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  • arch-based distros are more noob-friendly

    I’ll take some of whatever you are smoking. And I am typing this on an Arch Linux system.
    Sure, I love that I have a high degree of control; but, if I were planning to ask a new user to install Linux, I would not be handing them Arch. The Install Page may look nice; but, it’s a minefield of “oh go chose something” and you come back three hours later having read way too much detail about bootloaders.

    Arch is fantastic for choice, but the KISS principal is not available via pacman. It may be available in AUR. So, go learn what AUR is, spend way too long picking an AUR package manager only to learn it’s not available their either and you need to build it from source.

    Joking aside, I do need to try the SteamOS install. That might actually be a noob-friendly Arch distro.