• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
            13·
            4 months ago

            That’s why I switched to Arch. Every stack overflow article to fix little problems with sound or screen tearing or whatever was a 1 line fix for arch or 4 to 6 lines for Ubuntu.

              • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
                32·
                4 months ago

                I think Arch is more stable nowadays, but I definitely needed to switch from Arch to Fedora back in 2014 after NetworkManager kept breaking my wifi. I wanted a bleeding-edge, customizable distro that’s still batteries-included and stable.

              • newproph@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                4 months ago

                I work in a stem center as a computer science tutor and it has happened to myself as well as a tutee and a fellow tutor. We all moved because keeping up with a rolling release gets tiring when you have projects with deadlines. They call it the bleeding edge because it has a tendency to cut you.

                I still love arch and there’s parts of it I miss. Fedora just has a tendency to break less often.

                • Darorad@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  Maybe it’s just ubuntu being bad, but I’ve had way fewer issues on arch after switching to it. I had like 4 issues where my pc just wouldn’t boot in the 3 years I was running Ubuntu, and I’ve had I think 1 in 4 years on arch.

                  Granted I’ve gotten more comfortable with linux in that time and have gotten better at fixing problems.

        • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          I mean that’s true for a lot of things, even if it took effort to learn how to do something it can make doing certain other things easier. Like learning to use the command line is certainly more effort than not doing it, but it also makes so many things so much easier once you can. Or learning to ride a bicycle takes effort, but once you know it’s way easier than walking to the store.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
      121·
      4 months ago

      I’ve been daily driving it for 3 years and it’s been no more or less stable than Ubuntu or Debian. Though i use a pretty minimal WM…

      • WillBalls@lemmy.world
        11·
        4 months ago

        Arch is incredibly stable… As long as you know what you’re doing. The majority of people who would move from windows to Linux expecting a similar experience won’t find that in Arch, unless they’re willing to become enthusiasts.

        This is the OS version of “it works on my machine”

        • CCF_100@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Lemme enable the [core-testing] repo! What could possibly go wrong? /s

          But yeah, honestly, I agree with this, arch is incredibly stable as long as you know what you’re doing.

      • Evrala@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        I ran Gentoo in high school. I think I spent more time tinkering on it than I ever did getting anything done, but damn was it fast. I ripped support out for everything except for my hardware.

  • mashbooq@infosec.pub
    38·
    4 months ago

    I don’t think anyone on the left is claiming that Arch has the same level of complication as Windows

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    351·
    4 months ago

    Every operating system sucks. It’s just that they differ in what aspects they suck in.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    11·
    4 months ago

    I’m so glad my laptop has on board Intel graphics next to the nVidia stuff. Ignoring nVidia has made my life so much easier.

    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 months ago

      A desktop environment. It includes most of the software you directly interact with once you boot up your computer (session manager, window manager, task bar, etc…) Some of the user friendly DEs used in Linux include GNOME (default for Ubuntu), Cinnamon (default for Mint), KDE, Xfce…

      If you have no DE at all, you just have a shell and you can interact with your system only through command lines.

      But in Linux, there’s a middle ground where it’s also possible to have only some of the software that make up a DE while keeping your system somewhat minimal. For example, you can login through the shell (and not use a session manager) but then run “startx” if you use X11 or a window compositor like “sway” if you use Wayland and still have a graphic session.

  • Gakomi@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    I did encountered that DE gone after update issue before thought after I switch to Arch and install everything from scratch I never encountered that issue again. Then again I know what each package was at that point so whenever I did updates I knew if it would fuck anything and exclude packages that would cause conflict.