Which one(s) and why?

  • Haven5341@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Which one(s)

    Arch.

    why?

    1. The Arch-Wiki
    2. I like pacman
    3. The Arch-Wiki
    4. I wanted a rolling release distribution.
    5. The Arch-Wiki
    6. It just works. I had only one more serious problem in ~8 years of running Arch
    7. Did I mention the Arch-Wiki?
    • sarchar@programming.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The Arch wiki really is amazing. It’s also still very useful for Linux stuff in general. The qemu page has come in handy more than a dozen times.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Is Manjaro good if I want in on this Arch goodness but don’t want to spend hours configuring stuff? Coming from Fedora

      • chepycou 🇻🇦@rcsocial.net
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        9 months ago

        @SubArcticTundra @Haven5341 I personally think Manjaro is a false good idea.

        You’ll have an “out of date” system (i.e., one-month-old) but packages from the AUR which are made for the up-to-date system.

        Quite a nightmare to use IMO (and that’s not talking about Manjaro leadership and certificates problems)

      • Haven5341@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        I haven’t used Manjaro myself but I heard that it is not as good as Arch. Rumors I heard where that it is not as solid as vanilla Arch. YMMV.

      • neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
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        9 months ago

        If you plan to use the AUR, absolutely not.

        If you don’t plan to use the AUR it’s probably fine, but I haven’t used it personally in the last few years so I’m not sure.

      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        I’ve been running it on my work laptop for 6 years at this point and I’ve had no major issues I couldn’t solve.

        Having said that, I recently switched my gaming rig over to endeavour and it’s been great.

      • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I really have bad luck with Manjaro, even when I don’t use the aur it always breaks on me. I just stick to arch, I started with it and I’m sticking with it.

      • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I haven’t used it personally but I’ve seen a lot of folks bad mouthing Manjaro.

        Lots of complaints of instability and it being poorly run project. One of the more objective complaints I’ve read is they have a slower replace process so security fixes then Arch.

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Endeavour is better for that, after the install you’ll have plain arch but with a bunch of stuff installed and already set up