I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it’s my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won’t announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that’s not enough.

I’ve been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I’ve decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    If you don’t want to get into the rabbit hole that is NixOS (which is a distro i also like), then i would say void linux, if you still want that arch minimalism. Void is a rolling release, but it’s more like a slow roll if that makes sense and focuses on stability. It’s package manager is also rock solid, fast, and can update even when the system hasn’t been updated in ages. If you’ve done a manual install of arch before, you’ll probably breeze through the install process as well, since it is a guided ncurses installer.