Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 21 hours agoIf you want to learn about Linux on a deeper level Mint is probably not the best choice for it, since it aims at providing a Distros for non tech literate users. For this goal I would recommend Arch Linux, since the installation an maintaining teaches you quite a bit. Main Problem is, that Arch is sometimes quite unstable. If you like to suffer to learn you can also try out Gentoo or NixOS or crea[e your own Linux with Linux from scratch.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
I would try arch one day except i have a job lol
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 17 hours ago
It is Not that Bad. The installation isnt that hard, if you use a tutorial. In terms of maintaining its mostly a “hit or miss” scenario. I heard from people who had no issues at all and from people who ran into issues all of the time. I can say, that I did not have that much problems. In about 2 years of relative frequent use of arch I only bricked my system once, leading to my is being unfixable and me having to reinstall the whole OS. I ran into smaller problems of which, except for one, where I found a manual temporary workaround and couldn’t bother to fix it completely, all could be fixed. I would not recommend to use it on a machine, where you can’t risk eventually having to fix it for one or two days.