I had a little experience with Debian-based stuff on routers and whatnot going in, but when I finally migrated my main PC to linux I went with an Arch-based distro (cachyos) because the documentation on both projects is fantastic. I was able to get everything set up the way I wanted in a couple of days, with only one reinstall along the way lol.
Man, that Indian restaurant reference is just fucking spot on
That hole was made for me!
Unironically the average Linux experience
It’s tough for a distro to have both a strong newbie community and a strong old-timers community at the same time. Well done Arch community!
Arch is boring. It just works, has all the latest software, runs all the games, has the latest kernel…
My latest install is from 2019 I think…its exactly as fast as when I installed it, despite new versions of massive desktop environments like plasma and cosmic in this time, and hundred of new kernels and drivers.
Where is the excitement… Arch is like a rock in the sea. It doesnt change, it just is perfect the way it is.
:)
Since archinstall is a thing, arch really isn’t that hard to install or use, but these days I favor nixos for the reproducibility.
