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Yes. I really wish there was a distro I could just recommend to people that Just Works, but there isn't. I've been using Arch Linux for a decade and it's fantas
by coldpie 11y ago
Yes. I really wish there was a distro I could just recommend to people that Just Works, but there isn't. I've been using Arch Linux for a decade and it's fantastic, almost never breaks. But no way would I recommend it to someone who wasn't interested in editing config files by hand. But every other distro I've tried breaks horribly, especially during updates. And they make installing proprietary software (nvidia drivers, Steam) a huge pain. i understand the ideological bent, but I just want things to work. And, as a Wine developer and user, Arch is the only distro with a functional multiarch setup.
At the end of the day, I just don't recommend people switch to Linux.
- Frondo 11y agoI've had great success with Mageia as a distro that Just Works. They're the Mandrake offshoot from 2011, and on every laptop I've tried them on, everything worked out of the box, without configuration. For many of those laptops, I went through a major version upgrade (3->4, 4->5, etc), also without problem. It's basically because of Mageia that my linux hand-editing config know-how has atrophied down to nothing.