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I too went from Arch to Fedora and life is easier now. It's astonishing just how well Arch works, but maintaining it is still a lot of work. I'm pretty busy an
by lima 9y ago
I too went from Arch to Fedora and life is easier now. It's astonishing just how well Arch works, but maintaining it is still a lot of work.
I'm pretty busy and spent too much time fixing my Arch machine, which outweighed the time I was saving.
I still have an Arch laptop and many Arch virtual machines for playing CTFs and HAM radio stuff.
Flatpak is a fine replacement for AUR in many cases, and it's more secure, too (if you keep an eye on the permissions set in the manifests - many specify --filesystems=home).
(do not use rpmfusion for VLC and the like - use Flatpak instead!)
- nickysielicki 9y agoI'm surprised you prefer arch linux for amateur radio stuff. Hamlib, wsjtx, and fldigi are packaged and in the main repositories on fedora, but the same is not true for arch linux. What software are you using that you find easier with arch linux?
- lima 9y agoMost important reason is that I haven't actually tried. Shack laptop is running Arch and a bunch of custom stuff that happened to compile fine on Arch. Your comment made me check, and even GNURadio and osmosdr is packaged in Fedora. Huh. Time to re-visit that decision :-)
- type0 9y agoFedora is THE distro for radio enthusiasts :-)
- jononor 9y agoThose are all available in AUR (source packages / recipes), both latest release and -git versions.