When I say arch I mean the arch distro and all of its offspring.

Endeavouros

Arch-gui

Manjaro

Artix --maybe not though

My first enjoyable distro was manjaro, the manjaro element less so but using arch clicked for me. But even so if my first experience was using arch and archinstall then yes its not the easiest but its also not that difficult, arch is treated like a boss battle in darksouls.

So when a pre configured GUI arch is recommend I would like to see less scar mongering.

  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    9 months ago

    Yeah, if you’re not up to the challenge of maintaining your own system, Arch isn’t for you.

    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      102·
      9 months ago

      I’d agree, but this is true of most distros tbh. Like obviously loads of stuff is gonna break on arch just due to the bleeding edge release cycle, but I had fewer issues running arch than Ubuntu, mainly due to PPAs and snap bullshit

      • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
        1·
        8 months ago

        obviously loads of stuff is gonna break on arch just due to the bleeding edge release cycle

        I keep reading this as if it was fact, but Arch never broke anything for me in several years.
        You do need to do a bit more to maintain it, but IMO it’s less effort than a release upgrade on a versioned distro. And if you automate it you only need to deal with it once.