I can't decide between Debian or Arch for desktop usage(work but no server).
I can't decide between Debian or Arch for desktop usage(work but no server)
Jacob Perez
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Ryder Parker
Sauce?
Austin Sanchez
Debian.
Ayden Clark
I hear arch is for cool kids, but I am using a window. :(
Hudson Hill
fpwp
debian is automatically discarded because of old as fuck packages and debian specific changes to packages instead of just fucking patching.
Arch is ok I guess but I haven't used it, I'm on gentoo. The best of both debian and arch would be fedora, it has a net installer and you can choose the desktop at installation time like debian.
But I much rather prefer a text installation from chroot. I think it's possible in fedora unsquashing the fs of the live iso
Julian Turner
debian if you're a serious professional and your time is important, arch if you're an enthusiast and want to mess around with stuff as soon as possible
also consider fedora if you're a serious professional
but if you're asking this, you're probably not a serious professional so probably you should install arch
Chase Ramirez
Yeah yeah i just want the sauce on that semen demon.
Jonathan Myers
Fedora. It's WAY more up-to-date than Debian, and Arch is meme-tier.
Kevin Roberts
Gentoo stable. Newer packages than Debian, more stable than Arch. Also extremely customizable.
Hudson Howard
Arch just works nowadays, often times better than Debian in my experience. You get packages pretty much straight from the developers and not patched up ancient ones like in Debian, and AUR has everything you could imagine and more. For a work distro Fedora is probably your best bet though.
Brayden King
gentoo is a timewaster distro for people with nothing going on in their lives
Julian Ward
Mint or Xubuntu, don't waste your time
Joshua Flores
Jow Forumsentoo is the only right choice
Camden Ward
Do you do something with your computer and value your time?
If yes, Debian.
Sebastian Bailey
Julian Davis
this
>inb4 red hat shill
>inb4 debian clone
debian and arch are actually copying fedora. just use the real thing
Parker James
May your god or spiritual beliefs bless you user
Nathaniel King
I switched from fedora around 2007 or 2008 to arch and honestly I miss it, fedora is a really well made distro. every time my arch distro has some retarded problem I feel like I should switch back but I'm addicted to the AUR.
Henry Smith
>has some retarded problem
What kind of problem?
Christopher Lewis
Debian.
Arch will snap like that bra when under heavy load.
Angel Ward
right now I'm dealing with fcitx not switching between full width and half width punctuation even though it claims to have done so. but in the past I've had all kinds of problems, especially in the old days when arch kept changing what they wanted to do and if you weren't carefully reading the forums your install would get fucked up.
Joshua Stewart
just learn to build from git, or make a gentoo chroot in something like /usr/local/gentoo, no need to switch distros
not him but arch often will overwrite the /etc/ modifications and turn unbootable with upgrades or just break xorg configuration.
It's retarded and took a while to make signed packages like fedora or literally any other distro
Colton Ross
>debian and arch are actually copying fedora. just use the real thing
Debian is 10 years older than Fedora newfag.
Isaiah Edwards
Sounds more like Windows.
Jordan Myers
OP here, thanks for the input. I'll use Debian then, have a good day.
Joshua Watson
>Debian has packages 10 years older than Fedora*
ftfy, retard.
They would have kept sysVinit like Slackware and gentoo but they decided to follow red hat, they just kept fucking up the implementation as well as arch.
literally nobody on fedora hates systemd since it just works, arch and debian are amateurs.
Bentley Mitchell
the $25,000 high performance computers at my work all use fedora for what that's worth
Austin Price
imagine being this new
Henry Wilson
Why don't you license RHEL?
Liam Ortiz
upgrading once every year is not a big deal.
most people go 28>30>32 etc
Brandon James
I think it's from senran kagura
Ethan Watson
...
Jason Perry
>debian has old software
Then why don't you use Debian Testing? What's the deal with complaining about old software when you use "stable" version?
John King
Arch if you're not a tranny
Samuel Adams
Isn't that a matter of just merging or checking/configuring the .pacnew files?
Daniel Powell
Because you can use Fedora and get a rock solid stable OS, with up-to-date software.
Mason Sanchez
It shits up the bed too much on upgrading from releases. For all the shilling Fedora gets here, Debian and arch rarely break in my experience compared to Fedora.
William King
>fedora
don't fall for it.
If you don't want to use outdated shit (debian) our bloated (ubuntu) and don't have skill or patience to build something (Arch, Gentoo) than go with openSUSE or Manjaro
Parker Thompson
Arch is really good, but from time to time some update will fuck things up. Not a problem if you use Timeshift or some other program to restore
David Evans
just cron rsync to keep daily, weekly and monthly backups.
Jaxon Fisher
2bh the biggest arch fuckups aren't from regular upgrades, they're usually from when you wait too long before upgrading
anybody who has turned on a 2-3 year old arch system knows exactly what I mean
Logan Sullivan