The literal ArchWiki says you may not want to use Arch if you are happy with your current OS.
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I don't even notice Debian, which is exactly how an operating system should work.
And yet...
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Here's the thing. When I talk to friends interested in Linux, it's always Debian or Fedora that I suggest. I think they draw a good line for what the average user wants and needs and they're stable. In fact, I used Fedora for a long time, and all my homelab stuff runs Debian. It wasn't until computers themselves became a hobby that I switched to Arch. And I think that's likely the cutoff. If you're a computer user, stable distros are great. If you're more a hobbiest... Well, the Arch wiki can own your free time.
Debian is where the jaded users end up when they lack the will to flash another usb stick.
"I'm good, fuck it."
NixOS has entered the chat
Normal distro -> arch -> gentoo -> nixOS -> QubesOS -> Debian pipeline.
"Man I wish I could do more with my new computer" -- Fedora
"Yeah I just want to breathe some new life into this old laptop and have it last me until the end of time" -- Debian
I was a fedora boy until I met endeavoros and kde.
Now I'm a straight up hoe.
But are you a well loved and taken care of hoe? Cause you deserve to be.
Taking care of your hoes is an essential regular maintenance task for a healthy garden.
Unpopular opinion: install community distros, not corporate ones. That way you can support the developers for their hardwork. Redhat doesn't need our money, they already make enough of it. I use CachyOS, btw.
I just switched to CachyOS and I’m really enjoying it so far. My journey so far has been Mint > Bazzite > Kubuntu > back to Mint > CachyOS and for the first time I don’t have any real complaints. There’s a voice inside my head telling me to jump to just standard Arch though. Not really sure why. Have you tried standard Arch? If so, how does it compare to CachyOS? I probably won’t end up switching, I haven’t had any issues yet and I’m a computer problem magnet and certified idiot, so I’ll probably stick to what works, but something draws me to pure Arch.
Use NixOS
And I thought all Arch users already switched to Nix OS (BTW)
Nah, I looked at it and it doesn't interest me. I like arch because, contrary to popular belief, it is quite stable (as in non crashing, not package versions) if you only install exactly what you need. I had way more stability issues on the more standard distros since they had so much extra stuff. Debian for servers every day though.
Nix looks interesting in theory, but is a lot of work and too opinionated for me. Far from an expert though and have nothing against those that like it or any other distro.
I want to switch to Nix... the idea of Nix is compelling. In practice every time I try and test it out I remember that I'm an idiot with a keyboard and I should stop.
Tried it all and ended up with Mint again. Forever the best distro.
Hell yes! Mint 4 life!
I am convinced that I will try Arch or similar some day in the future simply because of SteamOS switching over to being based off of it. But for now, I develop software for embedded Linux systems all day at work. When I get home it's either family time inside or it's playing "engineer turned farmer" in my back yard. Literally digging in the dirt and building stuff out of wood. Feels good man.
First Linux experience beyond retro station. I love bazzite. Super fucking easy!
If everything is the way you like it, you are winning. Keep on winning.
The funny thing for me is I swapped to fedora after my last attempt to use arch failed spectacularly.
I've found I'm at a point where I just want my device to work and work well
Unpopular opinion: I love Ubuntu. No, I don't use snaps at all. I have an Nvidia GPU and it's literally the only OS working out of the box. Yes I tried Debian, I'm too busy to fiddle with drivers. No, I can't get rid of the GPU, I depend on it for critical workflows. I love the minimalism of Gnome. Never liked KDE/Cinnamon honestly, they're too busy for my tastes. For 15 years I've tried other distros and I'm always back on Ubuntu. I'll ride the purple penguin to my grave.
Downvotes only please.
You can have your cake and eat it too! Just install Arch in a VM to play around with without jeopardizing the stability of your main machine. Once you feel comfortable, you can make the switch. Or not. Having choices is great.
After trying 10+ distributions over the years the urge to try something new is not that strong, I settled on Debian based distributions.
But if I should try something new I would look into FreeBSD to get some Unix experience, or else NixOS also sounds interesting.
And here I am on popos 22.4, while my friend tries to make me install arch with hyprland lol
Hint: :q!
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