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[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago

for me it's snaps and the release model that suck. Also, apparently, arch-based distros are more noob-friendly, thanks to ArchWiki

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

arch-based distros are more noob-friendly

I'll take some of whatever you are smoking. And I am typing this on an Arch Linux system.
Sure, I love that I have a high degree of control; but, if I were planning to ask a new user to install Linux, I would not be handing them Arch. The Install Page may look nice; but, it's a minefield of "oh go chose something" and you come back three hours later having read way too much detail about bootloaders.

Arch is fantastic for choice, but the KISS principal is not available via pacman. It may be available in AUR. So, go learn what AUR is, spend way too long picking an AUR package manager only to learn it's not available their either and you need to build it from source.

Joking aside, I do need to try the SteamOS install. That might actually be a noob-friendly Arch distro.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

That's why i said "arch-based" not "arch". I don't know about manjaro actually, lots of people on the internet complained how broken it is (or rather was broken, idk), so i decided not to try it. But i've tried and am currently running EndeavourOS. The installation process is as easy as the one of Ubuntu, while OS remains stable, despite me using AURs and manually compiled packages. AURs are far more friendly compared to PPAs. Not to mention the fact that i wasn't always able to find the package i needed among PPAs, and manual compilation often did not work due to Ubuntu's update model.

I don't quite understand, what do you mean by "KISS is not available via pacman", so please, elaborate. To me pacman is as simple to use as apt.

Also, didn't know SteamOS is already available for public, good to know. Gonna try it some day.

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don’t quite understand, what do you mean by “KISS is not available via pacman”

I was making a joke about Arch not being simple and pacman not having packages one would expect, often having to turn to AUR to find such packages. Seems the joke failed to land and now we're in "explaining a joke is similar to dissecting a frog" territory.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

guess, you sould've kept your joke a bit simpler, stupider even :D

[-] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

I use snaps on multiple non-Ubuntu systems because they solve problems for me in a cleaner way than anything else has done so far.

I also find arch-based distros to often be quite obnoxious to manage, but that's just me.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

what are the usecases for snaps and flatpaks in the home desktop environment anyway? What are their benefits? Isolation?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

They let you run a rock solid stable base OS with updated user applications.
Flatpak makes Debian actually great and removes its biggest drawback.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

sounds like an unnecessary overcomplication tbh

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

In both cases, you get isolation of the applications, yes. In the case of snaps, you can also isolate your system services from each other, limiting the effectiveness of attack chaining since an issue in cups (for example) won't leave an attacker able to (for example) access your GPU.

They also decouple the application releases from your distro if you don't use a rolling release distribution.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

it's either you're too paranoid about the attacks, or i'm too careless

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