You should go see Gentoo or something if ArchLinux causes you problems.
It’s my go-to rescue cum doing-backups cum new-install distribution because it’s clean (meaning low cruft), minimalist, and most importantly, rolling. I run it as a console OS. I adore it.
Have I run it as my Workstation OS? Yes. Would I again? No. It was too fragile then.
Pacman is too strange to use with the options reduced to letters and having to include the double dash every time you remember the long form. Gimme dnf, Aptitude or flatpak.
My daily driver is Fedora. Is my heart in my mouth every six months when 4,000 packages all need reinstalling? Yes.
Have I tried Debian Testing&Sid as semi-rolling? Yes, fantastic, until they did something weird with systemd instead of just doing the conf locations as intended like everyone else. And the weak-dependencies lists were unfunny. Did I mention I loved aptitude?!
Have I tried, source distros (exherbo, Gentoo, funtoo)? Yes, never got any work done. I was always compiling something for that 1% corner-case performance gain.
Don’t think I’ll try anything else save maybe openSUSE or that NixOS. The first seriously, the second for fun - NixOS smells a tiny bit like Gentoo or ArchLinux to me (sorry, not sorry).
Going to do the Talos Linux shuffle sometime soon but that’s different isn’t it.
As you might have guessed, I don’t really do derivative distros like Ubuntu. Function over form for me.
You should go see Gentoo or something if ArchLinux causes you problems.
It’s my go-to rescue cum doing-backups cum new-install distribution because it’s clean (meaning low cruft), minimalist, and most importantly, rolling. I run it as a console OS. I adore it.
Have I run it as my Workstation OS? Yes. Would I again? No. It was too fragile then.
Pacman is too strange to use with the options reduced to letters and having to include the double dash every time you remember the long form. Gimme dnf, Aptitude or flatpak.
My daily driver is Fedora. Is my heart in my mouth every six months when 4,000 packages all need reinstalling? Yes.
Have I tried Debian Testing&Sid as semi-rolling? Yes, fantastic, until they did something weird with systemd instead of just doing the conf locations as intended like everyone else. And the weak-dependencies lists were unfunny. Did I mention I loved aptitude?!
Have I tried, source distros (exherbo, Gentoo, funtoo)? Yes, never got any work done. I was always compiling something for that 1% corner-case performance gain.
Don’t think I’ll try anything else save maybe openSUSE or that NixOS. The first seriously, the second for fun - NixOS smells a tiny bit like Gentoo or ArchLinux to me (sorry, not sorry).
Going to do the Talos Linux shuffle sometime soon but that’s different isn’t it.
As you might have guessed, I don’t really do derivative distros like Ubuntu. Function over form for me.