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I've been using Ubuntu for as long as I've been a Linux user, and with the way things are going I'm fixing to switch. I'm only really familiar with Debian-based distros but I've heard the packages Debian comes with are often outdated. Arch seems pretty cool but I've heard it's quite unstable. I've heard good things about Fedora.

I've also heard people say that systemd is the antichrist. Is it really that bad?

I've been using Ubuntu for as long as I've been a Linux user, and with the way things are going I'm fixing to switch. I'm only really familiar with Debian-based distros but I've heard the packages Debian comes with are often outdated. Arch seems pretty cool but I've heard it's quite unstable. I've heard good things about Fedora. I've also heard people say that systemd is the antichrist. Is it really that bad?

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Arch is a well thought on Linux. Most flavors focus on compatibility and quality over pushing feature after feature. Arch in general is a hands on Linux, but the repository and packages have been repaired completely before release and kernels are all most completed before changing to next kernel number. So modules and kernels are much nicer in arch Linux

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Arch is systemd

Artix is a systemd free fork of Arch.

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If I thought I needed to mention artix i would have.

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I'm an Arch user as well. I started in 1997 on Slackware and stuck with it for a long, long time but eventually the outdated packages got to be too much. I went to Gentoo after that, but compiling everything became brutal on some of my systems - I have a small fan less PC that runs what my bf calls my NAS, as well as Pi-hole, a print server, and a half dozen other odds and ends I can't live without.

Arch had a bit of a learning curve but I can always get it to do what I want and it is extremely well documented. I have no idea what year I stared using it but it's been a good long while now (at least ten years thinking back on moving out here and I was running it then) and I have no complaints.

I think the only devices in my home not running it would be my router (running OpenWRT) and my Steam Deck (although it might be an Arch derivative). My gaming PC is using VIFO to directly pass hardware to a Windows VM, although I'm guessing in just a couple years I won't need to do that. I almost don't have to now, but my VR stuff is currently less headache in the VM.

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It also gives you total freedom, regarding package management. With PaMac, you can install repos, AUR, SNAPs, and flatpak, and have them all updated with one frontend.