TIL that you have to run Arch on everything including servers in order to be considered a competent system administrator

Why? What's the point of rolling release on servers?

@epse
Not being bored at work, because you have to fix everything that breaks.

@metamourge not that my arch breaks that often, but at least you'd have to update waayy more often which is enough of a pain

@epse "btw i use arch, therefore i ez bes sysadmin"

Keeping the minor detail of literally every server distribution having command-line installers and interfaces aside for a moment of course. Minor details 🙃

@Condor Mr arch sysadmin, I use arch and I'm a sysadmin sometimes, but I'm not competent at all. And you're just an arch-using ankle. By which I mean three feet below a cunt. I bet the fucker also got his TTY's riced to a nice light theme because something burned his braincells out

@Condor I heard in the game Halo that all the aliens ran Arch on their computer systems. It was a special version just for them though. It was called "The Arch of the Covenant".

Arch on servers is soooo yesteryear for showing off that it won't impress anyone anymore.

Try installing Arch on your bathroom towel or on carpet tiles in the office - that's both more hype and more pointless!

@Fast-Nop or try installing windows 10 through arch, big brain time

@Fast-Nop or install arch on your nemesis...

@epse to be fair, the updates are typically quick and done in less than thirty seconds.

Not server related, but I use arch with dual boot along with Windows on my laptop

Also, mesa 18.x.x cause mesa 19.x.x fucking crashes the laptop on waking up from sleep mode

Arch on servers is a bad idea. You want stability on servers.

@d4ng3r0u5 I'm will say something a priori here, but I have a feeling that you are doing the same.

you also want security on your servers right? sometimes updates on ubuntu take a long time to land. not so much on arch.

@erandria and updates often provide bug fixes. Know what's not stable? Bugs. The important thing is to quickly do patch updates, but scrutinize feature updates.

@erandria Debian and Ubuntu run older versions of the software, but security patches are applied to their code just as quickly as they are in other distributions. The idea of these distributions being insecure because they don't ship [insert latest and greatest software version] is a fallacy. It has to be because most servers out there run these distributions and deal with critical information. It'd be madness if those were somehow insecure! As long as you update them every so often and subscribe to the security mailing lists for each, there's nothing on those servers that keeps me awake at night.

@Condor I take that back then

I mean in a sense it's like turning the game difficulty a bit higher. Tbh, I'm still waiting for the day where an update breaks something in my system

@Awlex I am comfortable with Gentoo on a server if difficulty is what I'm looking for because it appears to be reasonably stable. Arch on the other hand is way too high maintenance. One is what I consider a fun challenge, the other is one where I'd consider myself a masochist.

Arch is great. I run it on my laptop and desktop as a daily driver. I'd never run Arch on a server though.