Steam started crashing on verifying installation after an update. I made a half-hearted attempt at solving the issue, lasting about forty minutes before it occurred to me that there was a better way.
I installed Debian Bookworm and declared that I was insufficiently 31337 to use the AUR safely.___
The infernal loop of switching between rolling release and LTS releases. It never ends.
After 6 years of using arch, I am realizing I was bamboozled into using rolling release.
Yeah I flip flop between loving rolling releases and hating using comparatively old versions of everything, and hating how often things break and wishing I was just on a slow, stable distro.
Rolling release shouldn't be necessary for the average person but some stuff just takes ages to get to stable/LTS releases
I like that Debian has the release channels, but the fact that the default PHP is still 7.3 is wild.
OTOH PHP 8.x has such issues last I checked that it wouldn't belong in stable. Maybe that was just the last point release though idk
I believe it also introduced some breaking changes, it's just a pain trying to get it installed when you have a service that requires it and you end up having to install from source.
Debian based distros are pretty pog. Easy to run anything you want, doesn't update constantly.
I always get an itch to go back to arch about 3-6 months before a major debian stable release. Then I try it, something doesn't work, is annoying to fix, and by around that time the new debian is out and I can baio.
But for those 3-6 months, I am cool.
Distro wars
Filesystem wars (I use zfs btw)