I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I’ve decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That’s because of users, not OS… right? I love to deal with problems but I don’t want to waste my time. Is Arch really problemful OS? Should I use it? I know what to do with setup/ usage, the hardness of Arch is not problem for me but I am just concerned about the mindset “Arch always gets broken”.
Arch has a good package manager and tests updates, but it is still a DIY distro.
If you add BTRFS snapshots with snapper, or timeshift with whatever, it is more stable.
What all traditional distros lack though, most important imho, is a “factory reset” feature.
Fedora Atomic desktops have this.
rpm-ostree resetHere is the issue tracker on more factory reset components to have a “like Android” experience. (Reset /etc, reset LUKS password, recreate a new user account)
If you want Hyprland on there, qoijjj maintaines wayblue where PRs for good defaults will for sure be accepted.
Ones of the reasons I like Pop, they install a recovery partition with a copy of the install USB, finally they have a ‘factory reset’ that reinstalls the OS while keeping the users home folders.
This is really great. Windows has something similar, just having a superstable parallel OS is a blunt but working solution.