and the ppa mess to add the software not in the official.
Arch was and is
rock solid for me,
updates and upgrades went extremely smooth,
software packages were more up to date,
aur had everything I needed
Archwiki is a great resource of information
I learned a few things on my journey with arch - and with today’s installer it’s a no-brainer to get arch running with encrypted btrfs layout.
I am happy to have had “the courage” to try arch, after I tried suse, fedora, kubuntu, mint, debian, opensuse and some short-lived experiments with smaller distro like mandriva and names I cannot remember.
(k)Ubuntu had - when I used it -
Arch was and is
I learned a few things on my journey with arch - and with today’s installer it’s a no-brainer to get arch running with encrypted btrfs layout.
I am happy to have had “the courage” to try arch, after I tried suse, fedora, kubuntu, mint, debian, opensuse and some short-lived experiments with smaller distro like mandriva and names I cannot remember.