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Choosing Next OS (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by bitahcold@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I've decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That's because of users, not OS.. right? I love to deal with problems but I don't want to waste my time. Is Arch really problemful OS? Should I use it? I know what to do with setup/ usage, the hardness of Arch is not problem for me but I am just concerned about the mindset "Arch always gets broken".

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[–] dave@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used arch for ~5 years but recently switched to Nixos. It's been such a long time since I dared to 'play around' with my setup to try things out without worrying about how I'm going to reverse them. Also really enjoying the added benefit of keeping all my fixes and hacks versioned in a git repo.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I've used a few distros part-time over the years (ubuntu, fedora, mint, arch, pop), and can say that assuming you don't need the latest version of all programs, NixOS is my favourite. It's so easy to test things out and then undo them, it's great!