Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I’ve seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.
Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I’ve seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.
Edit: Added some context to my normie recommend statement, as I was in a rush…my bad, as I wasn’t calling out the person I was replying to…Just saying in general.
The TUI is still a lot better than having to type in terminal commands in the correct order…The downside is needing an internet connection to get archinstall going in my opinion. CachyOS’s installer has a tendency to fail as well. Which is something that isn’t often talked about. I had so many weird experiences with it, like it failed to install the kernel, boot loader, etc. Garuda Linux is probably the best for those with a desire to tinker to be perfectly honest. A good starting base that doesn’t fail at all.
Recommending any Arch based distro to a normie is basically a nonstarter and kinda unhinged behavior to be totally frank. I’ve honestly seen this and my gasters were flabbered. I always made sure to always redirect the person getting the recommendation to a saner one. As keeping people learning Linux is a good idea, making them leave because of frustration is…Not good.
It would be better to direct them to Mint, Fedora, or even Bazzite (depending on their needs). As the graphical installers are pretty good there!
Typing terminal commands is actually the easiest and the fastest way to install a Linux system. It’s just not a normie way, obviously. For the folks that know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, it’s just really simpler than walking through a GUI.
Most folks that know what they are doing would probably just reproduce their existing install (with some tweaks to account for hardware) with a config file and skip the fuss of typing too much, just the essential stuff. For me at the moment, I find graphical installers to be breezy as fuck, yet, I could see a time when maybe vanilla Arch is in my grasp. LOL Perhaps.
Right you are! I needed to install Linux like five times recently, this month alone, and the best I invented is to just clone my laptop’s system (Arch, by the way) and then tweak a few things here and there. In the future, I guess I won’t even bother installing when I can clone my system within minutes (and half an hour on waiting for rsync to finish).