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My friend that runs arch constantly complains about a bricked system.
I only complain about long compile times.
I mean, sure, you can brick the system if you do something stupid probably. I never did but I dont take risks.
When using arch I remember it often happened that an update would mess up something. Not all the time, but every few months it would happen that I'd have to spend a morning after the update figuring out what got messed up.
Maybe Nvidia drivers. I had that years ago too before i switched to amd graphics.
What did you have that got messed up?
Bunch of things. Indeed Nvidia drivers happened frequently, but that is something you generally expect and got used to fixing and as such it's no big deal. I remember much pain with Xorg, but also had problems with alsa, network manager, keychain and several other core systems.
Also, try losing power during some pacman transaction and have fun figuring out what exactly is preventing your system from booting up.
I had a system freeze during pacman update a few weeks ago and I couldnt get into any graphical environment anymore. It would just hang at boot.
With the help of chat gpt, I got instructions how to fix it. It took over an hour. Many system libs had 0 size all of a sudden so they couldnt load. Chat gpt got me through the process of reinstalling it all from the cache, keeping all config settings.
But that was the first time that ever happened in over ten years of arch.
Without chat gpt it would have been a full system reinstall, losing all settings, since I didnt know how to do what it suggested.