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Is there anybody whose had experience with both?

I'm trying to decide if I want to go back to Manjaro or get into Endeavour.

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[–] smoof@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's really not that hard to follow the wiki to install Arch. I feel like there's a lot of maintaining to do when using Arch, so you might as well get used to the terminal. It wasn't really an issue when I was using it daily, but has become a chore now that I boot up my laptop once or twice a month.

Funnily enough, I'm always on my Steam Deck now and that is based on Arch, too.

[–] Rega@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to remember that most people aren't power users. A lot of people find if difficult to even install Windows. Vanilla Arch isn't for everybody.

[–] smoof@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, in that case, I can't recommend Arch to those users. Nothing wrong with Ubuntu for beginners and there's so much documentation.

[–] slampisko@czech-lemmy.eu 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it? I thought SteamOS was based on Debian

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since SteamOS 3 it's based on Arch

[–] slampisko@czech-lemmy.eu 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

@slampisko Also with the next big update of SteamOS to 3.5 they will even integrate Nix package system officially! That means you can install packages in a persistent manner (not just Flatpaks).

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

There’s a years old Debian-based version available for download, but the version that ships on Steam Deck is significantly different and based on Arch.