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These aren't problems to that community, it's a difference in goals. Ease of use and simplicity are very often trade-offs. I use Arch at home and Ubuntu server
by freshhawk 10y ago
These aren't problems to that community, it's a difference in goals. Ease of use and simplicity are very often trade-offs.
I use Arch at home and Ubuntu servers and containers at work. Ubuntu auto-detects and auto-configures much more than Arch does but that last 10% can be a hell of fight with Ubuntu due to the added complexity.
- zdkl 10y agoI followed a similar path. I love Arch but in terms of reliability I don't trust that I'll have a workable system at an arbitrary time. Manjaro is a good compromise between Arch and Ubuntu goals I believe: it works with a well rounded desktop environment on top of Arch out of the box and there wasn't much to rip out off the fresh install. I've had several (non technical) friends report basically no issues on either install process or daily use. Not to go all fanboy on this thread but that distro restored my faith in using linux on a general use laptop.
- aw3c2 10y agoAs long as you don't update at random times, the "workability" should be very predictable. And breaks on updates have become extremely rare for me, although of course it depends on your packages and configuration.
- zdkl 10y agoIndeed. That and not installing packages on a whim!
- anonbanker 10y agoWhat Manjaro did for Arch, Calculate did for Gentoo. I don't even mind the occasional package compile, as most is binary-based, and everything just works.