<story><title>Arch Conf 2020</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>How much time do you spend upgrading and fixing issues, if any? Rolling release has always scared me.</text></item><item><author>joseluisq</author><text>Arch simplicity and top performance as well as its rolling release, high quality packages and community (yes, docs too!) definitely makes me more productive every day.&lt;p&gt;As a happy user since 2015, thanks for such amazing distro and experience.&lt;p&gt;Long live Arch!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelp</author><text>This has never been a problem for me. But when I&amp;#x27;m running Debian I mostly run testing anyway. Also rarely a problem there.&lt;p&gt;On Arch I run sudo pacman -Syu almost every day.&lt;p&gt;You could run something like this to get a warning if there is anything that requires manual intervention: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bradford-smith94&amp;#x2F;informant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;bradford-smith94&amp;#x2F;informant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also run my laptop with Snapper: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;snapper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;snapper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I use a btrfs root volume with btrfs subvolumes instead of separate partitions. I have snapper setup with a pacman hook to take a snapshot before and after every pacman run. So worst case, if something goes horribly wrong, I can boot from an Arch install image into a previous snapshot and unbreak things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Arch Conf 2020</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>How much time do you spend upgrading and fixing issues, if any? Rolling release has always scared me.</text></item><item><author>joseluisq</author><text>Arch simplicity and top performance as well as its rolling release, high quality packages and community (yes, docs too!) definitely makes me more productive every day.&lt;p&gt;As a happy user since 2015, thanks for such amazing distro and experience.&lt;p&gt;Long live Arch!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlamponi</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m using Arch Linux on a VM since 2015. On that VM I host some services for personal projects, gitolite, Grafana, InfluxDB, wireguard and some self baked daemons (they are also deployed as Arch Linux package, it&amp;#x27;s not too hard and much cleaner and easier to deal with in the long run).&lt;p&gt;I update weekly to daily, but sometimes also a month goes by (e.g., if I&amp;#x27;m on vacation or the like), never had an issue, never had any breakage. I reboot on kernel updates, downtime is a few seconds which I can deal with.&lt;p&gt;The VM is only single core, 4GB memory, 40 GB disk space - chugging along just fine.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I&amp;#x27;d always feel safe and good with choosing either Arch Linux, Debian or Alpine Linux as VM&amp;#x2F;CT distribution (my underlying  hypervisor would be Proxmox VE, which derives from Debian).</text></comment>