I realized my VLC was broke some point in the week after updating Arch. I spend time troubleshooting then find a forum post with replies from an Arch moderator saying they knew it would happen and it’s my fault for not wanting to read through pages of changelogs. Another mod post says they won’t announce that on the RSS feed either. I thought I was doing good by following the RSS but I guess that’s not enough.

I’ve been happily using Arch for 5 years but after reading those posts I’ve decided to look for a different distro. Does anyone have recommendations for the closest I can get to Arch but with a different attitude around updating?

    • Karna
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      89 days ago

      Bugs are of two types - known (found during testing by Distro maintainer) and unknown.

      Fixed release fixes known bugs before pushing packages.

      It is following the standard development life cycle.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 days ago

        Fixed release fixes known bugs before pushing packages.

        So do rolling releases. What’s your point?

        • Karna
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          8 days ago

          Are you familiar with the term “Regression testing”?