I’m using Arch Linux for 2 years. I subscribed to Arch’s mailing lists and I check my mails daily. I use flatpak instead of AUR.

I installed my system with archinstall and I update whenever I want. I didn’t have any issues yet and it’s the only distro that just works for me.

What about your experience? Any “breakage”?

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    I have had issues with every distro I ever used. I really want to stop distro hopping, but I am never quite happy. I think Arch is great, but I’m too lazy to set it up myself. I just installed Garuda the other day, the lite KDE Plasma version the dub “for advanced users only”. Pretty nice so far gotta be honest.

    • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Ever tried OpenSuse? I heard it’s quite good, it’s rolling release but it’s apparently fairly stable and it has Yaast, a tool which gives basically every advanced setting you could ever need a GUI kinda similar to control panel on windows

      • blackbrook@mander.xyz
        6·
        1 year ago

        Tumbleweed is great! It’s close to bleeding edge with an automated testing system preventing most problems from ever getting to you. And if an update does break your system, if you installed withtheir btrfs default, you can just boot to a pre-update snapshot right from the grub menu, and roll back to it.

      • boo one@lemmy.one
        31·
        1 year ago

        Suse tumbleweed is kinda bad though. The docs are always outdated with broken links. nothing works out of the box. Yaast is kind of clunky, and looks ancient, looks wise. Updates are slow and I got tired real fast resolving broken dependncies.

        Their plasma+firefox patches nice though.

      • blackbrook@mander.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        Tumbleweed is great! It’s close to bleeding edge with an automated testing system preventing many problems from ever getting to you. And if an update does break your system, if you installed work their btrfs default, you can just boot to a pre-update snapshot right from the grub menu, and roll back to it.

    • AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can use the archinstall script and get it setup in however long it takes to install everything.

      I recently went through the process of manually setting up hyprland. Only after finding out it was added to archinstall…