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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (13 children)

What's wrong with btrfs?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

People don't know how CoW FSes work 🤷.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago

This is a rather old form and in its early days btrfs was not very stable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I don’t think I’d call it anything wrong, but the subvolumes definitely do make it different for installation purposes so that following ext4 instructions for bootloader configs or kernel arguments could put you on the wrong path

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I've been trying to decide what distro I want to go with for my desktop (Microsoft recently pushed copilot onto my windows 10). While I like the idea of Arch (fast, lightweight) and the fact that it'd be fully compatible with whatever I get on my steam deck, stuff like this makes me think a Debian-based distro would be better.

(That and the fact that most Linux stuff is designed for Debian and I don't have enough experience to try and rebuild Debian stuff for Arch)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I’ve found the opposite of what you said, where on Debian based distros I commonly had to go to a project’s git repo and follow readme instructions to build when it wasn’t in an apt repository. Meanwhile on arch, the only thing you have to install manually is yay and then afterwards everything is in the AUR. Not saying that makes arch more user friendly than Debian (obviously), but that one aspect I do actually find easier on arch at least if you’re willing to use an AUR helper.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you need to validate the installed state of files on the machine. You'll reconsider Debian like many security people do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I doubt I'll ever have to do that since I don't really work in software development (I'm guessing that's only relevant in software dev?), but thanks for the heads up.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The aur usually has what I need, only have had to manually build once... Before I found the aur package. Endeavoros is a good easy way to get into arch if you are worried about the manual configuration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Alright, cool. Why not Manjaro? I did a quick Google search and saw people saying Manjaro is bloated in comparison to EndevorOS, are there other reasons as well?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, they like forgot to reupload a new cert 3 times.

And they hold packages back. EndeavourOS uses Arch's repos directly, whereas Manjaro has it's own repos. EndeavourOS is just Arch with a GUI installer and some handy prepicked choices, like a DE.