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Also why does everyone seem to hate on Ubuntu?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I just think its good.

The way I see it, you can have an OS that breaks less often and is hard to fix, or an OS that breaks a little more often that is easy to fix. I choose the latter. 99/100 times, when something breaks with an update, it's on the front page of archlinux.org with a fix.

The problems I've faced with other distros or windows is the solution is often "reinstall, lol", which is like a 3 hour session of nails on a chalkboard for me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Slackware users, "Those Arch users are crazy."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Linux is supposed to be hard and for nerds. Arch is the hardest and most for nerds, and ubuntu is the least. At least that's what I've seen.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

No, Gentoo is the hardest.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Because it's awesome. Join us... join us... join us...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

How user friendly is the installation process? I've never tried, so I don't know. I'm curious now; just based on how people talk about it, I always perceived it as as distro that requires a lot of technical knowledge to use like Gentoo, which I unsuccessfully tried to install way back in 2010. I'm more knowledgeable and patient these days, so I may be able to work with arch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You can use archinstall and it is dummy simple. Just have another computer or phone around to look things up and go down the menu like a checklist. My admittedly limited arch experience has so far been "run archinstall, use pacman to install tools as I run into things I'd like to have". I have a Framework 16 with the built in GPU, I imagine some hardware complicates this process but just look stuff up it's all out there unless you're on some really wild hardware. Even without archinstall you can follow the arch wiki and you're basically replicating what the tool does but using the wiki as your checklist and needing to type more

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

To be fair, doesn’t framework work to ensure Linux driver compatibility? Must make things easier (plus they look dope)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

When I got fed up with windows 8.1 (and windows update bricked it), I first used ubuntu. How well or not it worked depended on the version. In version 19 it got some ugly white message boxes. I searched for how to change their color and found an angry dev saying no you cant change that. This was the final bullshit. Then I switched to arch, which lets me choose how my stuff looks and doesn't have the whole 3/4 versions are buggy thing. It works and ubuntu does not.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I don't know about Arch itself on its own but I use CachyOS that is built off it and everything just works for me.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I don't really understand either. Where are the Gentoo and LFS elitists? It seams like there should be more of those than arch elitests. Maybe it's just because more people use arch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

it was made by rocky horror picture show

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It's funny because I see the same cult behavior, but for Fedora. I've never understood the point of this distribution that has never worked well for me.

I'm on Manjaro by the way, because I love everything about Arch except the release style.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

The Manjaro release style is holding back everything (yes, also critical security updates) for two weeks. How is that better than getting the updates?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not a fan of getting updates every single day, sometimes breaking little things. I prefer less frequent homogeneous and tested releases.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

But you're still getting updates every day, just two weeks later than Arch. The "testing" is just two other branches somewhat closer to the Arch package releases.

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Switching_Branches

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Just update weekly. It's an easy fix.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Usually, the stable branch is updated every 2 weeks or so. Look at the past releases: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/stable-updates/12

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This must be why you also chose the Lemmy shit just works instance lol

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'm using Fedora, but I'm not going to say it's my favorite. I liked MX and OpenSUSE a lot. Just had a hard time with running them on a computer. Fedora just worked out the box.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

arch is slop for normies pretending to be chads, real chads use gentoo and openbsd

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

because they used to be special. "I run linux", matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, "I'm in", awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker...

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain't special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

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