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Reading comments, it's soo strange that I never borked my system once during nearly 7 years of linux usage. Playing games were frustrating, but it was improved a lot by now. My ubuntu never failed to boot, the only audio problem I had was with the mic. Even better, KDE Connect introduced new workflow to me. I wonder why my computer always boots well even when it gets borked during shutdown..
Nowadays, I use my own hand-rolled DE. It still refuses to break on me. Guess I am really lucky or something.
You're not alone. I've been rocking Arch for a few years now, and I only reinstalled it when I changed computers. It just works.
Same here. My issues atm are that NixOS is just too darn complicated sometimes… But that doesn't mean stuff gets borked.
I've borked my system a few times, but I know it was always because I messed with stuff that I didn't understand. My system is much more stable now that I learned those early lessons.