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Discussion on: Why I always recommend Arch Linux

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Karlo Vrbić • Edited

If you are not experienced with Linux I would recommend Mint instead of any Arch based distribution. Some stuff just doesn't work out of the box on Arch and that is fine if you want to make highly tailored system to fit your preferences. On the other hand, Mint works out of the box, I never had to do anything myself and even my parents, who don't know anything about PCs, use it as their only OS. When you learn a bit about Linux and a bit about scripting(BASH, Python, etc.) I would recommend using Arch based distribution or plain Arch because you can customize everything and it forces you to do some stuff manually(e.g. you need to write script in order to audio to switch automatically to HDMI when connection is present). Because some stuff is not out of the box you get highly efficient OS that uses small amount of resources and does only stuff you need and want it to do.

EDIT: Also I had many problems with Ubuntu as a newcomer so I wouldn't recommend it over Mint.