Don’t know about you, but I only recommend arch when someone says they want the most costumisable distro. No matter if they just mean the DE, if they are too dumb to realise the difference between a DE and a distro, they shouldn’t be on Linux anyway.
That’s not a matter of being dumb, just that they never had a reason to question the difference. The proper way to answer that if you think there might be confusion is to recommend arch and note that they might just care about the DE, in which case there are simpler options. Otherwise you’re just being an ass.
That’s a flaw with pacman and I’ll die on that hill. If it’s critical for someone to read the Arch News file before updates and pacman supports pre install hooks it should be recording what time you last installed updates and checking for updates to the news file since then and printing them or giving you the link to it and saying “THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE NEWS FILE, PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING.”
You’d like to think people just do this to assholes, but the number of innocent noobs that get recommended Arch is too damn high.
Valve over here puttin’ everybody on Arch
Don’t know about you, but I only recommend arch when someone says they want the most costumisable distro. No matter if they just mean the DE, if they are too dumb to realise the difference between a DE and a distro, they shouldn’t be on Linux anyway.
That’s not a matter of being dumb, just that they never had a reason to question the difference. The proper way to answer that if you think there might be confusion is to recommend arch and note that they might just care about the DE, in which case there are simpler options. Otherwise you’re just being an ass.
Recommending someone Arch who is a newbie is just dirty. At least recommended EndeavourOS or something.
EndeavourOS is even worse.
It will install, and work, but then after one update it will just Brick because the newbie didn’t read the Patch notes from the arch RSS feed.
That’s a flaw with pacman and I’ll die on that hill. If it’s critical for someone to read the Arch News file before updates and pacman supports pre install hooks it should be recording what time you last installed updates and checking for updates to the news file since then and printing them or giving you the link to it and saying “THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE NEWS FILE, PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING.”