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Sometimes picking your distro is kinda like picking your difficulty level.
arch is easier if you have some linux skills though, because of the awesome wiki
Did you just say that <whatever> is easy if you’re already good at it?
no i meant arch becomes easier than beginner distros when you have the base knowledge
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.
There is a reason why people switch from Arch to Fedora.
Because they are too lazy to read the wiki?
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.
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.
Gentoo and lfs be like
I ran Gentoo in high school. I think I spent more time tinkering on it than I ever did getting anything done, but damn was it fast. I ripped support out for everything except for my hardware.
Ive never had my DE uninstall after an arch update. Genuinely had no idea that was a problem for anyone until i saw that meme
in the right meme I believe the nvidia driver borked
I updated to nvidia v550 recently. Got a blank tty screen right after login to gnome/wayland. Rebooted the computer and login to gnome/x11, no issue. Logout and relogin to gnome/wayland, no issue. Yay, I guess?
One time, on endeavour, Xorg stopped working for some reason after an update. Had to look up how to manually switch to wayland, adding to the tower of ducttape that is my system.
The NVIDIA drivers getting removed during an update has happened to me THREE times in the last 3 months. In that same time frame I saw an LTT video where they had the same problem, and now this meme with the same problem again. What the actual heck is going on here? I just run the system update command and it says it has to uninstall the drivers due to some conflict with a system package. Then it reboots to the screen in the right image above. Im still trying different distros and configurations but it’s almost enough to make me give up. As lame as windows is I can at least expect an update not to completely brick my system (most of the time).
Every operating system sucks. It’s just that they differ in what aspects they suck in.
All software sucks.
Here’s a list of operating systems that suck:
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/os-suck
I don’t think anyone on the left is claiming that Arch has the same level of complication as Windows
Today I updated and now one of my cores is at 100% and the fans on my laptop won’t shut up.
I wonder what the experience would be like if one used bleeding edge windows / windows nightly.
Did you just … license a comment?
