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Unfortunately this is still the reality of many Linux distros. On every update something breaks.

Just as an exMple I'm on arch myself and after last update if I use X11 screen saver with lock some service crashes and the computer cannot be unlocked.

Maybe next update will have a fix but then something else will be broken instead.

Linux (as in the kernel+user space of your choice) is a perpetual alpha. Has been for 30 years and will always be.

Whenever GTK/Gnome becomes reasonable stable it's time for a rewrite!

(And I'm a Linux user since red hat 7.2)

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I stopped to care since Flatpak. Pull down the same dependencies everywhere. Oh, disk usage, right. It's 2026, and BTRFS either compresses stuff and/or deduplicates.



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