Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by jamespo on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:55AM
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Have you looked at EndeavourOS?
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by tshanmu on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:24AM
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kali
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by pantalaimon on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:44AM
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That's just Debian
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by zdragnar on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:02AM
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For general audiences, Manjaro (arch base) fits your ask pretty well, I think. I ran into problems installing arch, switched to Manjaro, and never looked back.
Pop_os! is coming from the other direction, but I found I prefer using i3/sway instead as I had trouble configuring certain things about pop.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by rthomas6 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:26AM
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Perhaps Manjaro? It tries to be a more user-friendly Arch-like distro.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
by cykros on Friday November 25, 2022 @07:44AM
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Slackware.
Only reason I've seen to use anything else is if doing a full desktop installation doesn't make sense, as the installer is largely geared around just installing most everything, or perhaps leaving out a category or two. Beyond that, the documentation is clear, and it's made as easy to use as makes sense without just hiding things behind a black box so that when things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong.
Nice to see some of these newer distros like Arch and Ubuntu are coming along though; choice is good.
Perhaps with a focus on the audience (e.g. a web dev distro), it becomes viable to make sensible compromises on both (easiness & simplicity) that result in a good combination for the user.