• czech@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I had been off Linux for a few years but recently returned to arch. I didnt feel like mucking around with everything from scratch so I tried the included install script. Next thing I knew I was in a full xfce environment with everything working out of the box.

    If arch can drop you in a full DE of your choosing, from an install script, what is the point of these other options? Genuinely wondering what’s going on with them and if I should check them out.

    • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
      01·
      11 months ago

      These other arch distros usually come with pre-compiled kernels with special options for different platforms, repos with different package versions to offer some level of stability, custom scripts to manage services and updating, and their own config files for various things. It’s pretty much what you do with regular arch but someone else is doing most of it for you.

    • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I think only endeavour and Manjaro still hold any use of the arch based distros.

      Endeavour generally has nice tools and is pretty much what you’d do with the install script so it just saves a few steps.

      Manjaro because it’s a gateway into learning arch for better or worse.

      But other than those two I don’t see the point of any other arch distros other than to be made for the sake of it.

      (I forgot steam os 3, but that’s a different topic)