okay if Arch randomly breaks itself one more time I’m switching to Mint instead. it genuinely happens about 10% of the time that I try to update my system. infuriating

also I hate whoever decided that on Linux all .so files should be globally shared across all programs and automatically updated/deleted by the package manager and all dumped into one single clusterfuck of a directory. like no wonder everything is constantly breaking when the system is juggling dependencies like they’re flaming chainsaws

@kasdeya I'd suggest Fedora or Ubuntu (or Ubuntu flavours like Kubuntu, Ubuntu Cinnamon or Xubuntu) instead. Both are well established distros with strong support. Mint had quite a few troubles in the not so distant past and I've personally experienced a lot of packaging issues (like packages coming from too many sources without proper definition of dependencies resulting in installing a package which fails to install for weird conflicts reasons on a fresh install of the OS)

@shijikori oof that’s good to know - thank you! I might give Fedora a try if Mint ends up causing problems for me too

@kasdeya "the system is juggling dependencies like they're flaming chainsaws"

okay but we'd pay to see that show

@tempest @kasdeya cardboard box with a flaming chainsaw blade poking out one side labeled curl

@kasdeya arch is a fulltime job