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Used to run Arch on the desktop on an old laptop back in the day, now I only have Arch on a couple VPS. I will admit Arch devs have been absolutely sloppy lately with package/system updates. I also had a kernel problem when I used Arch on Digital Ocean, but it was a custom unsupported install I did years ago before it finally kernel panicked. It's usually fine if you don't do partial system upgrades and don't use testing repo sources. FWIW Debian 12 on my X1 Thinkpad has been a very stable desktop experience. Coming from someone who has used Arch since 06, I would never recommend Arch on the desktop for development
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Ryan 2y ago

I've been using Linux on the desktop for 20+ years. If I want it to just work, Debian is awesome. I find these days appimage, flatpak, and docker have eased a lot of the pain of running newer packages on a stable Debian core.

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nobody 2y ago

Debian is truly great in the cloud. Once drivers for my hardware hit maturity in Linux Iā€™m definitely giving deb another spin. In the meanwhile I may try it in a VM.