• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    The vast majority of the use of arch at this point is complete out of the box… Arch hasn’t been a diy distro any more or less then fedora or Ubuntu for a few years at this point.

    Between endeavour cachy and steam os. Diy arch is basically not really a thing for gamers. It’s a meaningless concern.

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      6 hours ago

      With archinstall, I largely agree. However, you still need to make a lot of choices. Which kernel branch? Which filesystem? Enable swap? Which desktop environment? And other choices that I forget, it’s been a few uses since I used Arch.

      Gamers Nexus is very clear they want to avoid making decisions. They want to stick as close as possible to as possible, but that’s tricker since Arch doesn’t have defaults for those, unlike Bazzite. Bazzite uses the Fedora kernel (which follows the latest stable); btrfs; zswap; desktop environment they do provide a choice between KDE and Gnome, in which case is easier to choose KDE since it’s what Valve is pushing.