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    [–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    arch-based distros are more noob-friendly

    I'll take some of whatever you are smoking. And I am typing this on an Arch Linux system.
    Sure, I love that I have a high degree of control; but, if I were planning to ask a new user to install Linux, I would not be handing them Arch. The Install Page may look nice; but, it's a minefield of "oh go chose something" and you come back three hours later having read way too much detail about bootloaders.

    Arch is fantastic for choice, but the KISS principal is not available via pacman. It may be available in AUR. So, go learn what AUR is, spend way too long picking an AUR package manager only to learn it's not available their either and you need to build it from source.

    Joking aside, I do need to try the SteamOS install. That might actually be a noob-friendly Arch distro.

    [–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    That's why i said "arch-based" not "arch". I don't know about manjaro actually, lots of people on the internet complained how broken it is (or rather was broken, idk), so i decided not to try it. But i've tried and am currently running EndeavourOS. The installation process is as easy as the one of Ubuntu, while OS remains stable, despite me using AURs and manually compiled packages. AURs are far more friendly compared to PPAs. Not to mention the fact that i wasn't always able to find the package i needed among PPAs, and manual compilation often did not work due to Ubuntu's update model.

    I don't quite understand, what do you mean by "KISS is not available via pacman", so please, elaborate. To me pacman is as simple to use as apt.

    Also, didn't know SteamOS is already available for public, good to know. Gonna try it some day.

    [–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I don’t quite understand, what do you mean by “KISS is not available via pacman”

    I was making a joke about Arch not being simple and pacman not having packages one would expect, often having to turn to AUR to find such packages. Seems the joke failed to land and now we're in "explaining a joke is similar to dissecting a frog" territory.

    [–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    guess, you sould've kept your joke a bit simpler, stupider even :D