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Might as well use Arch... One less level that could fail
by activiation 3y ago
Might as well use Arch... One less level that could fail
- unclad5968 3y agoMight as well develop your own OS
- constantcrying 3y agoInstalling Arch isn't hard if you have any kind of familiarity with Linux/Unix and you get far more flexible system by doing that.
- pdimitar 3y agoWhat's inflexible about Manjaro?
- constantcrying 3y agoIt is obviously a highly oppinionated distributon, which comes with a lot of pre installed software compared to Arch.
- gtop3 3y agoEstablishing a full DE on Arch is just a bit easier than on Gentoo, which is just a bit easier than compiling everything with make files. I've done all three. Arch isn't on the same level as Ubuntu, Fedora, or Manjaro on level of ease for instillation.
- memefrog 3y agoEstablishing a full DE on Arch is as simple as 'pacman -S plasma kde-applications sddm' followed by 'systemctl enable sddm.service'. Compiling everything manually would take a long time. You would need to work out all the dependencies, make everything, install everything, create all the configuration files... You'd then need to do this again every time a package is updated. You'd hope that every dependency had an RSS feed you could follow. For those that didn't you'd need to regularly check for updates. Arch requires two commands...
- mithrilskeleton 3y agoI used ubuntu for years and decided to give Arch a try on my media pc. Was way easier than I expected as it now has an installer, archinstall. Honestly the whole arch elitism thing no longer makes sense.
- memefrog 3y agoArch elitism doesn't really exist and never really has. People confuse "we aren't going to handhold you through the installation process if you can't be bothered reading the documentation" with elitism.