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I am honestly thinking the same thing. Still a bit hesitant as I mainly use Linux for work.
by bhhaskin 6y ago
I am honestly thinking the same thing. Still a bit hesitant as I mainly use Linux for work.
- jefft255 6y agoSame for me. ROS in particular only supports Ubuntu officially; although I know people can run it on Arch, it’s much more hacky and you have to build every package from source.
- knowhy 6y agoThere are packages for ROS in the aur. And there are wrappers for the commands needed to install packages from AUR. To install ros on my system I just need to execute pacaur -S ros-noetic-desktop-full In this case it will indeed compile the package with cmake. But there are also many binary packages on the aur. The user experience is not like Gentoo. I have never had problems finding a package with Arch.
- jefft255 6y agoI wasn't aware of that, thanks!
- 6AA4FD 6y agoI would try fedora or centos. They have good stability and documentation. In my admittedly limited experience centos has worked better for me than debian or ubuntu.
- 1_player 6y agoI have returned to Linux after a few years on macOS, and tried Fedora 32: it's interesting, but I did not like: - The hassle you have to do to install "non-free" software. - It's basically RHEL unstable: plenty of opinionated, bleeding-edge software choices that are either unsupported [1] or very much undocumented, unless you can find some help on the actual RHEL guides. - COPR (user packages) is worse than Ubuntu's PPA, both of which are much worse than Arch Linux's AUR. 1: Running Docker on Fedora 32 is non trivial because of how firewalld is configured and because Fedora decided to go all in on nftables. Sure, it's the future, but Docker hasn't got the memo yet. Nor the memo about cgroups2.