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I'm afraid simple and easy don't go well together. You either have automation to make things easy to the user, but then it's no longer simple. Or you require

• rmbyrro 4y ago
  True. Maybe there's a viable middle ground between Ubuntu & Arch. Perhaps with a focus on the audience (e.g. a web dev distro), it becomes viable to make sensible compromises on both (easiness & simplicity) that result in a good combination for the user.
  • cykros 4y ago
    Slackware. Only reason I've seen to use anything else is if doing a full desktop installation doesn't make sense, as the installer is largely geared around just installing most everything, or perhaps leaving out a category or two. Beyond that, the documentation is clear, and it's made as easy to use as makes sense without just hiding things behind a black box so that when things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong. Nice to see some of these newer distros like Arch and Ubuntu are coming along though; choice is good.
  • jamespo 4y ago
    Have you looked at EndeavourOS?
  • tshanmu 4y ago
    kali
    • pantalaimon 4y ago
      That's just Debian
  • zdragnar 4y ago
    For general audiences, Manjaro (arch base) fits your ask pretty well, I think. I ran into problems installing arch, switched to Manjaro, and never looked back. Pop_os! is coming from the other direction, but I found I prefer using i3/sway instead as I had trouble configuring certain things about pop.
  • rthomas6 4y ago
    Perhaps Manjaro? It tries to be a more user-friendly Arch-like distro.