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Should I give Arch a shot?
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I might be a distro hopper. Every distro just niggles me after a while, Silverblue wasn't flexible enough, didn't like GNOME 3.38 on Debian 11 after using 4x on Manjaro. Manjaro was buggy and had poor reputation. I didn't like Pop Shell, however, there was good support for Optimus laptops on Pop OS. Before Debian 12 I gave Ubuntu another go and it kept crashing. Main problem with Debian 12 is Firefox ESR which doesn't work with some sites I need and that the packages will be significantly out of date within a year.
I thought Arch because it is almost always up to date and seems to be widely recommended.
It's not like I haven't tried fixing the issue, I just don't know what to do outside of uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers or waiting for NVIDIA to provide a repo for Debian 12 for CUDA. As for the swap I would rather have a partition for it than have some combination of swapfiles and swap.
I had a go at installing Arch today in a VM using archinstall and set up BTRFS with Timeshift and grub-btrfs and it all seemed fairly straightforward.
Thanks for answering! Much appreciated!
Perhaps you've yet to find the one 😜. Your criticism to the different distros is fair though.
Yup, it's by far the most popular rolling release distro. Though, I'd argue that openSUSE Tumleweed -while not as popular- is definitely worth checking out as well. They're, however, quite different from one another. Arch offers a blank canvas, while openSUSE Tumbleweed is relatively opinionated; though it does offer excellent defaults. You would have to make up your own mind whichever 'style' of maintaining a distro suits you best.
Well, that sure does sound promising!
Thanks for taking the time to read my comments, really appreciate it! I've had a bit of a look into Tumbleweed and it sounds like it's similar to Fedora in how it handles packaging of proprietary software which I found pretty annoying, but I could be wrong.
It's true that Arch is leaner towards proprietary software if that's what you mean. An example of this is how the Nvidia drivers are just found within repos for Arch (thus enabled by default), while on both Fedora and openSUSE it's not found in the official repos. Both have made it easier over the years to somehow include options and whatnot within the installer to ease Nvidia users in, but the experience on Arch is definitely smoother.
Furthermore, Fedora is indeed (kinda) hardcore on FOSS, similarly to Debian. While Arch simply doesn't care in most cases. My relatively short endeavor to find out where openSUSE fits in seems to point towards openSUSE leaning closer to Debian and Fedora.
What's perhaps important to note is that in all cases there are third party repos that can easily be enabled to acquire proprietary software.