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Moving to a new OS, should I choose Arch or Debian?
| NixOS for the reasons stated in >>334603
https://dangeru.us/tech/thread/334582
It's by far the purest OS out there.
| Gentoo you weeb
| Gentoo for sure
| Why Gentoo over Debian tho
| Well, Gentoo is the development distribution for excellence, but I think you have to install most of your software from source. This means everything gets installed in the most optimized way possible, and that everything takes longer to update.
I heard is not really the most stable thing, though.
I'm actually considering using Gentoo too, but I'm not really convinced so far.
--OP
| Between arch and debian i would choose debian for its simplicity. It's easy to use, stable, what more you need?
| void or devuan
| Depends on whether you can afford to spend time mucking around with it or not. Debian is p easy to setup and go within 20 minutes, Arch not so much. And if you can't afford the time to muck it, its probably better to go with the more stable Debian. That being said I run testing and have never had an issue with it. Ymmv
| >>336708
>>336710
>>336734
Yeah guys Gentoo is so great: https://gentoo.org/news/2018/06/28/Github-gentoo-org-hacked.html
| Damn, the aftermath of Windows buying GitHub is occurring!
| Debian is pretty ok. I'd recommend Arch though. The thing about vanilla Arch vs. Manjaro (etc) is you get to go through the process of knowing exactly what's installed on your box. base package has fuck all. base-devel "oh there the tools I know" and you build from there. Arch Wiki does a wonderful job of explaining how to setup X, a window manager, etc. And you get to actually pick each of those components. Great for learning and will increase your comfort level when shit breaks
##Dev:Lain##
| Install Bedrock Linux and try them all at the same time!
| Whats Bedrock Linux?
| Debian.
The whys of it, I have written before in some other threads. To sum it up in a few words: it works well, is extremely stable, has a HUGE repository to select software from, the userbase and community is vast and most distros that stem from it contribute upstream their improvements. It is a world of its own.
As of Gentoo, if you really have nothing to do and time is worthless for you, Gentoo is the best thing for you.
| >>336696
That's a really hard question to be honest. If I would start from scratch, I would use Arch. I started with Kubuntu back then, and if there wasn't KDE-Neon, which combines KDE as a rolling-release with Ubuntu (which is debianoid) I would have definitely switched to Arch (kubuntu sucks). On servers I use Ubuntu (server) and centos.
If you say you made bad experience with KDE-desktop on arch, give "KDE-neon" a try:
https://neon.kde.org/
| Arch or gentoo or some sourcebased distro.. debian is not so interesting.. it's 'stable' bur really old..
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| As I got some free time, I want to install a new operative system.
I like how Debian is more oriented to free software, and probably will be more stable than Arch.
I have only used Arch-based distros and they often break (this might be due to KDE Plasma, though).
I wonder if a pure Arch installation will be more stable than Antergos or Manjaro.
I also want to start developing some software soon, and maybe one of these two will be better for that.