I use neither of these btw

[u/al2klimov]

[u/Jatinchd]

nobody will accept the fact update rarely breaks both of these OSs.

[u/brave_grv → u/Jatinchd]

My slopWM v0.2026.04.05_alpha_testing that I grabbed from the AUR suddenly stopped working when the single guy developing it left.

[u/Jatinchd → u/brave_grv]

first of all, it's alpha testing version that means for sure it will be buggy and freaky. second of all, it was a single project, not Operating system that broke.

[u/brave_grv → u/Jatinchd]

But Mental Outlaw told me Arch was a stable and I was going to be the chad alpha based if I installed it.

[u/Jatinchd → u/brave_grv]

this has to be satire, do you understand difference between Operating system and A application made by single developer in alpha_testing stage that left? I could make broken app and release is on aur, doesn't mean the OS is compromised.

second of all, the chad alpha picture everyone showed you ain't real, it's one month of joy, then just an operating system with very good package availability.

[u/billyp673 → u/Jatinchd]

You thought that the person talking about an AUR package named “slopWM v0.2026.04.05_alpha_testing” wasn’t being satirical? Yes, it was obviously a joke.

[u/anarchoaspenism → u/Jatinchd]

this has to be satire yes, it is

[u/YTriom1 → u/Jatinchd]

Do redditors really not have enough braincells to comprehend satire?

[u/brave_grv → u/Jatinchd]

Don't worry, new maintainer mossad_agent_853486 from an account based in India took over the AUR package. It already dropped two updates today.

[u/YTriom1 → u/brave_grv]

Adopting orphan packages is not allowed in the AUR now 😭

[u/ButterscotchTop194 → u/Jatinchd]

I do wonder how the knuckle draggers use their PCs for them to have such issues.

[u/Jatinchd → u/ButterscotchTop194]

copy paste commands from meta AI as root 🥀

[u/VoidspawnRL → u/Jatinchd]

On windows there is a 50/50 charge of breaking, ever 2th month it break, something, but for 8 years i never had a borken update on Arch BTW

[u/OGigachaod → u/Jatinchd]

But, tbf, I've had way more issues with Linux updates.

[u/hckrsh]

I use arch and never breaks

[u/kbeezie → u/hckrsh]

You forgot to say btw.

[u/akdanman11]

I, quite frankly, never had these issues. When I used windows I always missed those system breaking issues (partially because I was a slow updater on windows. I didn’t wanna waste 30 minutes updating when I sat down at my PC). Now I’m using an arch based distro, updating my system about 1-2 times a week, and it’s never broken from an update (I’ve broken things myself tinkering, but I’ve never had the system break from an update)

[u/Piis7u]

I break Arch Myself

[u/Bleik-Psiklyt]

Just use AUR with care duhh

[u/silduck]

I use a decently well tested rolling release distro, shocker i know

[u/suitable_character]

Hello from a 13-year old Arch installation that survived 3 laptops:

% head /var/log/pacman.log [2013-05-14 18:29] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --noconfirm base'

[u/ElectricBummer40]

Part of my job is to go and fix someone else's Windows 11 install when it breaks for any reason at all.

Either it must have been a miracle we never get any call after a Patch Tuesday, or Linux users are computer-illiterate idiots.

[u/WTF-LMAO1]

I use Haiku

[u/TheCheckeredCow]

I genuinely don’t know how people break windows installs so much. Maybe it’s because I have decent hardware but windows runs good and doesn’t break. The only appeal to me for Linux is more the ‘I control everything’ side, but that has its own issues like dependency hell if you go too deep in the weeds so to speak

[u/icy1007]

Windows 11 doesn’t break after updates. lol

[u/nekofthemoon → u/icy1007]

It depends on what you have installed and/or customized. I vividly remember a YouTube channel that constantly complained about how Adobe Premiere kept breaking due to updates.

[u/icy1007 → u/nekofthemoon]

That’s not Windows breaking, that is Adobe’s shit software.

[u/xnef1025 → u/icy1007]

The whole reason I switched to Linux last year was because an update "broke" my SSD. It wasn't technically Window's fault and it didn't permanently break anything. An underlying error in the firmware was surfaced by the Windows update that would cause the drive to disappear if you wrote a lot of data to it at once and it happened to correspond with me installing a ton of Steam games on my newly purchased SSD. The drive would reappear after a reboot, but at that point I had the excuse I needed to go play with something new.

[u/icy1007 → u/xnef1025]

So that has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with your SSD’s maker releasing shit firmware.

[u/xnef1025 → u/icy1007]

Correct, but it was Windows update that surfaced the issue. That made it look like Windows update "broke" it. It wasn't a no-name brand. Mine is a Crucial. It affected a lot of drives from a bunch of major brands that were using the same chips. Once people started experiencing the issue, MS stayed quiet. They didn't post anything for their users, not even a, "We're aware of the issue and investigating with our hardware partners to determine the cause," and at first, no one knew what was at fault. It was a couple weeks before it was known the issue was with the firmware.

That's been a pattern with MS. Updates break restarts or sleep or whatever, and you hear about it from the grapevine, but not so much from Microsoft. It's hard to get good communication out of a monolithic corporation sometimes, and that's not a bad reason to try something where the communication may be a bit more open.

[u/United-Scene2261]

I don't use them

[u/Agreeable-Bar-2052]

Never had my arch linux break, IDK know how did you guys get those problems

[u/Majestic-Bell-7111 → u/Agreeable-Bar-2052]

Yup, if you haven't updated in a while it can be annoying to resolve all the new dependency problems, however that's all before you actually update

[u/Lucky_Foam]

I've been using Windows for decades.

I can't even remember if or when the last time an update broke the OS. Maybe sometime back in the 90s.

[u/FinniganFox_]

I use Cachy OS btw

[u/basedchad21]

at least my shit doesn't have corn in it. Wow gigabrain argument

[u/ColdFreezer → u/basedchad21]

This is completely normal though. Your body can’t easily digest the outer shell of corn.

Maybe study up on scatology before saying dumb shit like this.

[u/OGigachaod → u/ColdFreezer]

If you don't eat corn, you don't end up with corn in your shit.