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Linux is that feeling of your computer not becoming worse every year. Windows and mac users dont know what that is.
✨I don't get Advertisements built into my Computer✨
I'm like actually excited for updates to my operating system. That hasn't been true for Android or Windows in years. The last I remember being excited for an update was iOS on my iPod Touch, but from what I hear, people aren't even really that hyped for iOS updates any more.
Honesty mine gets better, the more I learn about my system the more I can optimize it to my needs
Mine gets worse, this is a me problem though. Writing automated scripts that I forget about or give non descript names to 🤤
You should try a normal distro like Mint or Zorin.
Arch and its forks aren't stable distros and they're best for experimentation rather than daily use.
I always end up coming back to arch specifically because it's easy to maintain and mostly just works. There's so little to break and when something breaks it's always easy to fix
Unbelievably ignorant take.
Arch and its forks are, in my view, the BEST options for a daily use desktop.
Please research the meaning of stability when applied to Linux before parroting stuff. Also, who mentioned Arch?
I think it depends a bit. Your first times with arch is definently experimental. You install it, you learn to configure things, and at some point you probably want to reinstall, because you have done something that makes the system be buggy. I reinstalled lots of times in the beginning.
But you learn proper Linux by using arch. At least if you actually do the install yourself by following the wiki. You will change a few things in a few config files and you will learn about Linux from that.
After that initial phase of reinstalling lots of times, you start to feel like you know the system intuitively. You know where the system looks for things, which files are read. Then you feel like you really like arch because now you dont break it anymore, and if you do, you can fix it.
Maybe its like that with other distros too. But for me, arch has been that journey. Im on a arch installation from december 2022 now appearently.