• aard@kyu.de
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    1 year ago

    Is Arch really that popular nowadays?

    I mainly know it from the colleague who switched to it back in 2006, and then we made fun of him over the next year for all the stuff that was broken on his system, and worked on ours. He only was let off because a new hire went for Gentoo, and had stuff even more broken.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Arch is great these days, and in my own experience rarely breaks just due to updates if you set it up correctly.

      But unless you’re willing to configure a lot of stuff to your own liking, it’s probably best to use some other, more mainstream distro.

    • guywithoutaname
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      1 year ago

      I do like Arch. I say the biggest problem I have with it is how basic it is out the box. I like that, but I sometimes find it challenging, especially toward the beginning, to find the package I’m missing to get a certain functionality.

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        1 year ago

        Isn’t that both a feature and a potential difficulty? I’ve never used it, but I would think that’s part of the appeal for some people/use cases.

        • guywithoutaname
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          1 year ago

          Yeah it’s definitely a pro and con at the same time. More of a pro for me.