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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I've had so little trouble with arch compared to other things, so I would definitely recommend it to experienced linux users, just definitely not unexperienced users. The aur is amazing and rolling release means you don't have to deal with the horrors of major updates breaking packages. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is also a great candidate though for people who don't want to set as many things up themself, I'm currently using both arch and tumbleweed on different computers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yup! Same here. Once I've got everything set up, it has been running smoothly and without any issues for more than 5 years in my case. It's literally the most reliable system I've ever set up, but I understand that the entry hurdle is pretty high.