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What do y'all recommend as an arch based distro? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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(I'm not rawdogging it. I do not know enough about linux to install one of the rawest forms of it.)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I was always under the impression that most Arch-derived distro were not really user friendly.

Installing Arch from scratch is user unfriendly. Arch via a bundled distro (Endeavour, Garuda etc) is no different to install than the majority of Linux distros (ie pretty straight forward).

Usage wise the "user friendliness" once installed will more come down to what desktop environment (DE) you choose than the underlying distro. The only "heightened degree of difficulty" attached to Arch is that it is rolling release so the flow of updates is constant and you are expected to be aware of the implications of what you are updating (which in practise for me comes down to being subbed to the arch-annouce email list) and practising good backup hygiene so you can rollback if needed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I was indeed refering to the rolling release nature of Arch-style distros.

Having every update be a potential system breaker is not in any way user friendly, nor is it a user friendly experience to have to audit updates.

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