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Breaking, just for fun, happens in my limited experience often on major system updates, from one LTS to the next or something. The process takes forever, much much much longer than just installing a fresh Linux (and also slower than the gigabytes Arch is needing every couple of days) and that sometimes does not work for no reason. Especially love those updater messages when it tells you what to type into the terminal to fix it, instead of just executing that line of code itself. Installing Linux is fast though, so if it is just a laptop for browsing, office, gimp etc the standard Linux stuff, there is nothing of value lost, its no big deal, but if it's your main PC that should of course not happen. I had Ubuntu running for years until it got too demanding for my laptop and switching to the lightweight versions might have introduced problems for the updater.
I am not sure how Timeshift or Snapper actually work if I need it but if they do what I think they should, not using rolling releases makes hardly sense anymore.
Niche apps are often only available for Ubuntu though, so you kinda have to use that, even though the dependencies are then also quite terrible set, trying to use outdated python stuff, that won't compile/install anymore and replacing all versions to most current ones runs through. (and in the end still won't launch the app lol) Anything outside of repositories requiring the configure, make, make install trinity is pure nightmare.

I've only had this happen twice with Arch. Once was an update to Limine which broke secure boot (all I had to do was turn it off temporarily and look for a fix. fix was simple.). The second wasn't actually a bug in arch but an update to Open RGB that caused my system to hang (same thing happened when I went back to Fedora and installed Open RGB).

The Zorin password bug (apparently a common enough issue) had no easy fix and when the package manager crashed on Steam install, nothing I could find worked to fix it (three massive errors barely an hour into each install). Also, think back to the Steam bug Linus ran into that bricked his system on POP OS. My first foray into Linux gaming was with POP and I literally saw that same error message. I didn't wipe my system because I read the prompt but the general buginess of POP scared me back to Windows for a good couple of months.

Debian distros are filled with OS-killing landmines. They're not "stable." They're just hopelessly out-of-date.

If you want easy and "stable" go with basic Fedora. Bazzite for gaming if you don't want to tinker.

Cachy OS if you want bleeding edge and are slightly more advanced of a user.

 

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The day has arrived JohnnyFootball

The descriptor heap has been merged into vkd3d-proton!

Complete VK_EXT_descriptor_heap rebase by HansKristian-Work · Pull Request #2943 · HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

Massive behemoth rewrite that is shippable. The full PR is here for testing purposes, but the actual landing will happen in half a million stages. Hidden behind VKD3D_CONFIG=descriptor_heap since t...

github.com

 

[JohnnyFootball]

The day has arrived JohnnyFootball

The descriptor heap has been merged into vkd3d-proton!

Complete VK_EXT_descriptor_heap rebase by HansKristian-Work · Pull Request #2943 · HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton

Massive behemoth rewrite that is shippable. The full PR is here for testing purposes, but the actual landing will happen in half a million stages. Hidden behind VKD3D_CONFIG=descriptor_heap since t...

github.com

Fun fact: I rebought a Microcenter 9070XT pre-built for $1530 open box and am using that as my Linux PC. Having fun with it for sure.