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    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    People keep saying it's "simple", then whip 3 terminal commands out of their pocket nobody without extensive knowledge would understand

    People do the same thing for all Linux distributions though. You'll see people telling you to run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade like you'll see people telling you to run pacman -Syu.

    Not arguing that Arch is easy, just that this specifically doesn't feel like a counter argument.

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 days ago

    Well yes, although with Arch Linux it's a necessity. Most distros using apt do come with graphical software centers as well. Unfortunately many people in the community indeed do ignore those tools instead of pointing to them. Hell, some even still recommend editing the god damn fstab file despite it being perfectly manageable with both Gnome and KDE tools, which are present in most popular distros and way safer unless you really know what you're doing. To have those on Arch you're forced to use CLI tools first.

    It was more of a rant about the community than an argument against Arch.