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    PS. This is not a critique to Debian-based distros. And i'm not suggesting you to skip Ubintu for Arch either. Arch is a bit advanced and not too easy to new users, so that won't do for some people...

    ... just install Linux Mint instead.

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    [–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 50 minutes ago

    I know this is just a meme but has Ubuntu fallen that bad?

    Ubuntu did welcomed me to the Linux fam 16 years ago or so, so I am grateful but I have not used it for at least 12 years by now

    [–] Shayeta@feddit.org 21 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    I use Arch with KDE and a bunch of always open applications. At rest it uses 8GB. I paid for the whole 64GB kit, and I'm going to use the whole 64GB.

    [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 56 minutes ago

    I’ve got NixOS with KDE and I run several containerized services through podman. System idles at 5.8gb.

    I was going to stack 4 to 6 Arch VMs inside each other.

    Now I'm wondering if I can go further...

    [–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

    The typical path: Mint -> Arch -> Fedora.

    [–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Why go past Arch? What's the use case/flavor?

    [–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    As someone who uses arch, its just stability. Arch is great for a hobby, if you want to do work, use fedora. Its so much simpler. That being said, I love arch because of the tinkering, and that lack of tinkering is why I switched off fedora.

    Ah, got it. Thanks. :)

    [–] Janx@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago

    People losing their voice from telling everyone they use Arch?

    [–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 28 minutes ago

    Fresh breath -> curved spine -> m'lady

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 minutes ago

    Yeah that's me, but I started on Ubuntu. Arch is awesome, but Fedora does most of the same things and it's so much easier to maintain an installation of

    [–] hakase@lemmy.zip 3 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

    3 years later and I'm still on Mint.

    [–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 1 points 23 minutes ago

    Same. No reason to switch as I have no desire to tinker

    [–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

    Tiny core Linux: i can run on 64 MB of ram.

    [–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 points 48 minutes ago

    Arch is love. Arch is life.

    [–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

    I installed 26.04 the other day and it seems like a pretty decent release, I may keep it around for a bit.

    [–] RedMari@reddthat.com 5 points 1 hour ago
    [–] zewm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)
    [–] zewm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    The word critic is a noun, the word critique is the verb.

    You would have critiques of Debian, not critic.

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
    [–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Damn you edited the original comment and now my reply is out of context. RIP

    [–] Janx@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago
    [–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    You literally just used "critique" as a noun.

    [–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 34 minutes ago (2 children)

    A critic critiques and can have a critique. A critic can't critics nor can have a critic. A critic can criticize and can have a criticism.

    [–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 28 minutes ago

    Ergo the statement "critique is a verb" isn't the whole truth.

    [–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

    Critical thinking suggests that it is critical that everyone understands this.