

Yeah, Gentoo puts serious emphasis on that, I have to give them a credit. I liked it.
But yeah, I’d rather not have breaking changes in the first place.
Yeah, Gentoo puts serious emphasis on that, I have to give them a credit. I liked it.
But yeah, I’d rather not have breaking changes in the first place.
I see, thanks!
What’s the technical diffence between CrossOver and just running Wine/Proton?
If there’s none, doesn’t it make more sense to support Wine directly?
Blatant authoritarianism without proper elections and the consolidation of power, the Uyghur genocide, massive censorship, the Party not true to its name for decades, and a lot more.
China’s government is the classic, almost textbook example of “shut up and we’ll get you prosperity in exchange” (really driven in a big part by the demographic dividend) slowly turning into “now we have enough power to shut you up without giving anything in return”.
So, there’s a lot wrong with it. That’s not to say, for example, that it is much better in the US that straight up sees Nazis come to power, but one has to be ignorant to overlook the systemic issues within the CCP.
Some functionality (menus, networking) working not as expected, random glitches, bugs, instabilities…also, now coming from the experiences of others (wasn’t there at the time), one time even GRUB had an update that broke it on all systems with Arch, forcing many to halt updates. In my eyes, from personal experience and experiences of others, it got a reputation as a quite messy system.
Debian and Arch are both the most important community-driven distributions for the entirety of Linux ecosystem.
However, I feel like they are both reasonably funded already, and supported by big names.
In my opinion, it is important to support the smaller distributions that many people overlook.
That very setup is why I do not recommend it to newbies who don’t have someone experienced around. Debian, even Debian 12, is not holding your hand and directing you. You’ll have to figure a lot out by yourself, and this adds to the steep learning curve.
Also, a very slow update cycle means the newbie will be stuck with outdated packages (sure, flatpaks are there, but the base system will be old, like, very old). And new hardware might face issues.
To me, the perfect pipeline is something like Linux Mint, then Fedora, then either Arch derivatives or Debian, depending on what serves you best. Alternatively, if you don’t mind some challenge after an easy entry, start out with Manjaro and then get another Arch. But that one’s more controversial.
Honestly, as someone who ran Arch and its derivatives, no one should be running upstream Arch but the testers.
No amount of experience or expertise will save you from breaking it. It WILL break, and you’ll be mocked for that as well by “Arch elitists” who will then face the same issue.
That’s why Linux veterans are rarely using Arch. It’s good for its purpose, it’s very important both for downstream Arch and for the entire Linux community, but it is NOT the distro you should run on your PC.
Go Fedora. Go Debian. Go to the downstream distros if you’re strongly into Arch, take Garuda for example. Make your machine actually work.
To me, every distro that seriously requires you to read through all changelogs before updating is BS, and it doesn’t solve a basic problem. No one in their sane mind will do this, and the system will break.
That’s why, while I respect the upstream Arch, I’d say you should be insane for running it and trying to make things stable, and mocking people for not reading the changelogs is missing the point entirely. Even the best of us failed.
Arch is entirely about “move fast and break stuff”.
There are two types of thinking about it:
True :)
Probably the highest amount of derivatives, even if two-thirds are through Ubuntu lol
For me, Mint borked the network after an update. I never got to figure what was wrong - the local network worked, the Internet connection was there and other devices worked through the same router, remote IPs were unreachable so it’s not a DNS problem, etc.
But I might have had an edge case.
Depends on the use case. For example, I actually managed to bork Aurora to the unbootable state while trying to make a VPN work properly a while ago. It didn’t live long :D
If she wants a familiar experience and ease of switching, why not consider KDE or Cinnamon? Both are officially available within Debian.
In fairness, there are attempts to make Nix user-friendly, such as SnowflakeOS, featuring a lot of improvements including a graphical app store etc, but those are alpha and not ready for an average user.
Or Aurora/Kinoite, for a more familiar experience
Now that’s an extreme choice :D
Doing a lot of tech support, don’t you?
That is, if you have experience running immutable distros yourself and are able to serve as a tech support for them should they ever need it.
A lot is different under the hood, and general Linux knowledge doesn’t always help.
I’d rather recommend Manjaro to those who want to start out simple, but then get into the details of Linux.
Unless all you do is browsing, Manjaro starts easy but then has a steep curve because it’s still Arch, with the added issue of practically every Manjaro newbie ignoring warnings about AUR and getting to taste the consequences.
It will require you to work with the terminal, troubleshoot, and get to understand your system. This is not bad - that’s how I got into Linux and never looked back after all all, and I generally don’t join the “Manjaro bad” crowd - but this is not a bulletproof “SO distro”.
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