Been daily driving Arch for 6 months now, but considering moving back to Debian. Not really taking full advantage of the Arch pros

While a bleeding-edge kernel is great, I don’t particularly need it. pacman is nice, but apt gets the job done too. Has anyone else switched from Arch to @debian? If so, did you miss anything from Arch that Debian couldn’t replicate?

  • superkret
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    3 months ago

    The only thing I miss from Arch is the simple packaging structure.
    On Debian, you often have to install additional packages to get all functionality you need out of a software. On Arch, everything that belongs to that software is included in the package.
    So Debian’s huge number of packages in the main repos are also a bit misleading, cause often they are split up into 10 packages for what would be 1 on Arch.
    In practice, I had about the same amount of issues with software I need that’s missing in the repo on both distros.
    But on Arch, the missing package is definitely in the AUR, while on Debian you’ll need a Flatpak.