>0 eliwatson @ 2025/02/13 21:07
I just installed arch and i3 on my 2010 macbook pro. And.... I like it? didnt think I would becuase I am a multi year debian user. I like the do it yourself nature.
>1 anonymous @ 2025/02/14 02:31
>>OP What made you decide to change? I'm also a decade-long Debian user who's thinking of moving to slackware....
>2 eliwatson @ 2025/02/16 19:35
>>1 Curiousity Mostly, I wanted to see whats all the fuss was about. Also i3 works really well on arch and I like beinga able to customize evreyting. Oh, and rolling relase and the AUR so I actually have updated packages.
>3 bobby @ 2025/03/04 18:09
>>OP Hi What notification system do you use? What do you say about this? https://github.com/sboli/twmn
>4 tsukaj @ 2025/03/06 21:02
i've been thinking about installing arch on my old macbook too, for fun. it doesn't see much use atm, as i can't be bothered to deal with macos anymore, but maybe arch will give it new life.
>5 krellr @ 2025/03/10 02:28
I avoided it for a long time because of the cockswinging that was done over it. Im embarassed to tell people I use it because I dont want to be associated with the tone of the early userbase or forums, but I really like it and am sticking with it for the forseeable future. I like not having numerous gigs of programs pre-selected for me and it has gone onto everything I have thrown it at and worked 98%. it has kept me from trying any more distros for now.
>6 TheTaoOfSu @ 2025/03/17 13:39
I used Arch for a good few years. I tried Debian at one point a year or two ago, and I was annoyed with just how dated a lot of the packages I wanted were. I never had any stability issues or anything with it, always enjoyed it a lot once it was tweaked to my liking. I moved to NixOS a few months ago, though, and I don't see myself moving back anytime soon. I'm pretty fond of the way NixOS lets you do so much through the config files, and it's suuuper handy for backing up and reinstalling. It's also really nice to be able to set up a server in a VM and then deploy it almost instantly on the real hardware, already confident that it's very nearly fully configured.
>7 ekkie @ 2025/03/27 09:24
You can actually get up to date packages on debian. Debian Unstable/sid is like a rolling release version of debian, although the debian team considers it too unstable to call it a "release"
>8 dskully @ 2025/04/15 21:10
>>OP welcome to the club! I don't know if it's my fault but other distros were taking way too much space in my ssd, so I decided to give arch a try, and now I'm pretty happy with it :)