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by 0x457 907 days ago
It's because plenty of arch users just copy and paste things from arch wiki and stackoverflow without thinking.
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glitchcrab 907 days ago
Agreed, Arch is not a good My First Linux for sure. I would never suggest it to someone without a decent bit of experience under their belt.
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0x457 904 days ago
I used to run arch on my desktop for a while because it was the closest to thing to FreeBSD. Didn't use Linux on the desktop before (well, went through a few distros within a month).

Never had any issues with updating or using it, but it's because I have set up everything myself and never touched AUR. Still nuked it favor on FreeBSD and then NixOS eventually tho.

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doublepg23 906 days ago
On the other hand, I learned a lot as a newbie.

Make mistakes, get messy, etc.

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glitchcrab 904 days ago
This is true, I guess it's very dependent on the use you have for the machine. In my case i migrated from Ubuntu to arch on my work machine when I had a week off - obviously I needed it to work otherwise I would be in some trouble the following Monday.
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