Comment by heywire

5 years ago

I’ve been using the Arch Linux Archive as a way to stick with a known stable system for a few weeks until I have time to dedicate to a system upgrade and correcting any issues that arise.

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simion314  5 years ago

How do you undo an app or subsystem after an update you don't like?

For example I upgrade my IDE but not in place, I keep previous version just in case the new one is buggy or they again moved shit around. For my main system I am on LTS and I upgrade if there is a need and not to get high on version numbers. For example I tested new versions of kernels and video drivers and end up on what feels right for me and stopped there. Sometimes the new video driver is more unstable then the older ones so I would never do a driver update without having a good reason and time to evaluate it.

  • dathinab  5 years ago

    Arch keeps a package cache of old packages, if you want to forever.

    So installing old packages is trivial (iff you had them installed before).