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I finally bought a thinkpad (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Bluefruit@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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And of course I'm installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

if something breaks, they work around it

That's the thing though, what breaks? I haven't had anything break in 10+ years. Guess I'm lucky? Or other people are really unlucky/careless? Where is the discrepancy coming from, between this notion of Arch breaking for everyone all the time and it not happening for me? Or is it just simply a legend of a bygone era? I hear it was worse like maybe 15 years ago. Maybe Arch hasn't shaken that image, still.

I mean, Steam Deck is based on Arch ffs. You can have it "stable" if you like. Why choose that distro if there's so much "inherent risk" with it. It's a solid distro if you know how to control yourself and your actions IMO.

[–] KssioAug@piefed.zip 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

SteamOS uses an immutable filesystem, and Valve curates the snapshots of the packages before pushing them to the end user. That pretty much removes the entire issue we're talking about, and is completely different than running rolling release distros.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

It's the same thing as postponing updates though, isn't that right? I mean, essentially, it is. Right? You pick when you update the system. Minus the curation aspect, of course. But they don't push updates very often, do they.

It wasn't the best example though, of course. 👍