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Arch Linux Tux wrote:I think it's best to start out with an easy distribution like MINT or Kubuntu.
But yeah for someone wanting to learn linux Arch Linux is the easiest way (on a hard journey)!This doesn't make any sense. Is it hard or not? What is actually preferable and why?
It does make sense as it is formulated as a paradox on purpose. Just read it twice.
On Arch Linux the extensive documentation is preferable as you can learn a lot about linux from it.
Further its attribute to be highly configurable enables for a long learning journey naturally!
So by using Arch Linux you learn about Linux more than on beginner distributions like Kubuntu...
They say the hard way was easier.
Last edited by Arch Linux Tux (2025-02-07 19:41:26)
I find every text with bold and italic emphasis easier to read
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Arch is only "hard" if you haven't installed a linux distro before and aren't familiar with the options available at installation.
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I'd find distros like debian or derivatives much harder, because what if I want to install some small software within the package manager but that software isn't provided in the official repos? In arch, it's super easy to create a package! So it's super easy to install everything the way it's supposed to be.
After many many years with arch this is the biggest reason to stick with arch. I'd love to give other distros a try, e.g. because they are more secure or because they are based on musl instead of glibc, but then I always think: What if I want a piece of software they don't provide?
hi im from the gentoo community, im starting to toy with the idea of arch since funtoo buckled and folded into macaronios. how to get a piece of software is you compile it! you manually satisfy dependencies and compile the package. LFS and BLFS have manual compilation instructions to get you familiar with it. when you're good enough with manual compiling you can then run more difficult distributions like slackware. debian is a cake walk, you just install the dev packages of the dependencies of the target package you're compiling. if you don't add prefix=/usr it will place binaries in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin so you can keep locally compiled packages separate from distro official stuff.
gentoo has the ability to tune every package for all sub-architecture optimizations to squeeze all performance out of the chip which can be significant in compute cluster settings.
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