Hmm, I’m not aware of those tracks or how they work. I only really was able to install arch from a specific guide because the device is a raspberry pi 5

I think it’s very stable for what it is. But I still had it break remote desktop, wifi functionality, and something about graphics that caused weird glitches in Firefox. These issues all took months to fix, each. For most tech savvy people it’s probably stable enough but for the less common hardware, the only reason I could keep using and updating it was by leveraging timeshift. I would update everything, test if my issue was solved, see it still present then rollback. I did that process dozens of times.

Gotcha. I don’t think you are being unfair.

Yeah, I don’t love the aesthetic of Pop OS out of the box but with a minimal set of GNOME extensions I really like it. Which actually, is the case for me on vanilla GNOME too.

I’d like to be an Arch person, but on the only device I’ve used it on, I’ve had some major breakages happen a couple of times. Took months for the issues to get resolved. Which honestly, as hard as software is, let alone OSes, is a great track record. Most teams could only keep stability specifically with these long/major release schedules like everyone else essentially does it.

The only thing I don’t like about it is being behind on gnome since their DE is a forked older version of gnome afaik. Especially for recent gnome extensions, it’s not always the most amenable. But mostly even on that front it’s workable

I don’t think I’ve really seen it hated on much

Interesting. I made the equivalent of this for installing Arch on raspberry pi 5. Maybe I should make them public.

That’s amazing! Why shit on Pop!_OS though? I’ve always liked it. I think it’s definitely more stable than Arch in the long term

Fuck apple.

Mac os is pretty bad with that bullshit too

Amen. This is similar to the experience I have too. When I use Windows I have as many if not more problems. If I was only using a web browser, like most non-power users, I would have across the board worse issues on windows.

You can’t turn off the sidebar?

… Are you trying to steal my handle or what?

Token Linux hater of the thread. Have a cookie for fulfilling this important role of reminding us that Linux is the only OS family that ever needs troubleshooting

What is AOVPN?

I got the joke you were trying to make, poorly. It just wasn’t funny.

Say bro a few more times – it really makes me look unintelligent that you both do that and can’t understand a view that isn’t black/white

I’m glad you see my point

Oh, I thought we have to take extreme positions

I suppose Mozilla should lock the doors and institute slave labor rather than find some way of paying their employees that might be construed by you to be giving up privacy