Arch vs debian based distros

Marco_Weiss

Curious as too what the community thinks is the best distro and why. Try to compare those that are similar primarily, the fact that Arch is more for experienced users is already known. 😀

Frederik_Madsen

Now to put it simply, Debian/Ubuntu based distros are often seen as more user friendly, apt has more packages in it's repositories than pacman for instance. On the other hand, pacman is faster and simply a better package manager in my opinion, more clean, easier to use and faster.

Then there's the arch user repository which provides more packages (compiled from source) than apt is seems. That's an unbeatable feature, plus that Arch based distros comes with the most recent versions of every package while Debian/Ubuntu can have many years old packages that only receives security updates.

Orson_Deforest

I do prefer arch too, lot's of packages in aur and always up to date. But if you're not interested in keeping the system up to date and just want something that works for long periods of time without trouble, go with Debian.

Boris_Zaitseva

Alpine is pretty good too, very lightweight and already used in docker containers. It's a shame that not more providers has it in their stock natively.

Pepe_The_Frog

Boris_Zaitseva Good point fren, totally underrated distro.

Josef

Boris_Zaitseva Gentoo, DSL (Damn Small Linux), the amount of small distros are endless. But Alpine is probably the most easy to use, and most compatible out of the box with releases for almost every existing cpu architecture.