Arch user looks for ease of mind


Whelp, here I am. Been an Arch user for over 10 years now, and to this date I love it. But something is bothering me lately. Almost two years ago I jumped ship and completely switched to Wayland (using Plasma first, then Sway). I tasted modernism with all its features and it was sweet. But those last two years were a timeframe where I had to troubleshoot quite a lot compared to before where I used XFCE which was a very stable and reliant experience.

I am at a stage in my life where I do not have the time, nor the energy anymore to troubleshoot problems on a regular basis. I am now almost afraid of installing updates, because something new could fail again.
But I cannot go back anymore. Wayland is too sweet.

So although I still love Arch, maybe it is time for me to look for something else which gives me more ease-of-mind. I am specifically looking at immutable distros now since the concept seems to be exactly what I am looking for (stable, low maintenance, up-to-date packages, easy rollback). But I am a bit lost with the options and hope that you can help me with some recommendations.

  • I mainly browse the web, watch movies, game, do some scripting and run qemu VMs
  • I am comfortable with the terminal
  • I don't do fancy customizations
  • I don't like GNOME
    Distributions that I find interesting so far:
  • Aurora
  • Bazzite
  • NixOS

I am still trying to wrap my head around what the differences between NixOS and the other two are. Afaik, with Nix you can configure your system once (including what packages you want to use), save this configuration in a file, and load it up whenever I need to set it up again. And it seems to have the same concept of updates, such that you can easily roll back if needed.
But it seems to be aimed more at professional users and that I might overshoot at what I was aiming for.
So for someone who likes to setup a system once and then just wants to use it indefinitely without too much maintenance what would your recommendation/advice/critisism regarding my situation be?

Edit: thank you guys so much for all your recommendations and thoughts!
After some further analysis I decided to install Bazzite for the following reasons:

  • shares a lot of similarities with other Atomic distros
  • but has all the nice gaming related things pre-installed and configured and it uses a properly pre-installed Steam (not the Flatpak version) (the main reason why I chose it over Aurora, which would have been my next best pick)
  • my qemu virtual machines run perfectly fine (also the shared folder)
  • some dev stuff already pre-installed (don't think I need more than there already is)
  • fast and the OS feels like made out of one block, very consistent
  • I was ready to use my machine like I want to in basically no time
  • I already love the atomic way of handling updates
  • so far no issues

The only thing left for me to do is to figure out how to properly install SyncThing and Zerotier-One, then I am absolutely set.

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Noooo that's a terrible idea 😭

If six months from now you decide that you do need updates, Arch won't like the accumulated six months of updates coming all at once and might throw a tantrum.

Also not updating is a bad idea in general, you do need security updates for stuff like your browser. Please don't use an out of date system. If you want, install something like debian which will give you only critical updates that won't break stuff until the next release.

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Military Activity Along I-90 Westbound Towards i-405 Southbound 6pm June 4th 2025


Was curious if anybody knows what the military convoy along I-90 westbound past Bellevue towards I-405 Southbound? Lots of weird armored vehicles that had four large tires on each side instead of tracks, also asphalt paving equipment. Made it impossible to get from Bellevue to I-5 because they wouldn't let me in to get to the other side of the freeway.

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Kirn kommentiert ironisch: „Wir bringen jemanden dazu, George Orwell wegen Gedankenverbrechen zu verurteilen, und zwar in dem Buch, das er über Gedankenverbrechen geschrieben hat.“ Er schloss seinen Beitrag mit den Worten: „Also, danke für Ihre Warnung vor ‚1984‘. Es ist das verdammt ‚1984‘-mäßigste, was ich je gelesen habe.“

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Do they? I am sorry but I do not believe that and I feel that this child has been abused by those that have used her to push their propaganda. She is simply a tool. She is spouting dumb rhetoric that I grew tired of 30 years ago although then it was the Amazon rather than the car etc. but it was the same tactics and comments "If you do not do as I say the world will end in 5 years". The world did not end. Have you bought an electric car yet? Do you actually believe you will save the world in doing so? They produce more CO2 in their lifespan than an ICE car but that is not their point, they are throw away and they get the public to finally stop cutting down on pollution by buying things that last and buy cars that you throw away after 8 years. If people buy a new car every 8 years rather than every 30 profits soar. The ultimate in pollution. The world is much cleaner today than it was 30 years ago but that has nothing to do with people like her. It is because of normal people who do not shout at you. The earth will continue to get cleaner if we continue as we have but those abusing her want us to spend more to make them richer and stop caring about the planet. We can buy an electric car and believe we are saving the planet even though we are in fact increasing the pollution by 400%.

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Heute meldet die Tagesschau die RIAS Zahlen und titelt:
>>Zahl antisemitischer Vorfälle erneut stark gestiegen<<
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Leider tut RIAS alles dafür um so intransparent wie möglich zu sein, packt alles mögliche in ihre Begrifflichkeiten rein und zählt das selbe Ereignis mehrfach (zb mehrere Anzeigen von den selben oder gleichen Sticker).
So gut das Ansinnen mit RIAS auch war, die Zahlen als Fakten gemeldet, sind reichlich wertlos.

