I feel like I’d need to check the wiki less if pacman had flags that made more sense lol. Plus so many variations of commands the wiki warns “this will break your shit”.
I really like Arch, I’m using CachyOS, it’s been great. But I do miss apt lol. Maybe that’s just because I was used to it though. Update and upgrade being two totally different things is also extremely counterintuitive.
AeroGlen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t use Arch but I have noticed a growing number of forums where people seem to talk about a lot of problems. I have used Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu etc. But Arch stands out as the distro that seems to have the most helpless users. Or is it the most broken distro?
andkit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I use arch on a couple of machines and for a rolling release I find it surprisingly hassle free. So with a scientifically relevant sample size of one ;) - I declare that it’s the people that are the problem.
That is with regular updates though.
I also have a gentoo box that is fine if you let it update every week or two, but tends to need more love and attention if you turn it on again after half a year. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the same for arch. Users who only update twice a year aren’t really the target audience for rolling release.
It probably also depends on your hardware and what your usecases are; as always using the right tool for the job helps
Nico_198X@europe.pub 3 days ago
Two of us at least! Arch has been the most hassle free of any distro I’ve used.
Solved my distro hopping 13 yrs ago