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Debian-based arch like distro w/ automatic installer?
Nyap Mar 27, 2016
I love arch for how natural it feels to customize, but my installs of it are always unstable, and I can't be bothered to properly learn the pacman syntax. My title pretty much explains what I want. And no, I don't want any automatic installers for arch.
Nasra Mar 28, 2016
I think you can seek for Manjaro :
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
slaapliedje Mar 28, 2016
How 'bout Debian Testing?

mostly up to date packages, incredibly stable, and you basically choose what desktop you want during install (or if you install via a live CD, just download the one that you want for your desktop environment, but then I couldn't find a liveCD snapshot of Stretch, and had to upgrade after install.

But in my opinion Debian is still the best Distro (I always ended up going back to it)
manero666 Mar 30, 2016
antergos maybe?? ex-cinnarch

wooooops looks like i need to buy some glasses

i really want to give a try to debian testing too, so +1 for it
slaapliedje Mar 31, 2016
Well, he had asked for 'Debian based, Arch-like' which I assume meant something that uses .deb packages / apt-get, but was a rolling release, which if you set Debian to Testing, is one. The biggest problem with that is when Testing gets promoted to Stable, I would suggest not updating any packages for about two months while all the new crap that didn't get pushed from unstable to testing during the Freeze starts piling into it.

Either that or if you don't mind the occasional weirdness, just go full on Debian Unstable, it's generally more stable than Ubuntu is, and yet you get shiny new packages all the time. You can always install via the 'non-free' live disk and it'll install Debian Stable with all the nvidia/fglrx drivers you could want, and then you can carve out some stuff and upgrade to Testing / Unstable if you wish.

There are a few other distros that try the 'Debian, with latest desktop stuff' which was ubuntu's initial goal before they started doing their own thing. My experience with them has been long, and they usually end up screwing something up and becoming unstable, or end up going away.
khalismur Apr 1, 2016
Manjaro is a good call. Been using it for two years now and I am very satisfied. Very stable but still rolling release and quite bleeding edge software.
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