(I’m not rawdogging it. I do not know enough about linux to install one of the rawest forms of it.)
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why do you want it to be arch based in particular? the entire point of an arch based distro is that you’re rawdogging it.
if you want something simple, use something Ubuntu/debian based. if you want something more complex, just try arch, it’s not that hard
EndeavourOS is great.
Endeavour OS. It’s solid.
I don’t recommend Manjaro. Its delayed release but no testing methodology has caused me grief a number of times. I still run a VM with it on it, but the only VM OS that has had more issues was windows
Edit it’s /its
Expect a bunch of people in comments who will deliberately recommend default Arch
Arch
Any of them that use the Arch repos directly are probably fine. Don’t use Manjaro.
Manjaro or Endeavour.
Just base arch
Garuda
Steamos
Artix + OpenRC
CachyOS
EndeavourOS and nothing else.
I suppose that pretty much covers the full gamut.
EDIT: Here’s the Linux distro family tree:
https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/releases
It lists 19 still-living Arch-based distros. Disregarding category-based recommendations and looking only at explicitly-named recommendations, as of this writing, you’ve explicitly been recommended 7 so far, or over a third of what exist. :-)
Any of them that use the Arch repos directly are probably fine. Don’t use Manjaro.
I will say that Arch does now have a guided installer, so you don’t need to do everything manually. Here’s the wiki page for it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
btw I use arch
How come you say Manjaro is not recommended? I went straight for Arch years ago so I don’t know what’s wrong with the derivatives.
Any other derivatives are fine AFAIK, just not Manjaro. There’s quite a bit out there about why you should avoid Manjaro. This source is older, but I’ve linked it before: https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
The link seems rather outdated.
It probably is. I think there are newer examples available, but I lack the motivation to find them for others. I feel it still represents the fundamental issues with Manjaro, if not the current specific ones.
It’s had a few security issues in the past and last I heard they introduce a lag between packages going into the arch repos and things being available in Manjaro - even for critical security updates.
Arch. No I’m not being a troll or suggesting something bad.
The reason I suggest Arch by itself is because of ArchInstall script. From there, it’s simple to use.
Learn to use pacman, and maybe an AUR Helper like Paru or Yay.
Arch Wiki is quite robust.
Agree. I went from Ubuntu to Arch many years ago and everything I read in the installation guide was new to me, yet I managed. “So can you!” If I did it…
Expect a bunch of people in comments who will deliberately recommend default Arch instead of answering your question.
I’ve been using EndeavourOS for a few years now, and haven’t had any problems with it.
None other than base Arch.
If you don’t know enough about Linux, that’s the point, installing Arch will teach you. Manually, not with archinstall.
EndeavourOS and nothing else. I personally use Cachy but it’s way too unstable for a beginner.
Been a long time since I used arch or it’s derivatives, in what way is cachyos less stable?
It broke many times on me, including a full ext4 file system breakage.
Just base arch
Read the description
No :3
I understand you have a point here but man the toxicity is crazy.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if they want arch, just the base one is the best one
I don’t really see why you’d install one of the other arch based ones tbh
People are afraid of the prospect of any slight inconvenience (even if there is none)
Then they should buy a Mac
Stupid reply.
There is massive spectrum of options between macOS and Arch Linux.
Why are you discouraging personal growth, trying out new things, overcoming challanges and fears?
Steamos.
Fight me.
CachyOS.
May be an unpopular opinion but I’m loving Garuda. I’m not a wizard and I needed something to just work with all the goodies. Garuda does it for me.
What do you like about Garuda?
Well when I was testing out distros last year, I wanted updated KDE, Wayland, BTRFS, Snapper, full LUKS (including the boot partition) and I wanted it all somewhat complete and configured with a GUI installer. I had spent way too much time mucking around in the CLI with Fedora trying to get all of that and I was over it. Garuda just delivered. I didn’t know much about Arch at that time but man, it just works so well. All the issues I had with Debian and Mint and Ubuntu and Fedora, they just aren’t a problem with Arch. And Garuda has it all configured out of the box. I’m sure there’s some bloat in it - stuff that’s included that I don’t need. But I’m just happy everything I want is in there and I don’t need to figure it out
Manjaro or Endeavour. I have and appreciate immensly both of them, and a slight preference for Manjaro due its release cycle.
Artix + OpenRC is my favorite. Lighting fast, low resources, and has everything I need.
