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Have you met our lord and saviour Arch Linux?
by gregknicholson 8y ago
Have you met our lord and saviour Arch Linux?
- brianpgordon 8y agoRight, Arch is the perfect distro for someone who wants their system to leave them alone and stop changing things.
- westmeal 8y agoI used to think this way too until I tried it. Honestly not as bad as I was told.
- brianpgordon 8y agoI used it as my primary home machine for half a year or so back in c. 2013. I dreaded running pacman -Syu. It seemed like every time, some package required my attention to keep working.
- antisthenes 8y agoWhen Windows 7 support ends, I'm very seriously considering switching to Linux as a main OS and keeping the W7 machine for air-gapped single player games. Probably not Arch though, something a bit more user friendly, like Elementary OS or Solus Linux
- gregknicholson 8y agoAs a Gnome purist, I like Fedora. It's curated almost as strongly as elementary and Solus, just with a different set of software. Ubuntu is always a reasonable choice; I'd recommend it if you don't mind a slightly clunkier user experience, especially around installing software. Compared to Fedora, it comes with a larger range of worse-curated software packages, aimed much more at dabblers rather than end-users. The breadth of documentation for Ubuntu is as much a curse, because it's now mostly obsolete. (I've never actually used Arch Linux; it just has a very strong reputation of helpful guidance, but DIY and no babysitting.)