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Decision of Next Os (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I've decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That's because of users, not OS.. right? I love to deal with problems but I don't want to waste my time. Is Arch really problemful OS? Should I use it? I know what to do with setup/ usage, the hardness of Arch is not problem for me but I am just concerned about the mindset "Arch always gets broken".

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Arch never broke for me.

Unless you seek trouble and do stuff without knowing what you are doing (like blindly copy pasting commands from internet into your terminal), it generally just works.

It's not as good as those distros where all packages come preconfigured for you to work nicely together, so if you want to build a custom system (like, choose your DE/WM/panels/widgets etc), you have to configure all of that to intergate nicely. But you could always just install KDE and everything is pretty stable there, same as in any other KDE based distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I know the danger about playing with wires too much hahsha. I made some mistake when I was noob. I am just asking about Arch has problem with itself or not. But if you say its just user's problem, I am okay with it. Thanks for your answer.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is a "KDE based distro"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A distro that ships KDE in not a vanilla form and with some pre-installed custom configuration/fixes by default I think. Stuff like Kubuntu, Arco XL, Manjaro KDE etc

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah ok. So basically any bigger distro.

I haven't actually found one that doesn't have kde.

[–] LeFantome 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That is not what he said. First, he means that the distro is KDE-forward and using that desktop environment by default. Second, he said that KDE was “non-vanilla”. Third, he suggested that the distro has extended KDE with its own utilities ( a more focussed version of the second point ).

To illustrate the difference, Ubuntu is a “bigger distro” but not a KDE one whereas Kubuntu is a KDE distro.

Red Hat does not package KDE ( which I assume means Rocky and Alma do not either ). You have to use a third-party repository to get it. Chimera Linux does not have KDE. I am sure there are others although it is not something I have paid attention to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ok I understood it as there is a live disk with kde as an option. Or you can install kde on installation. Like debian, fedora or nixos