Professional Documents
Culture Documents
ygolonhceT - /g/
Thread archived.
You cannot reply anymore.
Can someone tell me why so many Linux noob and Windows babby ducklings are trying to use Arch?
Arch is a DIY distro for people with more time than sense, definitely not a noob friendly distro.
818 KB PNG
It's not that complicated at all, I hadn't used Linux for almost a decade and it took me 30 minutes to install and configure.
It's a light, easily customisable distro and it has AUR, there's a lot to like about it.
>>51185491
The problem is that they then equate Linux with Arch when Arch is not a typical Linux distro.
Arch was my first distro I'm still lost but I love it.
>>51185657
I could definitely see this being a problem, I switched from windows to mint a few months ago and just started using arch about a week ago,
while I really like it, I'm glad I started with mint first...
>>51187590
and it's wrapper: yaourt.
Frankly if you aren't intelligent enough to follow simple instructions, well of course Arch isn't for you. Then again computers in general may
not be for you either.
if there's one really good thing about Arch, the wiki is probably the best general reference on Linux around
I use it all the time for shit like that even though I'm a lazyass who runs Xubuntu.
>>51187631
Fucking yauort. Can never remember that with my lysdexia.
>>51185444
Can someone tell me why a neckbeard sysadmin friend of my family told my normie computer illiterate sister to use ubuntu?
>>51187681
Fedora has a much better upgrade policy brah, it's called actual distro update that works.
The reason Mint upgrade policy is that is cause Ubuntu's distro upgrade breaks too often.
>>51187907
Because normies don't care about their privacy and can barely work around Windows, so when they like to use Linux, they use Ubuntu,
because it is the most hand-holding of all the Linux distros.
If you have no friends*, no life*, no job*, no family* you should go for Arch. If you have nothing to lose on learning as you go and risking
missing important shit ain't an issue it makes sense to go with Arch. It makes the weeks go by faster.
*Like me
>>51185444
Depending on the person it can be a good choice.
Some people just want to jump right in and figure everything out by being hopelessly over their head like me and Arch is a great choice for
that since the Arch wiki is top tier.
For most people who don't revel in disaster, its a pretty bad choice.
Post a Reply