Difference is, on Debian you can leave machine without updates for few months, while on arch you will have troubles if you don’t update for a week, also if you install Linux for your relative, it’s better to do debian based distro because of this update cycle since normies don’t update their machines every other day, source: I’m daily driving Linux for 9 years on all my machines and some of them lay around untouched for months, also installed mint on relatives PCs
I heard this so many times that I really believed arch was so brittle that my system would become unbootable if I went on vacation. Turns out updating it after 6 months went perfectly fine.
Difference is, on Debian you can leave machine without updates for few months, while on arch you will have troubles if you don’t update for a week, also if you install Linux for your relative, it’s better to do debian based distro because of this update cycle since normies don’t update their machines every other day, source: I’m daily driving Linux for 9 years on all my machines and some of them lay around untouched for months, also installed mint on relatives PCs
I heard this so many times that I really believed arch was so brittle that my system would become unbootable if I went on vacation. Turns out updating it after 6 months went perfectly fine.
I once updated an Arch that was 2y out of date, and it went perfectly fine.
But didn’t it take a while? Not that it wouldn’t take a while on Debian but Debian doesn’t push so many updates
Not really. It’d just skip all the incremental updates and go straight to latest.