β² 223 βΌ I'm looking for a free OS, should it be Debian or Arch Linux(community)? (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by CarlLandry357@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 116 comments fedilink hide all child comments They say debian is free and has its promise, but Arch has like 2-4 maintainers?
[β] Sexy-Animal-Fucker@thebrainbin.org 28 points 3 months ago (1 child) The fact that you're asking this suggests you might be new to linux so go Mint but if it has to be one of those two then Debian permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Australis13@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) Linux Mint Debian Edition. Best of both worlds. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago The lack of PPA support might bite you though. For newcomers I'd strongly recommend staying with the standard Mint (Cinnamon) version, any reason not to is highly technical and more of an issue for the maintainers. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 point 3 months ago* :3 I would have thought best of both worlds be more like: install Devuan, read everything on https://bedrocklinux.org/, run the script once knowing the implications of running it and are enthused for this nontrivial change of your system, and then just brl fetch arch. Or other way around if you prefer arch's installer. Or Debian/Devuan, Arch/Artix(/Obarun/Joborun/etc) if preferring init freedom. Edit: ... cos then you can do cool things like apt upgrade && pacman -Syu permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Australis13@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) Linux Mint Debian Edition. Best of both worlds. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago The lack of PPA support might bite you though. For newcomers I'd strongly recommend staying with the standard Mint (Cinnamon) version, any reason not to is highly technical and more of an issue for the maintainers. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 point 3 months ago* :3 I would have thought best of both worlds be more like: install Devuan, read everything on https://bedrocklinux.org/, run the script once knowing the implications of running it and are enthused for this nontrivial change of your system, and then just brl fetch arch. Or other way around if you prefer arch's installer. Or Debian/Devuan, Arch/Artix(/Obarun/Joborun/etc) if preferring init freedom. Edit: ... cos then you can do cool things like apt upgrade && pacman -Syu permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago The lack of PPA support might bite you though. For newcomers I'd strongly recommend staying with the standard Mint (Cinnamon) version, any reason not to is highly technical and more of an issue for the maintainers. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 point 3 months ago* :3 I would have thought best of both worlds be more like: install Devuan, read everything on https://bedrocklinux.org/, run the script once knowing the implications of running it and are enthused for this nontrivial change of your system, and then just brl fetch arch. Or other way around if you prefer arch's installer. Or Debian/Devuan, Arch/Artix(/Obarun/Joborun/etc) if preferring init freedom. Edit: ... cos then you can do cool things like apt upgrade && pacman -Syu permalink fedilink source parent
