By salfet on Skatehive
I still simply think it's terrible to recommend Arch Linux of all things to new users. Big fan of Arch, I think its issues are wayyyy blown out of proportion by some people (especially nowadays - it's gotten way easier), but I do not encourage non-techy people or complete newbies to go into Arch expecting it to just work and go totally fine the first time. I've been using Arch for a couple years now off and on - it's always the long term that gives me issues, almost never the install. In fairness, a lot of those issues are simply me getting irritated because I don't clean the system regularly, but there can be very real issues if you just... update every day/week and think you can ignore other system maintenance. I mean realistically the biggest issue with this stuff is that like almost everyone going out of their way to talk about Linux online is like incredibly far removed from the concept of the casual computer user - I make that same mistake all the time, and it also frustrates peo