@kimapr @RustyCrab @sneeden @SuperDicq @skylar @sapphire You have the freedom to not update and things will never break.

Yes, Arch is a broken meme distro.

On Gentoo-libre, for decent software, you can update only a single package without issues and load in whatever custom ebuilds you want.


windows 10 has forced updates and good luck shutting down without updating.

Whether you get an update that breaks things or not is up to luck (it also has a rollback feature implemented for the semi-regular occurrence of failed updates, but the rollback can fail and leave you with a broken system).

windows has many critical unfixed bugs (that most people by chance don't run into, but many people do and then promptly forget about if they manage to fix it) - for example opening the file manager can crash the whole explorer.exe and that bug usually cannot be fixed without a reinstall.