Obviously it's arch, since it's so minimal, and since it is so simple and lightweight. I really love Arch. I feel like I really learned a lot about GNU/Linux when installing arch, I am sure I can be a sysadmin now lol, of course it has it's flaws. But overall it is the best distro ever made, you really can't find a better distro ever.
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goatism ago
Arch is fucking annoying. Used it for a year, and all the tweaking and stuff just annoys me. Also, I don't need software updates 3 seconds after the coder commits them! I want to get shit done, set everything up the way I want it to be and be done with it! Fedora for me, used it for the past 2 years on my desktop and laptop! Stable, software did not break once and super user friendly! I got enough programming shit to do on my own, no need to tweak the OS every 2 days!
Zawaken ago
I think you're kinda missing the point, Arch is an ok distro, and this was a shitty shitpost. I'd admit I miss the AUR when on fedora. I miss having under 1k packages, there's a lot I miss. but that's not really the point here. I just shat this shitty shitpost out because I could. But yeah, Fedora has it's usecases, Arch has a different usecase (I used it for a good while).
But yeah, Fedora is more stable than arch, user friendly? well as long as you're not using novideo. But, the "tweak the OS every 2 days" thing is a meme, I didn't have to tweak my OS, maybe once per month or so. But if you don't have a special snowflake set up like me, you should be good on arch. But I agree, Arch is fucking annoying
goatism ago
Well, i don't fuck with video production... I set up VLC with codecs when i installed it, and never had any issues! Yeah, you don't really need to set the OS up every 2 days :-D! I was also using i3 and a highly tweaked setup, that may have been the issue. The AUR is actually pretty awesome, I miss that! There should be a stable rolling release of Arch, and I would be coming back real quick! Kinda hate the LTS system, those distro updates rarely work!
Zawaken ago
If you want a somewhat stable rolling release I think Opensuse Tumbleweed would be something for you. And regarding the highly tweaked setup, I have cwm + compton + rofi + urxvt (CWM is a wm from OpenBSD) running on fedora right now, I've been running that same set up on Arch, Void and Fedora, loving every single bit of my setup. I am also gonna add XMobar to the mix pretty soon :-)
goatism ago
Yeah, i installed OpenSUSE once but couldn't get VLC and codes to work so I downloaded Fedora :-). After Arch I was pretty impatient, doesn't work in 5 minutes, you are gone! All those TWM are awesome, stuck with i3 because back then there were the most tutorials for it out there! I miss urxvt, I think terminus was the font I used. Looked fucking insane! I also used HLWM for a while, also a pretty awesome TWM! If you work in the terminal a lot and code in Vim and stuff this is the perfect setup! Damn I miss that. Not using the mouse at all. Fuck, I already see myself hopping around! Damn you! Also, the Arch wiki is one of the best resources out there!
Zawaken ago
Yeah the arch wiki is fucking great, and yeah TWM's are great (I'm a heathen with a Floating/Stacking WM) but goddamn, I used windows not too long ago, and I found myself pressing the keybinds I use in my wm, I was so goddamn frustrated that it didn't work. Anyway, I dig using my mouse as little as possible, it is just so much easier to use the keyboard for everything, I can't live without my precious keybinds. I don't really code at all, but I do know I have a pretty great set up if I ever start coding shit :D
And no problem ;)
goatism ago
You probably know about this, but just in case. There are addons for most mainstream browsers, that let you use Vim keyboard controls in your browser. When I browse, I never touch the mouse. Fucking great, and much much faster!