Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop?

Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop? by tictacttoe on Sunday July 15, 2018 @11:54PM (#17538643)

If you are reasonable comfortable in Linux and a developer, I'd strongly recommend Arch with i3 window manager. Pacman is fantastic. The initial setup is a bit of a pain, but it's so much smoother and more stable from that point forward.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop? by subsection1h on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:05AM (#17538890)

How is Arch "more stable" than Ubuntu LTS?

How is maintaining an Arch installation "so much smoother"? The user must carefully review a PKGBUILD every time any installed AUR package needs to be updated[1], which will happen frequently because the user will need many AUR packages to make up for the fact that there are only 10,200 Arch packages[2], much less than Ubuntu's 81,563 packages[3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/3yiq4s/is_the_au...

[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/

[3] https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/allpackages?format=txt.gz

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Re:Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop? by dahdum on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:47AM (#17542224)

I ran Arch for a couple years and agree with OP that it "feels" smoother and more stable. The documentation is fantastic, like FreeBSD, and you end up with a streamlined system you understand well if you go through the manual process.

I moved back to Ubuntu only so I could use the same ansible scripts locally as prod.

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