Indeed! And the most stable machine is one that is EoL and never gets updates! Nothing breaks if nothing gets updated! That’s why I run IIS on a Vista x64 box!
I mean, you do you, but I do plenty of actual work on my Arch machine. I’ve been working on an album, which involves not just the recording, mixing, and mastering, but also there’s a bunch of paperwork involved in the business side of things, not to mention stuff like album art. I game on it as well, but saying Arch isn’t good for work is just ludicrous. It’s a DIY distro, you get what you put in. A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.
That said, my server is a Debian machine, but that’s because my services don’t need up to date packages, and I just wanted something I could stick in a corner and forget about.
Sure, you don’t have to update every day like I do, it’s a good idea to do it once every quarter since Arch updates it’s keyring around then. My sister runs Endeavour and she hardly ever updates lol
There’s definitely something to be said for stability. I use stable releases for all my server boxes.
Arch is fine for a gaming desktop or a desktop you don’t do actual, you know, work, on.
But for work or servers you need stability.
Indeed! And the most stable machine is one that is EoL and never gets updates! Nothing breaks if nothing gets updated! That’s why I run IIS on a Vista x64 box!
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Spoiler
DUCK FOR COVER DUCK FOR COVER
Quack! *BOOM*
You can securely run IIS on Vista, you just have to unplug the network and power cables.
I mean, you do you, but I do plenty of actual work on my Arch machine. I’ve been working on an album, which involves not just the recording, mixing, and mastering, but also there’s a bunch of paperwork involved in the business side of things, not to mention stuff like album art. I game on it as well, but saying Arch isn’t good for work is just ludicrous. It’s a DIY distro, you get what you put in. A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.
That said, my server is a Debian machine, but that’s because my services don’t need up to date packages, and I just wanted something I could stick in a corner and forget about.
“stable” in this case means “doesn’t change often”. Is that actually doable with Arch?
Sure, you don’t have to update every day like I do, it’s a good idea to do it once every quarter since Arch updates it’s keyring around then. My sister runs Endeavour and she hardly ever updates lol