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Do you use Arch btw? Best Arch distro? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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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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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 13 hours ago

So you basically hold them to a higher standard than google, apple, Microsoft, cisco, Amazon. Because theyve all had outages cause by certs expiring.

Its a common issue and its not a huge deal. The package manager cert was a big outage but their wiki website cert is the most minor shit ever.