Arch I want to love you. But you're so freaking unstable and I just want to code in peace without you freaking out every week about config files being screwed up. Why can't we have the stability of more mainstream distros AND the Pacman package manager + AUR? Some of us have to code for a living you know.

I'm really tempted to just go back to Debian to set it and forget it. PPA's be damned.

Ehh my only problem is the community, i don't understand why they are so against a replacement for AIF but I'm tired of fighting with them.

@irene Arch Installation Framework. It was arch's awnser to preseed/kickstart back before the switch to systemd, when they switched it became defunct and nobody wanted to update it cause it was legacy code. There was one retry called aif-ng but it hasn't been worked on in a year

@irene I'm not surprised. Everybody including me tells everybody else to build from scratch so unless you specifically look for a way to do unattended installs most wouldn't find it. Only reason i found it was cause i was looking for an easy way to setup repeatable builds without having to do alot manually anyway

Stuff runs fine here as well for over a year now. Two arch machines. I do make snapshots before updating. If shit breaks and don't have time for it. Roll back.
Can't stand Debian on dev machine too behind on everything. Containers help but well they are behind on that front too

I'm coding on Arch for living. Last serious problem I recall was maybe 2-3 years ago. I'm simply curious which packages caused you such pain.

I run two very different arch installs, (the hardware couldn't be more different) and I haven't had any issues in the last 2 years on my new machine and the last 5 on my old desktop (except vor windows replacing the bootloader every now and then but that happens with all distros)

Config files being screwed up....

That's odd.

As in Debian Pacman has Pacnew / Pacsave files:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.ph...

So I really wonder what U mean? Or are u using PKGBUILDs Out of unofficial repos which are not properly set up?

Arch user for 2 years and I've had a grand total of 1 problem caused by updating packages. It didn't take long to fix, either.

Like other comments, I have only had 1 problem the entire time I've been an arch user (4 yrs, and it was related 2 proprietary Nvidia drivers)

Arch is ment to be very bleeding edge, and as such isn't as stable as say ubuntu lts. However the arch wiki and user forums/documentation are extremely comprehensive and helpful, allowing most issues to be resolved with a simple search.

Arch isn't for everyone, but for me its teh <3 ;P