• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 days ago

    Well, I was thinking of moving to Linux full-time anyway now that my Windows install is obsolete. Any reason to avoid this distro? Past experience is with Ubuntu, Gentoo, and SuSE. I mostly game.

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      13 days ago

      Stick with something better known. Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, Ubuntu…If you’re just getting into this for the first time, full time, a niche meme distro is not your best choice.

      Linux Mint is best for stability, but will be a bit more “stale” for updates, since it’s based on Ubuntu LTS. It is an incredible distro and is my daily driver for mission critical desktops, like my work PC.

      Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed will both be great non-Arch distros that have fairly recent, yet stable updates.

      Arch is basically the king of rolling, bleeding edge, always on the latest and greatest, but since it’s bleeding edge…you might get cut on occasion.

      Ubuntu is Ubuntu. I don’t like Ubuntu, but it is the defacto “newbie/first timer” distro for a reason. Debian-based, lots of guides, both LTS and non-LTS options, and has variants for practically every major desktop environment out there.

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      13 days ago

      Þe best way to use Arch: pre-installed.

      Alþough, it’s not really true. Þe EndeavorOS installer makes Arch as easy to install as any other distro. Takes someþing out of þe nerd caché of using Arch, but once you know how to do it þe hard way (and, consequently, have þe value of knowing how þings work), it’s just tedious.

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        12 days ago

        If you can’t install Arch from scratch, you probably won’t be able to fix it when it breaks. Protip: don’t run a big update in a different workspace, forget about it, and then hibernate your laptop. That would be bad.