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  • pacman in my opinion is the easiest package manager ive used but even so if it is that difficult then they can use a GUI package manager that would come pre installed on most GUI arch based distros

    Recognizing that’s your opinion, in my opinion it’s the hardest I’ve used. The commands are all flags, so you have to remember letters instead of “install” or “upgrade” if you want to use any packages outside of the like 4 in the official repos, you have to enable AUR, which is effectively just installing from source from some random person’s GitHub repo, in which any number of things can go wrong. I mean, there’s a reason there exist a bunch of different wrappers for pacman.









  • IMO, the best distro is going to be whatever you’re most comfortable with (given it’s still getting updates blah blah blah). Some might be easier in the get go but if they do wonky things (compared to what you’re used to) an update might really screw you up and leave you in a situation where you’re doing a lot of research.

    For the most part, you can make any distro do whatever you want, but if you understand one much better than the rest, use that.






    • Is it better to run KDE for this or GNOME?

    This would be replacing KDE or GNOME, that being said you can still use tooling from either if you wish but for the most part the DE you’re using tooling from would be wasted disk space

    • Is Hyprland overrated? Are there any other alternatives?

    Haven’t used hyprland myself, but Sway is a solid choice