[BbzzbB]

Can't say I was drove away from Arch as I just tried Manjaro for a bit while figuring out what distro I wanted to stick to. But it seemed to me that it required more googling to do just about anything, and since a lot of Linux programs are made with Ubuntu in mind it seemed more straightforward to get going with a Debian based distro. Might have misread the situation since I had zero Linux experience, but I figured sticking with Debian was gonna minimize how much time I'd have to be setting and fixing my system. I think there was something in particular I was struggling to get working but my memory is hazy on that.

Probably gonna try again some time but for now I try to think as little as possible about my OS as long as I can code on it.

[hollerith]

Most of the info you need is on wiki.archlinux.org, which is so good that users of other distros prefer it to other sources of Linux info. (I'm a Fedora user, but refer to it so often that I have a "shortcut" in my search engine for "site:wiki.archlinux.org", and others on this site have praised it.)