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I find Arch is very good for pets, but not cattle. I use it for my own desktop and laptop, but found using it for servers and non-techie family PCs creates some
by anotherevan 5y ago
I find Arch is very good for pets, but not cattle. I use it for my own desktop and laptop, but found using it for servers and non-techie family PCs creates something of a rod for my own back.
I use Ubuntu LTS (and lots of Ansible) for servers. Use to also do the same for non-techie PCs but tried Mint recently for a new PC for my Dad and found it excellent for that purpose.
This should in no way be seen as a slight against Arch. I absolutely love using it for my own computers. The rolling-release means it has been years since I've ever had to suffer through a version update that left things weird and leading to a, "Stuff it, gonna do a clean install and rebuild everything from scratch," weekend. Rolling releases and being reasonably close to the bleeding edge were the first things that attracted me to Arch.
The Wiki, the AUR and many other things have been pure gravy since then.