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The "Arch breaks on updates" meme is about 20 years out of date.
Almost as old as the last Debian update.
I run Slackware. Debian is much too unstable for my taste.
They'd update it, but they are afraid it would no longer work as well
I mean, I had a mainline kernel update bork my system last month
Is that you?, Crowdstrike?
jokes on you one of my not so much into linux friends had it and his setup kept breaking, now he's about to install fedora