Yeah, I would say broken if it wont boot to a normal userspace. Like if you need to insert a recovery tool, or even just login as root and unfuck something before you can get your X/Wayland session up, or if applications start crashing because toolFoo has some critical bug.

But the last time that happened was on Debian when I tried to write a fstab file manually without reading the manual. Also this was the era of CD drives and no multi PC households. Learned a valuable lesson on the ride back from the library, printed documentation in hand haha.

I think people might be saying their system broke when a specific, non critical, application doesn’t work after an update based on an interaction here.

That does become more common if you start installing third party software and/or use less common/recommended tools. Personally I wouldn’t consider that breaking, but I guess to a casual person it might not be clear that rolling upgrade systems have this risk and the weirder your system gets the more familiar you should be with backups and rollbacks.

Because vegan bashing and arch bashing have in common having broadly stupid opinions ;)

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/proton-vpn-gtk-app/ doesn’t list a particular version of python in deps.

Seems like the proton team made a mistake /shrug. Not exactly a system breaking though, it’s a third party piece of software not being kept up to date.

just roll back till they maintain it. Normal enough procedure

Is the protonVPN package maintained by the arch team? Or did you install it on your own?

If the latter you can’t rely in pacman to know about dependencies you never told it about or took steps to ensure where met.

What are people doing that breaks their computers? I have used arch for like 15 years now and nothing ever goes wrong?

The closest would be on my desktop sometimes nvidia drivers are in a state that breaks display reinit on wake from sleep but my thinkpad is always fine.

Seriously who are you weird computer vandals going around and breaking everything all the time? What do you do?

You can download the model, you do not have the source of the model.

It is similar to releasing a compiled software app as shareware vs publishing your source code.

Lol, most games I own don’t run on windows without substantial tweaks and compatibility patches. Even then often games are buggy.

A game with texture issues on windows is badly made, a game with texture issues on linux is a game that doesn’t run properly on linux /shrug

teaching an ex GF to use a new Linux PC for the first time. (Put it together as a wedding gift)

very cunning revenge!

vegan theory club defedded world and while I miss some content the quality of commentator went up dramatically. Yeah I see some stuff I disagree with and I’m sure I bother some people too, sometimes accidentally ;) but that place is a fucking cesspit.

I downvote because I disagree.

This is why downvotes are mostly spam lmao. They have more to do with how popular something this than the substance of the post. It is also impossible to distinguish good faith criticism and reactionary suppression.