Back then it was for many simply the first rolling distro they tried… to suddenly realize that without tedious (and rarely unproblematic) release upgrades the reasons for a new install (thus trying out yet another distro) also vanished.
I have reinstalled Arch on the same machine only once, after SSD of my super old MacBook Air got corrupted. I haven’t used the laptop for like five years. Weirdly, a reinstall went well, and it looks like the SSD works well so far. Apart from that, my oldest system is about 7 years old, and it’s running well. I have no reason to reinstall. That very machine is a server. Also, I had a MacBook Pro broke keyboard on me, I simply rsynced my entire system to another MacBook Pro, and was done within about two hours. Needed to update /etc/fstab and maybe something else too. So, apart from Arch becoming a bit of a meme, I cannot recommend it more. It taught me quite a lot too. It was mostly stable for me.
Back then it was for many simply the first rolling distro they tried… to suddenly realize that without tedious (and rarely unproblematic) release upgrades the reasons for a new install (thus trying out yet another distro) also vanished.
I have reinstalled Arch on the same machine only once, after SSD of my super old MacBook Air got corrupted. I haven’t used the laptop for like five years. Weirdly, a reinstall went well, and it looks like the SSD works well so far. Apart from that, my oldest system is about 7 years old, and it’s running well. I have no reason to reinstall. That very machine is a server. Also, I had a MacBook Pro broke keyboard on me, I simply rsynced my entire system to another MacBook Pro, and was done within about two hours. Needed to update
/etc/fstaband maybe something else too. So, apart from Arch becoming a bit of a meme, I cannot recommend it more. It taught me quite a lot too. It was mostly stable for me.