• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is “it works” the average experience of an Arch user?

    Edit: Folks, I know it wasn’t clear, but this was rhetorical. I love the passion that motivates all of you to share your personal experiences - it’s what keeps Linux moving forward… But you beautiful bastards need to chill.

    • Séra Balázs@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      I say it’s rather a „it mostly works” experience, but as a twist, if anything goes wrong, you can fix it very easily

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      Base Arch can be fussy, but that’s because there’s a lot to set up, so many opportunities to forget things and only discover them later.

      I ran Artix on a laptop for about a year; that was a constant PITA, although I still value their goals.

      But EndeavourOS has been an entirely different matter. It’s a “just works” Arch derivative.

      I had so many fewer problems with Arch that I went through the effort to convert my 3 personal cloud servers from Debian to it. I went through a lot of work to replace thee default Mint on an ODroid to Arch, and it’s been so much better. I put Endeavor on the last two non-servers I installed. So, yes, I personally find out far more reliable and easier to work with than Ubuntu, Debian, or Mint.

      That said, I had dad install Mint on a new computer he bought because I had to do it over the phone and he never, ever, upgrades his packages, and almost never installs anything. If all I’m going to do is install it once and then never change anything, Mint is easier. But for a normal use case where I’m regularly updating and installing software, Arch is far easier and more reliable.

      • Séra Balázs@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 months ago

        There’s no hate for anybody or anything, I just realised some distros have marketing, most have at least a pretty website, but for arch, you need to search for the download button when you want to install it, and the only thing that spreads archlinux is the word of mouth(or something similiar in the comment section), and this mostly involves spamming „arch btw”

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Arch is so great, bro! The AUR has everything!
    With yay, it’s so easy, bro!
    Update Arch
    yay breaks
    stays broken for days

    Any other distro that had a broken package manager for 3 days, ever?