• pelya@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.

    People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.

    Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it’s users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.

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      21 hours ago

      because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.

      Half thought take that’s potentially a hot take, don’t cancel me! If pacman had better flag names this wouldn’t be as big of a problem.

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      Arch being hard to install and configure hasn’t really been true since archinstall matured enough for regular use.

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      “cryptic command like knowledge” which is mostly acquirable from 2 or 3 minutes reading the wiki.

      Idk, I would probably just say it’s more flexible, but less discoverable.