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Re: Learning resources and material-wise, which distro has an easier learning curve - Debian or Arch?



On 20/05/2023 13:35, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
My query was different: whether I would shift out of Debian to Arch?
It highly depends on your activities. They are quite different.

It is not the case when similar questions causing flames and holy wars when general recommendation is to install the same distribution as your friends use, so you can ask their for help.
If CPU performance, amount of RAM, and size of disk allows it, try to 
install Arch in a virtual machine to get an impression. I would not 
recommend Arch to inexperienced users (I have never tried its flavors 
aimed to be more friendly).
However, any case, do not neglect docs from ArchLinux wiki (and from 
RedHat, SuSe, etc. sites as well). Just have in mind which parts are 
distribution agnostic, where important ideas are explained with examples 
specific to particular distributions, what instruction are not 
applicable to your case.
Debian, Fedora, RedHat, Ubuntu have quite rich package scripts. Similar 
aspects of ArchLinux configuration are left to users. What is 
implemented as e.g. a shell script in Debian, must be explained to Arch 
users in prose. It is a reason why ArchLinux has so detailed wiki.





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