I love Arch, I went the full custom DE route some years ago, I loved i3 to death. But in the end, it just took too much time to maintain and switched to KDE, and now everything works out of the box.
I think I can answer from my experience. It isn't that there is something to maintain, it is a mindset (mental illness) that you are never done, you always have to tinker, etc.
I had this problem with my Linux installations. Always thinking about ways to upgrade /update something that has no need for them.
Software is never still. Things change. One day, PulseAudio stops working. Another, the automount/udev script doesn't pick up a flashdrive any longer. There's always some little thing that needs attention, and attention is a scarse resource this these days.
I love Arch, I went the full custom DE route some years ago, I loved i3 to death. But in the end, it just took too much time to maintain and switched to KDE, and now everything works out of the box.
I don't understand what there is to maintain, actually ? Once my configuration was done I never needed to touch it again ?
I think I can answer from my experience. It isn't that there is something to maintain, it is a mindset (mental illness) that you are never done, you always have to tinker, etc.
I had this problem with my Linux installations. Always thinking about ways to upgrade /update something that has no need for them.
Software is never still. Things change. One day, PulseAudio stops working. Another, the automount/udev script doesn't pick up a flashdrive any longer. There's always some little thing that needs attention, and attention is a scarse resource this these days.
This is true, but I noticed those issues :
1/ can happen on just any system;
2/ have been dramatically decreasing the longer I use Arch
I remember a lot of issues like this happening in my first 6 months of Arch, but today I'm unable to remember when or what was my last problem !