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I feel called out (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 172 points 1 year ago

My wife uses Arch (actually). She calls it the internet, when she really means Facebook. She knows it isn't Apple but it gets a bit vague after that!

The last time I had to fire up the Mesh Central client to sort something out on her desktop from work was around three months ago. Every couple of weeks I ssh into it, update it and schedule a reboot for 03:00.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

If she only does basic web browsing, why not something more stable like Ubuntu or Debian?

[-] reinar@distress.digital 11 points 1 year ago

with arch it's relatively easy given enough experience to build for someone absolutely minimal desktop environment which will run you a browser and that's it and it will be rock solid even with rolling release updates because there's nothing to break.

every time I've tried "out of the box" desktop experience of ubuntu and likes it's been atrocious with a lot of moving parts.

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