As i posted elsewhere yesterday, i've just returned to my Arch Plasma boot after a pleasant three-week holiday in my Sparky [Debian Testing] Cinnamon boot. This arrangement is working out just great for me.
Having parallel Nix boots each setup fully to support my desired daily doings, nimbly facilitates me taking these occasional holidays without missing a beat, whilst also allowing me to keep my hand in with alternative distros & DEs.
Furthermore, when systemic papercuts occasionally occur due to some improperly baked core package/s updates, i then have a viable choice -- i can elect to do battle with the errant problems, or i can temporarily boot to my other system & wait out the arrival of the inevitable improved later package versions. Whilst i frequently, mostly, do the former, there are times when it's not worth it & taking the holiday is better.
Arch's Plasma is now at v5.21.5, & is mostly great for me, whereas on my Tower the big jump from 5.19 to 5.20 unfortunately gave me measures of papercut unhappiness along with the contentment of improvements. Some of those "bummers" persisted with early 5.21.x [with some new ones added as a "bonus"], but this latest dot-update made more recuperative strides. Having the option to fully-productively go hang out in Sparky for periods during that phase, has been very nice.
Much like a pre-ZA holiday in the real world however, whilst holidays can be great, there's really no place quite like home [clicks heels of ruby-red shoes...].
