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Arch I'm sure is a great choice when someone else (Valve, in this case) is configuring and administrating it for you. When you're doing it yourself, every Arch

Arch I'm sure is a great choice when someone else (Valve, in this case) is configuring and administrating it for you. When you're doing it yourself, every Arch user seems to have a list of things which "aren't working today". I've been using openSUSE Tumbleweed for a while, which has all the advantages of a rolling distribution like Arch (and their repo is enormous), but also comes with Yast, their frankly amazing graphical administration tool which handles everything. It doesn't seem that common, at least in the USA, but I recommend it.

COGlory 5y ago
I hopped around distros, starting with Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and then I switched to Manjaro (my first rolling release) because I was sick of ppas for newer software. Manjaro broke frequently, however. Finally found my home on openSUSE Tumbleweed. It's great because I have tons of new packages, but honestly it's never broken once for me (and if it did, btrfs snapshots would let me quickly revert). I think that having SUSE behind it maybe helps the stability? But I have no concrete knowledge of the testing process that goes into Tumbleweeed.
- doubled112 5y ago
  OpenSUSE does a fair amount of automated testing before publishing a new snapshot. http://open.qa/ http://open.qa/ here, and the OpenSUSE specific instance here https://openqa.opensuse.org/ https://openqa.opensuse.org/
maxnoe 5y ago
The thing is, if it doesn't worl on arch, chances are good that it doesn't work on any other Linux Desktop OS.
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  That has not been my experience at all.
  - InvertedRhodium 5y ago
    Got any examples?
    - yashd-dev 5y ago
      Yes, Ms teams it only works of debian or RHEL Based distros , and yes i have tried the aur it was broken . That's why i moved from Manjaro to Debian
      - InvertedRhodium 5y ago
        Interesting - I run MS Teams on Arch with no issue. The only complaint I've got is that changes to the PulseAudio devices don't seem to be detected without restarting the application - can be a PITA when you plug/unplug a USB microphone.

COGlory 5y ago

I hopped around distros, starting with Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and then I switched to Manjaro (my first rolling release) because I was sick of ppas for newer software. Manjaro broke frequently, however. Finally found my home on openSUSE Tumbleweed. It's great because I have tons of new packages, but honestly it's never broken once for me (and if it did, btrfs snapshots would let me quickly revert). I think that having SUSE behind it maybe helps the stability? But I have no concrete knowledge of the testing process that goes into Tumbleweeed.

doubled112 5y ago
OpenSUSE does a fair amount of automated testing before publishing a new snapshot. http://open.qa/ http://open.qa/ here, and the OpenSUSE specific instance here https://openqa.opensuse.org/ https://openqa.opensuse.org/

maxnoe 5y ago

The thing is, if it doesn't worl on arch, chances are good that it doesn't work on any other Linux Desktop OS.

LeoPanthera 5y ago
That has not been my experience at all.
- InvertedRhodium 5y ago
  Got any examples?
  - yashd-dev 5y ago
    Yes, Ms teams it only works of debian or RHEL Based distros , and yes i have tried the aur it was broken . That's why i moved from Manjaro to Debian
    - InvertedRhodium 5y ago
      Interesting - I run MS Teams on Arch with no issue. The only complaint I've got is that changes to the PulseAudio devices don't seem to be detected without restarting the application - can be a PITA when you plug/unplug a USB microphone.