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At the moment I‘m using Arch. The installation is about 4 years old and I‘m totally pleased in terms of stability and performance. I had only issues with updates introducing wayland defaults interfering with my nvidia gfx card.
Honestly I‘m addicted to versions and really need to have the latest version of most things. E.g. gfx drivers, kernel, browsers, gnome and numerous utilities. For security reasons I try to minimize 3rd pary repos or things like AUR or PPA. Currently I have just 3 AUR packages installed.
In the beginning I tried to have this with ubuntu ending up in trusting dozends of alternative repos and PPAs. But in my opinion this puts you into a high risk because you cannot really trust all those repos that run software wth root privelagues. So i switched to rolling release/Arch which seems the best option for me. Do you think this is true?
What do you think about Antergos? It seems to be ARCH with an installer? Are there any disadvantages compared do a desktop linux setup done like ARCH traditional?
I plan to try out Open Suse thumbleweed. I already tried to Fedora but wasn‘t that pleased.
At work I deal a lot with SLES, RHEL, core os, tiny box and Ubuntu. I never really made experiences with Debian, but most of my raspies are running raspian because I care only about stability (and security). I never touched any other distros like Slackware so far.
Are there other distros that I should have a look at or you would recommend under the given boundarys?
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If you are fine with Arch, stick with Arch. You can also try upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Lubuntu finally switches from LXDE to LXQt there) which is going to have the newest possible software without a need to use many PPAs. The downside is that you'll have to upgrade it every six month, and this could be annoying if you are accustomed to a rolling-release distro.
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Pros:
- It's still Arch Linux, but is oriented toward the casual user
- Rolling release
- All the software you already know from Arch Linux (pacman, etc...), plus AUR
- Graphical installer and settings manager
- Graphical package manager
- Packages are more tested
- Supports latest NVIDIA drivers out of the box
- Great community
Cons:
- It's a rolling release, but "less rolling": you have to wait longer for upgrades (usually a week or two)
- Sometimes packages from AUR can't be installed because the system has old packages or conflicting one (it's not so common, but it happens)
So, basically, if you like Arch then Arch is what you want. Not really any other distro out there quite like it.
Honestly I dislike the concept of Manjaro and am not convinced it helps avoiding issues. In a best case they are able to automate things like manually deleting packages/folders which is sometimes necessary for Arch. Also I'm fine with the console.
Regarding Antergos which seems to be widely used:
Is it bloated or do I really start with a naked linux?
Does it make some choices I have to revert or can't influence, e.g. using networkmanager? Partitioning? Bootloader? ...?
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Manjaro does not really helps avoiding issues but I would suggest just try it! Easiest installation ever! Personally I had bad experience with Antergos and did not tried it again and probably never try it again since I am just using Arch and Manjaro, and on older computers Bunsenlabs (debian).
Bootloader I only trust Grub. I tried other bootloaders but they where not as easy and reliable.
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Don't get me wrong I used to love arch and also antergos when I didn't have the nerves to set up the complete system from scratch.
With antergos you will basically, have the same choices as with arch. Partitioning ca happen automatically or manually with chnci installer and regarding bootloader there is grub and I believe one alternative.
But the simplification of the install process also takes away some degree of control over what gets installed and what settings are configured, but most things can be changed afterwards.
But, if you really want to have complete control over your setup and don't mind compiling your packages from source, you could also give gentoo a try. I have been a former arch user and I must say I really love gentoo now. But everyone has his very own taste ?
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