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For me is not necessary, because with Arch you can get that and is very customizable.
Great! Thanks for the feedback ! Personally , I feel Arch is hard to install & that makes it harder to get setup.
My main problems with arch are as follows:
1) the difficulty of the installation, Which could be fixed with a gui installer
2) Forgive me if I am wrong The compile it yourself aspect of AUR
If you a developer, the instalation should be relative easy following some videos, or there are Calamares installers for Arch Linux, or you could use ArcoLinux, that is like an Arch with installer.
AUR use just scripts to install no official packages in your Arch System, sometimes you need to compile something because it gets from source, but you only need to type makepkg -si or you can use some AUR helper
Thanks , Archcraft is good too. Could you tell me a Calamares installer to arch? Thanks for the info on AUR too. I will update the list with AUR.
An installation process that is automated. I really don't mind if it's text based or has a graphical interface. As long as the tedious steps are all automated, it's all good.
Semi-rolling release model would be nice. I mean, give me small security updates for many months then maybe 2 or 3 big updates a year. No clean re-install for big updates, I hate those.
Offer a minimal image, for those who already know how to assemble their own desktop environment.
Offer scripts to setup dedicated tools for a language or workflow. I don't work on java, but I have been told that is a pain to setup on linux, so it would be nice if there was some script that does everything for you. So instead of having a lot of programs installed what you could do is create scripts that can install those tools for you.
Great Idea(s)! Will update this list! I agree about the huge updates , by the way
Any Linux distribution that allows you to install the development tools that you need.
Great ! So you don't need anything specifically?
No.
You have a lot of distributions to choose from. A majority of them will work well for doing development. I recommend using one of the major Linux distributions that have been around for a while.
Could you give me some examples?
Also , Is their anything in particular that makes these less optimal to use for development. Eg: no support for a certian format ?
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, LinuxMint, MX Linux, Pop!_OS, etc should be okay.
None are less optimal for development. You just need to select the distribution and desktop (KDE, Xfce, Gnome, etc) you like best.