Sometimes picking your distro is kinda like picking your difficulty level.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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arch is easier if you have some linux skills though, because of the awesome wiki
Did you just say that is easy if you're already good at it?
no i meant arch becomes easier than beginner distros when you have the base knowledge
There is a reason why people switch from Arch to Fedora.
Does that actually happen?
I work in a stem center as a computer science tutor and it has happened to myself as well as a tutee and a fellow tutor. We all moved because keeping up with a rolling release gets tiring when you have projects with deadlines. They call it the bleeding edge because it has a tendency to cut you.
I still love arch and there's parts of it I miss. Fedora just has a tendency to break less often.
Maybe it's just ubuntu being bad, but I've had way fewer issues on arch after switching to it. I had like 4 issues where my pc just wouldn't boot in the 3 years I was running Ubuntu, and I've had I think 1 in 4 years on arch.
Granted I've gotten more comfortable with linux in that time and have gotten better at fixing problems.
yeah I've had a lot of problems with ubuntu. our arch problems mostly stem from an update breaking compatibility for tools we use for things like the oscilloscopes in labs. fedora just works most of the time though
That's why I switched to Arch. Every stack overflow article to fix little problems with sound or screen tearing or whatever was a 1 line fix for arch or 4 to 6 lines for Ubuntu.
Every operating system sucks. It's just that they differ in what aspects they suck in.
All software sucks.
Gentoo and lfs be like
Ive never had my DE uninstall after an arch update. Genuinely had not idea that was a problem for anyone until i saw that meme
That's what happens when you pick a distro SPECIFICALLY TARGETED AT ENTHUSIASTS.
I've been daily driving it for 3 years and it's been no more or less stable than Ubuntu or Debian. Though i use a pretty minimal WM...
Arch is incredibly stable... As long as you know what you're doing. The majority of people who would move from windows to Linux expecting a similar experience won't find that in Arch, unless they're willing to become enthusiasts.
This is the OS version of "it works on my machine"
Lemme enable the [core-testing] repo! What could possibly go wrong? /s
But yeah, honestly, I agree with this, arch is incredibly stable as long as you know what you're doing.