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If you're going to switch to Linux, why would Arch Linux be your first pick? I'm sure there are even harder distributions to choose from but wouldn't Ubuntu, Fe
by cpburns2009 9y ago
If you're going to switch to Linux, why would Arch Linux be your first pick? I'm sure there are even harder distributions to choose from but wouldn't Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint be much easier to start with? I like Arch Linux and I'm currently running it on my laptop. I like to think I'm a moderately experienced user after using Linux for 9 years, but it took me around 2 weeks of evenings tinkering with Arch to get it fully set up. That just seems like a terrible choice if you're coming from a Mac.
- beojan 9y agoAnd having failed with that (though I don't know why he had to write his own PKGBUILD) why would you then try FreeBSD and NixOS?
- pkilgore 9y agoI do all my dev work on Linux; hacked it for ten years. I've used a bunch of different debians and red hat in the process (most recently a highly modified elementaryOS). It took 40 minutes with Arch before I decided to give up. I do like their wiki though.