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Apparently he still believes other Linux desktop distros don't randomly brick themselves with updates every six months.
He's in for. A treat.
Well they don't.
They don't. I've been on the same Debian install on laptop and desktop for years. It'll make some odd decisions with packages sometimes, but it hasn't bricked.
I don't have hard data, but you don't see these kinds of posts about Debian, Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora.
My arch install doesn't brick itself by itself. Sometimes an update needs some manual intervention but that doesn't brick it.
That's why you use flatpaks and/or nix