I use a lot of different Operating Systems around my homelab including Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
My primary personal laptop is a T450. I realized today that is has been over 3 years since I installed Arch Linux on it. That time has gone by fast and I have had exactly ZERO issues with keeping it up to date.
#archlinix being difficult maintain long term is a myth I keep hearing repeated. I have not had any problems running arch on my T450 and I have no plans to switch.
@norrist Congratulations! I'm on T460P and LMDE, I am also very satisfied with my choice. I've never installed anything else than Debian-based (incl Ubuntu-based) during the few years I've explored Linux & Co. What I hear is that Archbased are more difficult, needs more knowledge to use and maintain incl applications, than eg LMDE – but no experience myself. Good to hear your Linux distro works well for you!
@norrist I have a vmware vm that I’ve been running manjaro on for 3-4 years now, only issues due to vmwaregfx. An nvidia based system that’s been running arch for 6 years now, an xps13 (older) running arch, and a couple of debian boxes. Absolutely none of the arch or manjaro systems have ever had an issue with stability or upgrades. I haven’t had issues only with vmwgfx and the nvidia driver having incompatibilities with software I run, which isn’t an #archlinux issue.