Been daily driving Arch for 6 months now, but considering moving back to Debian. Not really taking full advantage of the Arch pros

While a bleeding-edge kernel is great, I don’t particularly need it. pacman is nice, but apt gets the job done too. Has anyone else switched from Arch to @debian? If so, did you miss anything from Arch that Debian couldn’t replicate?

  • pipes@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 months ago

    Debian stable + flatpaks is a great combo. Sometimes I still wish some packages were more recent (not fun when yt-dlp starts breaking), sometimes I’ve been let down by their oldness in Debian Testing, and even Unstable (wanted to test Plasma 6 for instance). Overall I’m happier that there’s way more stuff in the official debian repos I would have to use AUR for otherwise.

    • alkaliv2@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      This is a fine strategy if you have very old or relatively well established hardware. But if your hardware choices are bleeding edge you’ll either have to run custom kernels in Debian or necessary repos to get them fully functioning. Not always a problem for most Linux users but I remember trying to use Debian when the 7900 XTX came out and it was not a good time to get it fully supported on Stable. Unstable and Testing Debian? Absolutely. But at that point you are basically recommending the Debian version of Arch.