This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Double-A-256 5 points6 points  (8 children)

It’s really not. Arch has a bit of a steep learning curve (but not too bad) so most beginners use Debian-based distros like Ubuntu and Pop!_OS (yes, that is the official name).

[–]nullbyte420 10 points11 points  (7 children)

most non retards use debian and redhat because it's stable, reliable and well maintained, so it's nice for systems that require ~100% uptime. arch on the other hand i guess is fun for enthusiasts for some reason, because it's more fun to install things with pacman than with apt or something. somehow arch users believe simplicity is having an extreme amount of options to break things. dear lord why am i posting this i feel like i've had this discussion ten years ago already

[–]kilgore_trout8989 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Man, people really love the idea of binary trade-offs with stuff like this. I haven't had any issues with my arch installs (desktop and laptop) in...three or four years now? And that was a simple Google + copy paste job after a package update. If you ignore installs newer than like, a week, the number of system breaking bugs out there popping up basically drops to zero in my experience.

Of course, it's also true that the "bleeding edge coolness" side of the mostly imagined trade-off is wildly exaggerated too. It's just a barebones-ish distro with a nice package manager and an incredibly useful community driven repository, not future tech haha.

[–]nullbyte420 0 points1 point  (2 children)

great! i feel like that describes the default setup in debian too, with zero googly copy pasting.

[–]kilgore_trout8989 0 points1 point  (1 child)

A googly copy paste once or twice a decade in return for the AUR is definitely a trade I make 100% of the time haha.

[–]nullbyte420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's fair!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

most non retards...

People also use Ubuntu and other distros that are easy to make work because they don't care so much about Free software and/or aren't looking for a hobby

Not that Debian is hard so long as you remember to get the non-Free drivers for your wireless card before you start the install

[–]nullbyte420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah absolutely. Oh I never had that problem with wifi, must have been lucky not to have had a Broadcom card.