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bhrgunatha  ·  3084 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm switching back to Mint!

I switched to Arch from Ubuntu after it kept breaking on me. I've never been very lucky with updates and upgrades. Despite its reputation for being unstable I used the same installation for 7 years and it's been rock solid. It has broken from time to time, but it's been reasonably easy to fix. I never had that with Ubuntu - once it broke it was broken.

I recently bought a new computer - the disk on the old had severe performance problems - I think it was starting to fail.

Setting up a new OS minus all the accumulated years of cruft on new hardware is such a good feeling.

EDIT: I really need to proof read my posts more carefully.





user-inactivated  ·  3083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Setting up a new OS minus all the accumulated years of cruft on new hardware is such a good feeling.

Tell me about it. Something as simple as just installing the latest distro makes your computer feel like new again.