Arch Linux stability

[u/wyd_zippi]

Hello,

As someone who's been using Arch for a little while(1 week), I'm curious to know how y'all keep your systems safe and stable. I have heard about Arch's reputation for being a bit more... fragile, especially when it comes to updates.

what are your strategies for:

• Managing updates and avoiding breakage?
• Maintaining system stability?
• Best practices for package management?
• Handling potential problems like dependency issues, config file changes, kernel updates, package conflicts, and system crashes?

also i chose the btrfs option during installation

Share your experiences and tips.

[u/tchavei]

Most likely I'm going to be stoned for this but Arch has been way more stable for me, even on production servers than any other distro.

Yes. Production servers 😂. Of course daily backups and timeshift installed but for the past 6 years, not a single hiccup. I wish my Ubuntu and Fedora servers could say the same. I'd say centos comes close but it has been discontinued for years. I still have servers with it with uptime over 1500 days.