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Artix Install - 7.5 years!

It has been 7.5 years for the Artix install on my main workstation. The hardware changed in between, the installed Artix is still the same. This shows you how stable a rolling distro can be. Start of the Calamares.log on my system:

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2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: Using Calamares settings file at "/etc/calamares/settings.conf" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: Using Calamares branding file at "/usr/share/calamares/branding/artix/branding.desc" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: WARNING: the selected branding component does not ship translations. 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: Loaded branding component "artix" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: STARTUP: initQmlPath, initSettings, initBranding done 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: STARTUP: initModuleManager: module init started 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: STARTUP: initModuleManager: all modules init done 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: STARTUP: initJobQueue done 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: Available size QSize(1920, 1048) 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]:   Proposed window size: 1024 540 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: STARTUP: CalamaresWindow created; loadModules started 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: Initial locale  "en_US" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [8]: Translation: Calamares: Using system locale: "en_US"
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: Welcome string false "Artix Linux \"rolling\"" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: ViewModule "welcome@welcome" loading complete.

To be really honest, I do frequent Clonezilla images of my "/" and "/boot/efi" partitions before updating the system and I had to roll back a few times. Other than that, most stable Linux version I have ever used.

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Reply #1 –
To your point on Clonezilla, I too use it regularly.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Reply #2 –
In 2018, I installed and tested Artix in a virtual machine.
After a year, I was very satisfied with this distribution and installed it on several PCs.

On my main PC, I have two Artix partitions.

Since 2019, I've rarely needed to use the rescue partition.

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: recluce – on
It has been 7.5 years for the Artix install on my main workstation. The hardware changed in between, the installed Artix is still the same. This shows you how stable a rolling distro can be. Start of the Calamares.log on my system:

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2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: Using Calamares settings file at "/etc/calamares/settings.conf" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: Using Calamares branding file at "/usr/share/calamares/branding/artix/branding.desc" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: WARNING: the selected branding component does not ship translations. 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: Loaded branding component "artix" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: STARTUP: initQmlPath, initSettings, initBranding done 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: STARTUP: initModuleManager: module init started 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:31 [1]: STARTUP: initModuleManager: all modules init done 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: STARTUP: initJobQueue done 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: Available size QSize(1920, 1048) 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]:   Proposed window size: 1024 540 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: STARTUP: CalamaresWindow created; loadModules started 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: Initial locale  "en_US" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [8]: Translation: Calamares: Using system locale: "en_US"
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: Welcome string false "Artix Linux \"rolling\"" 
2018-01-30 - 01:42:32 [1]: ViewModule "welcome@welcome" loading complete.

To be really honest, I do frequent Clonezilla images of my "/" and "/boot/efi" partitions before updating the system and I had to roll back a few times. Other than that, most stable Linux version I have ever used.



My first install was from the base.  I'm not sure there was a Calamares installation at the time, but shortly after I tried that and it failed to work.  And to this day, I find Calamares a hit and miss thing.  It is great when it works.  I know how to install from scratch so it helps me when it fails. My /boot/efi is dated Dec 31 1969 ... that might not be right.

I had to work with the boot configuration because the gpt partitioning didn't like recommended configurations and I posted the correction here a long time ago.  It has been rock solid since then.  OTOH I eliminated a lot of the background noise that produces protection errors as I have just wmaker running on X and use ALSA sound. 

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Reply #4 –
Mine's not quite as old. Seems I still have a complete pacman transaction history:
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$ sed 2q /var/log/pacman.log
[2020-10-16T23:05:44+0000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --noconfirm base openrc'
[2020-10-16T23:05:44+0000] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
$ ls -sh /var/log/pacman.log
1.4M /var/log/pacman.log
Never needed rescue operations except due to my own ill-advised experiments. This was also my first attempt at a partitionless setup. It's been great.

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
My first install was from the base.

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stat / | tail -1
"Wer alles kann, macht nichts richtig"

Artix USE="runit openrc slim openbox lxde gtk2 qt4 qt5 qt6 conky
-gtk3 -gtk4 -adwaita{cursors,themes,icons,fonts} -gnome3 -kde -plasma -wayland "

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: lq – on
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
My first install was from the base.

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stat / | tail -1



yeah  - that is weird.  It says my root is from August of 2023.  This workstation was purchased for my Graduate degree work which started in 2014 and finished in 2017.  The truth is that everything before COVID seems like a blur.  But my thesis
http://www.nylxs.com/docs/thesis/sources/thesis.pdf

was dated 2017, April.  It was all done, I thought on artix.  It could had been done on non-systemd Manjaro, but I seem to remember its life wasn't that long.

Regardless, there is no way this was installed on 2023.

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Reply #8 –
Quote from: gripped – on
Congrats.
This sprang to mind and though not directly comparable it's funny enough (to me at least).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY


It is a bit like that because I can see I did the initial artix install in August 2017 from the Manjaro system.  I did the migration on the workstation and the server.  The workstation had a failed update in 2023 and I just backed up my home directories and email and reinstalled rather than trying to fix it.  I have a very vague memory of this, but it is in my journal.

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Reply #9 –
Not bad, not bad!

In general, I often heard that arch is unstable and often breaks, but in practice it turned out that this is just a blatant lie!

I am that clumsy user who somehow managed to break several versions of ubuntu, debian, some distribution based on slackware, slackware itself, manjaro, but not arch and artix! I don’t even make backup copies of the system (don’t repeat!) for several years, because everything is great for me!

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Reply #10 –
Well, in all  fairness, there is always a risk of things breaking on updates (this is where the quick Clonezilla image comes in) with a rolling distribution. But over the years, I have needed to roll back fewer and fewer times, Artix has become a lot more resilient with updates.

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Reply #11 –
 stat / | tail -1
 Birth: 2017-09-22 16:56:14.000000000 -0400