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In der oben verlinkten Studie kann man zahlreiche Beispiele nachlesen, aus den deutlich wird, welche Probleme deren Begrifflichkeiten haben, welche Schlagseite deren Arbeit hat, wie systematisch historische Fakten verzerrt werden, und internationales Recht geleugnet wird um zur gewünschten Interpretation zu bekommen.
Die fehlende Systematik, was, wann und wie gezählt wird macht die Zahlen reichlich unklar, und kaum nachprüfbar.

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C'est celui qui rêve de répéter le modèle « Churchill » et qui s'extasie sur la « victoire absolue », et derrière lui se trouvent Ben-Gvir et Smotrich !

C'est une malédiction sur leur « entité » !

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Let's change that? Spread this around.

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Wieso fällt man auf diesen Trick rein, wenn er so blatant offengelegt wurde?

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Israel versucht momentan überall Zeit zu schinden, damit sie ihre Mission, Palästina palästinenserfrei zu kriegen, vollenden können, bevor ihnen einer auf die Füsse tritt oder dem Massenmord endlich Einhalt gebietet.
Weiss nicht, aber langsam wären Waffenlieferungen an die Palästinenser, die Unterdrückten, notwendig. Existenznotwendig.
In der Ukraine machen wir das schon seit 3 Jahren, in Palästina schauen wir nur zu und fragen uns, was Israel als nächstes als antisemitisch bezeichnet.

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I am physically incapable of minding my own business so I asked for details. They confirmed that means the rooms are capable of recording now, but assured me that it is “completely deleted” in a “timely fashion”.

I’m with One Medical. So that means the steward of that data is AMAZON.

I am utterly horrified.

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Having his bombers taken off the chessboard is one thing, but the sheer humiliation Putin must be feeling right now must be sobering. Because if Zelenskyy’s drones can wipe out 40 of his strategic bombers, he’s probably not sleeping very soundly tonight in the Kremlin.
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Alain Riazuelo, juste la fin des mondes


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Sur le long terme, le devenir des résidus de l'évolution stellaire dépend de la stabilité de la matière. A nos échelles de temps d’observation, la matière est stable. Que se passerait-il si, à des échelles de temps beaucoup plus longues, la matière était en fait instable ?


Avec

->Alain Riazuelo, astrophysicien, chercheur CNRS à l'Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (IAP)

L’astrophysicien Alain Riazuelo vient de publier l’ouvrage "Dix scénario pour la fin du monde". Quelle est l’espérance de vie de l’univers ? Et connaîtra-t-il nécessairement une fin ?

Comme l’aurait dit le physicien Niels Bohr, "les prédictions sont très difficiles, surtout lorsqu’elles concernent l’avenir". Concernant le destin de l’univers, autant le dire tout de suite, l’incertitude est notre seule certitude. Et nous n’avons que des spéculations. Les derniers jours du cosmos sont-ils comptés ? Ou à l’inverse, est-il parti pour s’étendre indéfiniment ? Est-ce littéralement l’éternité qui l’attend ? Tentons de nous projeter dans ce futur extraordinairement lointain, à 1 gogol d’années, 10 puissance 100 ans. Et promis, ce ne sera pas triste !


Et si la matière était instable ?


Les articles d’Alain Riazuelo pour le magazine ‪Pour la Science

Vidéo. Le futur de l’Univers, Grand entretien d'Alain Riazuelo (Association Française d’Astronomie, 06/05)

Vidéo. Marathon des Sciences - Le futur de l'univers et la fin de toutes choses par Alain Riazuelo (Festival d’Astronomie de Fleurance, 2021)


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L'Univers aux limites de l'éternité (Pour la Science, 2010)

Dix scénarios pour la fin du monde par Alain Riazuelo (Tana Editions, 10/04)

Les trous noirs - Des objets obscurs enfin révélés par Alain Riazuelo (De Boeck Supérieur, 2024)

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Pourquoi la Terre est ronde par Alain Riazuelo (HumenSciences, 2019)

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Le titre du jour : La fin du monde par Youssoupha

Le générique de début : Goca dünya par Altin Gün

Le générique de fin : Pingpxng par Yin Yin


Chroniques

Le cèdre ramené en France par le naturaliste Bernard Jussieu

Comment Alain Riazuelo songe la fin cosmique

Songer rationnellement la fin cosmique est un exercice vertigineux. L'astrophysicien Alain Riazuelo nous invite en promenade au Jardin des Plantes pour confier sa démarche sensible sur l'idée de fin et d'éternité, dans cet espace symbolique et stimulant.


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The 1965 super hit “The Guillotine” by The Executioners has the problem that no one has ever heard the B-side, “I Was Wrong.”

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