DISCLAIMER: Arch Linux is not a beginner friendly distribution, and this is not a recommendation or good practice.

I know how to use pacman -S. I have yet to experience a Discover related issue after months of use.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.worldOP
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    Eh. I haven’t had issues for a few months and I back up my files on a weekly basis and -Syu once or twice a month. Worst case scenario, I’ll just reinstall and restore from backup.

    Also, I mainly use Discover for high level stuff like browsers and IDEs.

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        18 hours ago

        IMO it’s overblown. If you even have an issue at all, 99.99% of the time it’s user error. And to mitigate that, you just use timeshift with BTRFS and snapshots on GRUB.

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        Yeah but imagine reading about a new release of something and it appearing in your updates the same day. Shiny new software every day is addicting.

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          On the flip side, reading about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo

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          You’re not wrong. That said my broke ass can’t afford cutting edge hardware so most of the time it doesn’t matter.

          When it does, I can usually compensate with either a NixOs profile install, a container of some sort (or Flatpak), or just building the emefferr from source.