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As a capable but lazy user, how much would switching to Arch frustrate me? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know my way around a command line. I work in IT, but when it comes to my personal fun time more often than not I'm quite lazy. I use windows a lot because just plugging in anything or installing any game and it just working is great.

But support for windows 10 is ending and I should probably switch sonner rather than later, so I'm wondering if Arch would be a good pick for me? For reference, I mostly game and do Godot stuff in my free time.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't recommend it in your case. Mind you, Arch is easy enough to install with the archinstall script or say using EndeavourOS, but the issues come afterwards. For starters, you'll need to occasionally deal with .pacsave/.pacnew files when you do an update, keep up with Arch news and be aware of breaking changes which may require some non-trivial manual intervention, like in this post for example: https://lemmy.nz/post/7648427

So if you're after something that "just works", then Arch isn't for you. Since you're into gaming and you're lazy, Bazzite would be an excellent choice as its an immutable OS with atomic updates (updates either work or don't, there's no middle/broken state). But if you're after a more traditional distro (ie, non-immutable), Nobara or Pop!_OS also work well for gaming.