• Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I’ve been using Arch since I decided to go full-time Linux a year ago, and it’s really not that much work compared to when I tested out Fedora. I run pacman -Syu when I remember to, about twice a week. I update the occasional packages on the AUR once a week. I’ve never had a single broken dependency. Never had to fix graphics drivers (AMD on Wayland, so I can’t say the same about NVIDIA). I don’t even look at the wiki for 99% of the packages I’ve installed. This is definitely made by someone who hasn’t used an Arch-based distro for more than a day.

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I’ve been running CachyOS for a couple years, had a similar experience. There was one time in all of that where something actually broke, and I had to look up how to use my snapshots that I set up a year before and forgot about. That’s been it. Was running Mint before that, not too different (aside from newer versions of apps in the repository, which is why I switched).

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I started with Omarchy last March, because I was affraid Arch was too much, but it sounded so nice. So I started with Omarchy,because it was easy to start with. Now I’ve seen that it is not actually that scary, I might switch to Arch and not use the dhh distro. I might reuse some config files though.

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Jesus fuckin’ Christ… FWIW Arch is my daily driver and all I had to do to use it was install programs I wanted (I’m familiar with the terminal so I prefer yay commands to a GUI, plus I like to consciously know what changes on my machine, and GUIs often come with recommendation advertising)

    And things that I didn’t do on Windows but is unique to my use case was:

    • switch DE to one that can better support my specific desire of replicating Wallpaper Engine with Hidamari;
    • Install openrazer-driver for (again) my specific desire of controlling my existing Razer hw with Polychromatic;
    • Fiddle with xone and xpad-noone so my Xbox controllers work via their respective dongles;
    • occasionally write .desktop files for the programs I wanted that only came as an .appimage
    • shop around for my preferred libre Office suite

    My experience with Ubuntu and Debian have been exactly the same