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For any reason, running:

sudo pacman -S krita

or paru -S krita

Will always install Krita 6, which is a beta build. I know Arch is rolling release, but this is insane, this is a BETA BUILD. It's not meant for general use and it has given me some issues when I tried it out.

Can I install Krita 5? Please don't say Flatpak because the Flatpak version gives me some theming issues and the AppImage... Exists, but I would prefer to not have it separate from my other packages.

Summary, I like KDE, and I just want my system for normal stuff like drawing on Krita, browsing and coding on VSCode. But every distro I use has a problem:

Kubuntu's installer always failed. And I had problems with it in the past because of Bluetooth driver issues. Worse is that I have to uninstall Snap because I prefer Flatpak instead. Annoying but not unsolvable.

Debian works reliably but it's insanely old and constantly has drivers missing. Like my speakers.

Arch stuff, like CachyOS which was the most interesting one works out of the box perfectly. The problem is that is Arch. Updates can easily break my system at any moment if I am not careful. It's like having Pacman pointing a gun at me at all times.

Fedora seemed perfect... Until it deleted vmlinuz. Don't know how, but Fedora completely lost my trust after that

OpenSUSE was a interesting option if it hadn't such a horrible installer. It's even harder than installing Arch.

Linux Mint is perfect... If it supported KDE, that is. KDE is non negotiable since it's highly customizable.

I tried out even NixOS. Worked well for a while, but I was a bit annoyed of having to learn it's ways and the fact that most tutorials won't work on it.

UPDATE: After reading many comments and doing some research on my own, I've decided I'll just use Cachy with snapshots turned on. Turns out that updates with manual interventions are quite rare in comparison to what I've expected. Last one was on April on this year, only one in 2026, so that speaks by itself. Thanks for everyone who answered this post :)

TLDR: I wanna use CachyOS but I am a bit afraid of the system breaking easily.

What's up? I've been trying recently many distros and among them CachyOS sounds amazing for a variety of reasons, mainly that it installs my drivers out of the box unlike other distros I've used where installing drivers won't work due to free software philosophy and whatnot (looking at you, Debian)

It has worked amazingly ever since I installed it. But until now I remember "fuck, this is Arch, this is the most unstable thing in the world". Because it's already common for Arch to have random breakages on updates. It hasn't ever happened to me, but I've seen many people say it.

I am not really afraid of the command line, I am afraid of having a time bomb as my OS.

Anyway I wonder how many people can handle such a fragile system, so I ask, is it THAT fragile?

I at least had a horrible experience with Fedora where it became randomly unbootable without me installing a update. And it would only happen with Fedora specifically.

I wanna see your thoughts on this matter, thanks for reading!

Seriously, on boot it just throws a vague message about not being able to find vmzlinux (whatever that is). I didn't even updated, it just... Died.

I am thinking ever since yesterday that I should stop pretending I can do this. My drawings all look like shit, tutorials are always very confusing for me, and nothing ever makes sense.

I have so many things I need to learn to even start with my original goal with drawing. Which isn't even making money. And I'll likely will have to wait for a long time making pointless exercises to do so.

Quitting sounds comforting, at least I can accept is impossible and move on.