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I'm so glad I sticked to Arch Linux since early days. It felt wild in the beginning but now, after 10 years, I'm glad I took the risk. Yes, I have had a few sle
by ramtatatam 6y ago
I'm so glad I sticked to Arch Linux since early days. It felt wild in the beginning but now, after 10 years, I'm glad I took the risk. Yes, I have had a few sleepless nights trying to solve problems (90% of time caused by myself, remaining 10% caused by not reading wiki/docs/forum before doing stuff). And yes, Arch is not as polished and pretty as MacOS is but... I don't care, I do backend so I can survive without frontend niceness. In the same time I feel sorry for people who rely on tools from apple... it won't be as easy for them to switch.
- amalantony06 6y agoOr you could ditch Arch and go with a workstation specific Linux distribution like Fedora or Pop_OS that works out of the box with a lot of hardware. Gnome is more polished than the MacOS UI imho. Been using Fedora for a few months now and I haven't had a sleepless night yet. Everything just works.
- hunterloftis 6y agoThe Linux desktop experience is sufficiently hardware-dependent to make single-sample distro comparisons useless. As a counter-example, I recently installed Manjaro (Arch-based) over Pop OS because Pop was slow and buggy on my relatively high-end system. Aggregate data can at least give a sense of how likely a given distro is to provide a smooth experience: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
- ramtatatam 6y agoI always loved arch for its minimalistic approach. Well, maybe this is not entirely true since when we was pretty much forced to switch to systemd :) but it is still my favourite distro, even after those sleepless nights. I am maybe a weirdo but I don't regret a minute spent fixing my installation :)