They say debian is free and has its promise, but Arch has like 2-4 maintainers?

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    5 hours ago

    If you are interested in maintaining your OS as an ongoing and constant project, go with Arch. You will learn a lot about Linux, and about system administration in general. You will also have entire days where you are unable to do anything productive with your computer because the last update broke userspace again and you can either spend a lot of time troubleshooting your specific problem, or spend a lot of time reinstalling and reconfiguring your system.

    If your computer is more than just a hobby platform and you need to use it regularly for any kind of productivity, go with Debian. Set it and forget it.

    Either way, off-system file backups are recommended.

    • esc@piefed.social
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      4 hours ago

      Unless you intentionally doing something wrong or have close to zero experience with linux there might some of the problems you’ve mentioned, also you can expect similar on debian if you are having them on arch.

      Anyway, I would recommend something other to OP because both of these distributions require some non-zero experience with linux. (Also OP itself feels like trolling)