Another minor inconvenience could have been avoided by reading the Arch Linux news feed before upgrading.
@mckinley@mckinley.cc Could have happened to me as well. 🥴 I only updated just now, so I knew what was coming. 😅 (I don’t run any Linux boxes with SSH available on a public interface.)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I actually had to hook a monitor and a keyboard up to my server. This is the instability they talk about on Arch, which I’ve been experiencing a little more lately.
@mckinley@mckinley.cc what happened? I have been tempted to install EndeavourOS to play a bit with it. Should I not? 😅
Oh, this? https://archlinux.org/news/the-sshd-service-needs-to-be-restarted-after-upgrading-to-openssh-98p1/
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club That would be really useful. I can’t train myself to do yay -Syuw and I don’t like having one package name on each line when confirming the upgrade.
@bender@twtxt.net Yes, that one. It’s not a big deal unless you use Arch on a remote machine. You can expect some minor issues like this, but the Arch team does a good job of smoothing these things over with prompt updates and announcements like that if they can’t.
EndeavourOS is alright, better than Manjaro in my opinion. If you’re going to use an Arch based distribution, I would recommend just installing regular Arch. They have an install script now that makes the installation very easy if you want an average setup, but the manual installation isn’t that hard if you want something more specialized.
The Arch manual installation also gives you valuable knowledge on how to fix the system if it breaks.
One more point, not necessarily for @bender@twtxt.net but for anyone else reading this. If you don’t want to use the command line, Arch probably isn’t for you. Linux Mint is much closer to a command-line-free distribution. Don’t be afraid of the command line, though. The command line is good for you.