fuck arch

posted on October 29, 2024

okay, i hope im not the only IDIOT that daily drives linux. i use arch and while i think it’s a great example of community (non corporate) driven development, it also FUCKING SUCKS in some instances.

i have 2k packages on my desktop, since i do a lot of different stuff, especially dev related. i more or less keep everything up-to-date, since that’s the only way to have security fixes and such.

well, therein lies the issue. RANDOM SHIT will break. and you won’t even notice until you go do a specific thing, and it doesn’t work. and then you have to waste hours and hours like an idiot searching for the fix; or just give up completely, like i just did.

i run android studio for android development and out of the fucking blue, the emulator doesn’t work anymore. well, it works, it starts, but i can’t interact with it; clicks dont seem to go trough.

so, since it worked perfectly well last boot, and it doesn’t anymore, i think it’s safe to say something related to updates broke it, since i haven’t done ANYTHING at all to it. i’m so fucking mad i’m downloading android studio on my windows machine and i’ll try my luck there, but honestly, fuck arch linux.

anon 2024-10-30 (12:06 am) No. 123264 reply

skill issue
anon 2024-10-30 (12:37 am) No. 123265 reply

>>123264
LMAO i was thinking that'd also be what i'd reply with if it was someones elses rant. and tbh partly true
anon 2024-10-30 (1:19 am) No. 123266 reply

not to be that guy, but just ask for a refund
anon 2024-10-31 (2:46 pm) No. 123267 reply

>>123266
anon 2024-10-31 (2:57 pm) No. 123268 reply

>>123266
Refund for...Arch Linux?
>>123267
Neat, didn't know you could attach images here
anon 2024-10-31 (11:34 pm) No. 123269 reply

>>123268
me neither

also as me using mint purely so my old computer works okay, i don't know how you got 2k packages, guess arch is pretty different.

well uh, bye!
~kiki
anon 2024-11-01 (12:29 am) No. 123270 reply

>>123269
Arch is actually pretty minimal, he mentioned he does a lot of different stuff -- that's how he got 2k packages. I personally use Artix (btw) and have <800 packages
anon 2024-11-03 (2:07 am) No. 123271 reply

>>123270
>>123269
yee, i do a lot of different things, i guess... audio/video stuff, editing, software dev, virtualization, etc.

now that i calmed down (lol), i do think at that scale/amount of packages shit will break because (1) it's impossible to test all interactions between all packages and (2) it's rolling release

but it does still make me hella mad when i pacman -Syu and then stuff randomly breaks...