Does the 1~2 week delay improve Manjaro stability over Arch?

I run Manjaro on the computer I use 99.9% of the time. It’s been rock stable but there have been a few issues, over the years. I’ve been forced to reinstall on four occasions, since 2017. I expect it would have been more but I stopped taking updates until a week or two after they are offered. Every issue could have been handled with timeshift but I only started running timeshift about 6 months ago.

I also have an Arch laptop that I use a few times per year. It’s been very stable but it goes for weeks without being used. I have no way to know how many problems it would have had if I used it every day.

Any thoughts on which is more stable? Maybe it doesn’t matter that much, with snappy and timeshift?

  • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I can’t speak for Arch personally. It required more time than I had at the time to install it, as I wanted to do it the recommended way from the Archwiki but I also did not have reliable internet at the time. That was awhile ago, late 2020 I think. I started using Linux in spring of 2020.

    I have been using the same installation of Manjaro KDE since

    me@mycomputer ~]$ stat / | grep Birth
 Birth: 2024-02-05 04:54:20.000000000 -0500

    which is also when I assembled this computer. The zeros at the end of ‘Birth’ look really improbable. They are accurate as far as I understand but I wouldn’t know how to check otherwise either.

    My previous system I also was using Manjaro KDE. It had a few problems, I think it was mostly because of an nvidia graphics card. That and user error. It still works to this day. I haven’t reinstalled Manjaro or installed any OS on it since september of 2021. I also haven’t used it much since building this new system. This has nothing to do with the operating system, I just like to share it, the computer was in two tornados one day and the CPU was partially delidded from one and it still works fine.

    I will add that I am a casual user, I don’t do some things that might invite trouble like torrenting. I also live alone and have very few friends and no known enemies, so overall I have a very boring threat model, that mentions cats more than most threat models do.

    I also do not use the AUR and am on the stable repository. I also don’t use Timeshift, I use Vorta, which uses Borg, for my backup system, which only backs up my personal files which are in my home directory on a separate partition, if something happens to the system, I will reinstall. It hasn’t happened in over a year though.

    For my very basic computer needs (mostly Firefox, GIMP, Blender, Zim and Kdenlive), it works fine. Cue Manjaro haters.