• @[email protected]
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    248 months ago

    You know when you have an issue with your Linux so you air it on a public forum and are overrun with useless comments that you should switch to Arch because it’s so much better and you’re stupid if you don’t?

    Yeah.

    • aard
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      98 months ago

      Is Arch really that popular nowadays?

      I mainly know it from the colleague who switched to it back in 2006, and then we made fun of him over the next year for all the stuff that was broken on his system, and worked on ours. He only was let off because a new hire went for Gentoo, and had stuff even more broken.

      • @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        Arch is great these days, and in my own experience rarely breaks just due to updates if you set it up correctly.

        But unless you’re willing to configure a lot of stuff to your own liking, it’s probably best to use some other, more mainstream distro.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        I do like Arch. I say the biggest problem I have with it is how basic it is out the box. I like that, but I sometimes find it challenging, especially toward the beginning, to find the package I’m missing to get a certain functionality.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          Isn’t that both a feature and a potential difficulty? I’ve never used it, but I would think that’s part of the appeal for some people/use cases.

    • prole
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      8 months ago

      I’m relatively new to Linux, but my experience has been the exact opposite. People seen super fucking helpful on all of the forums I’ve come to from Google after searching my problem.

      Like REALLY helpful and nice.

      I think the Arch thing is literally just a meme too (I use it, btw)