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?
Void is Arch, but stable and without systemd.
If you know your way around Linux in general, that’s a good choice.
Void is NOT based on Arch. It was an original distro created by an ex-NetBSD dev. But yeah, I’d recommend it too.
I didn’t say that in a sense it was based on Arch, I said it like it was like arch: rolling and keeping the kiss principle.
Void is its own thing, which is another great point of going with Void.
Idk man, Void is cool but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless they had a strong philosophical aversion to systemd, or wanted to try a musl-only system, and wanting a degree of “it just works” is kind of the opposite end of the spectrum.