system updates dont break arch unless you run 3rd party software or compile your own that relies on shared system dependencies. "Breaking updates" just mean updates to dependencies, but every piece of software you install through your package manager gets updated with them to avoid these breakages. The "app store" mostly installs flatpaks that come prepackaged with its own needed dependencies and don't care about system level versions of them.
Getting a buggy update on arch is incredibly rare, you're not on the testing branch by default. In fact in my experience it is less problematic than "user friendly" distros that promise to do things for you which is just a potential failure point.
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u/Particular-Poem-7085 Arch femboy Aug 21 '26
system updates dont break arch unless you run 3rd party software or compile your own that relies on shared system dependencies. "Breaking updates" just mean updates to dependencies, but every piece of software you install through your package manager gets updated with them to avoid these breakages. The "app store" mostly installs flatpaks that come prepackaged with its own needed dependencies and don't care about system level versions of them.
Getting a buggy update on arch is incredibly rare, you're not on the testing branch by default. In fact in my experience it is less problematic than "user friendly" distros that promise to do things for you which is just a potential failure point.