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Do you use Arch btw? Best Arch distro? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Debian (and formerly Ubuntu) for many years.

But I've been wanting to tell people that I use Arch.

I've been considering the following distros:

Arch
Cachy
Manjaro
Any others?

I'm leaning towards Arch or Cachy. This is for a mediocre laptop that I'm planning to use as a media center: Kodi, Retroarch, Steam, etc. Should I even be using Arch for this? Maybe Debian is more stable...

Sorry if this has been asked before. Thanks for any tips!

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[–] Maerman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm on Cachy myself, but I have put in a lot of time with vanilla Arch. Cachy has an easier installation process, although the archinstall script is also quite simple to use. Cachy takes better advantage of your specific hardware, so it's good for squeezing a bit more performance out of your machine. Arch is more bare-bones, the idea being that you get to and have to customize it yourself, from near the ground up. It's a matter of use case and temperament, really. Both are good, and the differences aren't huge in the end.