Owen Nelson

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Owen Nelson @onelson6/5/2023, 6:11 AM

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ngl 90% of the average Computer Toucher™'s problems with desktop Linux come from trying to use Arch/NixOS/whatever as a daily driver

literally just use a normal distribution and 80% of your problems stop existing. anything not derived from Debian, Red Hat, or OpenSUSE is just a waste of your time.

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@caranatar6/5/2023, 5:59 AM

Every time I've tried to use a "user friendly" Linux distro in the past 20 years, something has been broken in a way that was completely irreparable because the user friendly tools were capable of like 10% of what editing a config file can do. Or on something like Ubuntu, the problems also come from debian using decade old packages.

Owen Nelson @onelson6/5/2023, 6:11 AM

Damned if you do or don't

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Gourd @gourdcaptain6/5/2023, 12:14 PM

I mean, even outside of that, I'm on Arch for all the stuff in the repos even not counting AUR that Ubuntu doesn't ship and I'd have to juggle fifteen PPAs and Snaps of dubious quality to get working. Flatpak's significantly better and I even use it on rare occasions on Arch, but even then there's still weird edge cases with those apps and like, themes.

Still absolutely need to know who you're talking to before recommending Arch or not, and I've got a multimedia PC in my living room for my TV I want to run Debian on so I can just run updates on it every so often and otherwise not bother compared to the Arch treadmill.

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