• lch361@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 days ago

    It’s very small on my disk. It doesn’t have systemd. It uses musl, which is considerably easier to configure than GLibc. It has a fast and easy to use package manager. It has both stable and rolling releases for packages. Easy to write your own packages and build them from source. Easy to contribute to upstream.

  • crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use Arch, btw, but I don’t consider it the best (yes I do.) I could easily transition to Fedora, for example (I would never do that,) and be completely happy (I would rather continually hit my head with the metal stapler gun on my desk.)

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    2·
    3 months ago

    Using Linux is not a dick measuring contest (and man I hate these threads asking “why is your distro the best?” - it feels like trolling and sowing division and grief to me. A bit like asking a mother “What is your favorite child?”.)

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Ah, so you think your distro’s not the best. (jk).

      As a recovering/relapsing distroholic, I feel like these threads are great for discovery. (And whimsical fun. Because you’re right, that it’s not a contest. So knowing this, can engage with the question playfully.)

  • bold_omi@lemmy.today
    2·
    5 months ago

    I do not consider Arch the best. Artix is better because is is systemd-free. I have not switched yet.

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    NixOS. My entire config is source-controlled and I can easily roll back to a previous boot image if something breaks like cough Nvidia drivers. I also use it for my home router and all self-hosted services.

      • dwt@feddit.orgDeutsch
        1·
        1 year ago

        Out of all the ways that I have tried in the past, to reproduce not just the initial state, but also the ongoing changes of a disto (ansible, saltstack, chef, bunch of Shell scripts) — nix is by far the shortest. With all of these technologies I would never have dreamed to do this for a single Maschine. But now it’s not only possible, but actually gasp enjoyable!

        Mind you, if that is not the problem you want to solve, maybe install just the nix package manager in addition to your distribution, and learn to enjoy it without having to run your whole distribution this way.

      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        It works well enough for now. Some things were surprisingly simpler than I expected them to be (e.g. gaming thanks to Heroic Launcher and Steam).

        Note for the Linux-curious potentially reading this: I had sufficient experience with Linux Mint and Ubuntu as well as test runs of Arch before committing to it. DO NOT SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. Try Mint first (or Bazzite, I hear that one is great for gaming but have yet to try it myself), and preferably using VirtualBox before committing to a switch.

        • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          It works well enough for now. Some things were surprisingly simpler than I expected them to be (e.g. gaming thanks to Heroic Launcher and Steam).

          I was thinking more with regards to the multiple recent AUR malware attacks. I hope you’re staying safe, staying on top of the situation, not letting Arch bite you.

          Note for the Linux-curious potentially reading this: I had sufficient experience with Linux Mint and Ubuntu as well as test runs of Arch before committing to it. DO NOT SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. Try Mint first (or Bazzite, I hear that one is great for gaming but have yet to try it myself), and preferably using VirtualBox before committing to a switch.

          Note for the linux-curious potentially reading this: You’re Linux curious, that means you have what it takes to try any distribution of Linux. Curiosity. YOU CAN SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. It’s rare, but it does happen. Some now famous linux youtubers did just that. It will take a bit more reading to be able to get up and running, but you’ll be running all the more fast and sure-footed from the education the experience gave you.

          ;)

          Oh heck, Arch isn’t even that hard and involved to install any more. Go for Gentoo. :) Come, windows refugees, all! Skip the Ubuntus, Mints, Suses, Fedoras, PopOSes, AntiXes, Zorins, elementaryOSes, LinuxLites, PCLinuxOSes, Soluses and whatever windows refugees flock to these days, and shoot for the moon! Heck, even try LFS! (Okay, don’t. I’ve gone too far now. LOL).

          • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            I make a backup of my project on an external hard drive twice-ish a week and pacman-Syu twice-ish a month. If anything serious happens, I’ll just reinstall and restore.

            I could keep an up-to-date install USB ready, tho - but I have enough other options at the moment.

            Thanks for the concern.

  • TomB19@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    I slightly regret switching one of my development machines from Manjaro to EndeavourOS. At the time, I needed to test an app I was writing with ffmpeg v8.0 and Manjaro was not going to have that for quite some time. I tried the AUR package but it didn’t work and I had to back it out.

    EndeavourOS is absolutely great. I literally am not aware of a single flaw in it. My regret, infinitesimal as it is, is based on being so close to upstream projects. I would far, far rather have a stabilized distro.

    My Manjaro machine, for example, has a perfect KDE right now. My EndeavourOS requires directory renaming 2 to 4 times to get it to stick. I know that’s not EndeavourOS. It’s KDE but I vastly prefer a distro with some quality control.

    Meanwhile, Manjaro turned into a dumpster fire so there’s no point going back. I do have one machine on Manjaro and it’s running fine, taking the extremely occasional update. I may go to Fedora LXQt spin but EndeavourOS is great, except for the Dolphin issue. They may have fixed it by now but I’m too scared to take any updates in case it gets worse.

  • UNY0N@linux.communityEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Bazzite just works, it runs every game I have with zero fuss, it’s easy to run Windows programs / emulators / local LLMs, AND it’s basically unbreakable.