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Any distro I should use?

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arch is only hard because it's hard to install without the script, and you don't know which packages you need to get a Desktop Environment up and running.

Endeavour takes care of everything, and gives you multiple options for DE's.

I second EndeavourOS, Arch has the king of package managers, pacman.

You want to install a package on Ubuntu but it isn't in the repo? You need to search for its repo code, add it, then install - it's basically how you install applications on Windows.

Want to install a package on Arch?

sudo pacman -S package

Nothing found?

yay -S package

Doesn't get much better than that.