Arch is only for mid-level PCs.

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 hour ago

    OpenSUSE will almost certainly feel slower and heavier than Arch on any given hardware. Zypper is way way way slower than pacman, more stuff is installed out of the box, and at least personally I see a lot of slowdowns due to BTRFS doing various maintenance. There are a lot of great reasons to use OpenSUSE, I’ve been using Tumbleweed on my desktop for years, but this is not one of them.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    OpenSUSE Tumblweed is just rolling redhat with cleaner standards like Fedora.

    Saying OpenSUSE Leap is better than rolling releases Arch is a dumb comparison because you can apply that logic to any decent release based distro.

    Arch will always be first for bleeding edge which is its primary use case. It would make sense to compsre it to Tumbleweed which achieves the same thing without the artificial PITA “debloat” of Arch requiring you install basic GNU stuff manually but still shipping with a fat as hell systemd dependency.

    It has the downside of less 3rd party packsge support though. You’ll likely find more in Arch and AUR than RPMFusion or COPR, especially for new stuff.

    Leal and Fedora are cutting edge. Tumbleweed and Arch are bleeding edge.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 hours ago

    What’s your argument for that?

    I use nixos btw… Which isn’t better when hydra has been down for a whole week now

      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        30 minutes ago

        What the actual heck are you talking about lol. Arch is quite minimal out of the box. Of course it’s your system, you can install whatever you want

      • Ooops@feddit.org
        1·
        20 minutes ago

        (heavy?)

        And right there lies your misconception. Newer software is not heavier by definition. Quite the contrary it often gets more efficient because of constant optimisation and improvements.

        The concept of newer software using up ressouces like crazy is the scam used by corporate OS’ so you buy new hardware constantly.

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
        23·
        5 hours ago

        You can just not update for weeks or months if that’s your thing. If there’s a thing arch doesn’t do is force things.

      • RustyNova@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Ok this is indeed solved by nix.

        Not the bloat mind you. Nixos is the king of redundancy bloat (unless you use Btrfs and something like bees)

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Slowroll is an interesting idea, but not much talk about it (maybe because experimental) and when I tried Tumbleweed I hated patterns. It also seems like the update model could be better, like a combo of security updates and stability based on ABI compatibility checks (ideally avoid breakage even if it means an older package, mark issue type with applications and tell me when updating may actually fix).

    Nix too, but I’m not sure it’d do what I want easily. Plus, no dynamic linking is a double pain for me (on top of normal software, Godot+Nim-lang). Not sure about redundancy of app containers (which update on a diff time-frame) while having slow internet.

    Legacy nvidia driver that’s a pain now, too.