• tourist@lemmy.world
    20·
    11 months ago

    You may have just sold me on Arch.

    I have never been able to hold down an Ubuntu install for very long without getting that dreaded you have held broken packages scold.

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, I love Arch for the same reasons. Try installing it in a VM and using it a bit, and you’ll see that it’s quite an easy OS to use now.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      You can follow the wiki guide and really have a solid systems that is just yours. That will take some time and can be a little frustrating.

      Or use the installer script they have included for a year or more now and get to a working desktop in 20-30 minutes.

      But if you feel the need to trim down the scripted version, you can make it just a strong as the step-by-step install in a few hours.

      I have used the same step-by-step based on the wiki install since 2016, on my daily driver laptop