MyNameIsRichard

That's not real, I hope.

Your computer is more powerful than machines that sent humans to the moon

My microwave is more powerful than the machines that sent humans to the moon.

I’d say one issue in 8 years is a stellar track record!

Yeah, it's a pretty good track record. It was definitely a failure of communication in that instance, but iirc, they ended up rolling the change back a couple of days later.

I used Tumbleweed for eight or so years before switching to Endeavour and it only really bit me hard once. Update, reboot, and sudo no longer worked! If I had spent a bit more time going through the mailing list, I could have made a simple configuration change before rebooting and saved a lot of stress! It affected nearly everybody who installed that particular image.

I don't use Arch, I use Endeavour because they took Arch and made it better. As to why I used yay as my example, there are two reasons:

1. It's what I use
2. It's nice to show how easy and simple it is when it's done properly and it normally takes 5 seconds, more when you have to do something. No wading through busy mailing lists hoping to spot an issue. I'm looking at you Debian and Tumbleweed!

Fixed release fixes known bugs before pushing packages.

So do rolling releases. What's your point?

Oh yes, the most mythical of software. Bug free.

I used to think that, then I learnt the truth. Now-a-days, I say that you may as well use a rolling release because it's not really any more work that a fixed release and you have up to date software.

USB A actually has three positions, right side up, wrong side up, and fuck you.

There's always one. Twenty years ago, or today, there's always one.