As a developer and sysadmin, I welcome you.
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Honestly I'm gonna go against what people usually say and say that Arch is better to start with than Ubuntu, as long as you're not afraid of command line or editing txt files. Whether it's Arch or Ubuntu, as a noob you're going to be doing a lot of wiki reading and copying and pasting of commands.
Personally though, a big difference between the two I found is that after a couple of years of copying and pasting commands in Ubuntu, I still didn't really understand anything about how Linux works behind the scenes. Whereas Arch had me feeling like I too could be a sysadmin, if I felt like it, within a week.
And maybe things are different these days with Ubuntu, it's been a few years, but I find that Arch has a way more enthusiastic and helpful user base. And the Arch wiki is practically a bible. Whereas searching for problems and solutions in Ubuntu can feel a bit like searching for problems and solutions in Windows, where you'll probably get copy pasted generic solutions or someone telling you to restart your PC.
I feel like with the Arch distributions like EndeavourOS and CachyOS it's a lot easier nowadays.
Arch as a first distro is an interesting choice.
But likely fr better than my first distro, Slackware.
I had known about the Church of the Subgenius and then heard that there was a Linux distro based on that...
At the time, the wikis were not really up to the task...
These days I run Mint on my writing laptop, and unfortunately am back to Windows on my gaming rig.
But might swap back to Gaurda for gaming...
I agree with you for a hobby OS. Like if somebody wants to learn and knows generally how to back up what they don't want to lose, Arch is invaluable! I'm currently enjoying EndeavourOS on my gaming laptop for how newb-friendly the community is.
If someone just wants a working machine that allows them to dabble if they're feeling it, Mint is good for that. Not everyone's gotta be a sysadmin right?
I personally feel like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a great balance though.
It works, yet it rolls, and you can still mess around if you want. Although it's sometimes frustrating when it does things differently than Arch or Ubuntu and the advice is scant... But I guess that's it's own learning experience!
I occasionally make a project out of learning things like compiling software, but it doesn't demand too much maintenance when I just need to get stuff done.
Absolutly me
But i think the starting OS depends on the person.
I never would give Arch to my grandmother or something but most of my siblings would be better off with arch than mint. But even then there could be poeple that would be happier with another distro that is not a rolling release
Thank God they didn't try to install open BSD
I've been playing with Bazzite
Bazzite is so good, especially on the Steam Deck. I did run with Arch for awhile, but ended up switching back to Bazzite when I realized that all I ended up doing was recreating Bazzite in Arch. KDE 6 with all the gaming essentials pre-configured is just so nice.
As someone who currently uses Windows 10 w/ NVIDIA hardware and a destain for W11, I'm definitely liking Bazzite.
Apparently though DirectX games don't perform as well as well compared to Windows though. At least heard from an ROG Ally Bazzite vs windows comparison I saw on YouTube
Welcome.
Thank you!
You need to end your sentences with "I use Arch btw", read the Arch wiki for more info
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Everyone's welcome to the party pal
I started messing with Linux, then became a developer. Whatever draws your interest!
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After over a decade of using it exclusively at home and partially at work I still googled how to add users to a group last week.
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The first step to being really good at something is being willing to be really bad at something while you practice.
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I'm old (not much, though) but back in my day it happened the same thing with people like me. Only that instead Arch+Hyprland it was Compiz Fusion+Beryl because the cube and the flames was the tits.
Also I just happen to be a graphic designer so hopefully this post of yours helps into letting die that idea that Linux is only for devs and sysadmins.
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