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That’s why I wrote it’s another unpopular opinion. Somehow the internet claims Arch is hard when to me it’s been the easiest distro I’ve ever used
- No GUI bs, unless you install it yourself, that you never know what it does under the hood. The config file you find in
man
is the config file that governs the thing - easy - You deleted a little bit too much? You just reinstall package, like in Slackware - easy
- You need something from outside the packages? Arch is very well prepared for you building things from source and install it in a sane way, instead of pure
make install
, like Gentoo - easy
And PKGBUILD is easy to understand, RPM and DEB package creation is black magic - You don’t have a lot of crap in the system that you are not sure you need. Since it comes rather plain, you either install something you want, or it gets installed as dependency
But, of course, YMMV
And I’ve tried “easier” distros in the past. Sooner or later it always felt like I need proprietary set of keys to unscrew the lid to flip one small cable
I think it comes from diminishing experience windows provides
An example, since a few windows versions I can’t get to install an old HP printer because they haven’t written the drivers for it. On Linux it works fine.
You don’t want ads and your os to be sending your passwords who knows where? AFAIK ATM no long time support version of windows provides that.
My gaming buddy is rather well versed in computer stuff, he’s the person that writes and hosts our discord bots. He can’t make sound drivers to work as he wants. Sometimes things go loud without reason, sometimes mute doesn’t work, sometimes sounds play on an output that according to Windows is muted… Crazy stuff