hate when I have to deal with them. The paupacy of software, the frequent breakage on release upgrades; I don't know how people who prefer these systems justify how bad they are in comparison to Arch (or Nix, or any other rolling release-based distro).
I haven't yet done it, but Arch is so reliable I'm tempted to create a daily
-Syucron job (or, more precisely, a systemd timer job, because I'm only yet running Artix on a couple of systems). The only thing that gives me pause are the kernel updates, which are frequency and necessitate system reboots.Those kernel updates really make me wish Linus had focused on a microkernel architecture.