pyromaniac_donkeyshhhh dont tell them :)
SpaceCadetThe irony is that “it just works” is often more true for Arch than for other distros because it has up-to-date drivers for everything.
Try to get a Radeon 7900XT working on Ubuntu 22.04 for example. It’s possible, but you’ll be jumping through much more hoops than on Arch.
bob_wileyThat’s a double edge sword though. Bleeding edge updates also mean more bugs that need to get worked out, so how seamless the experience is may be up to luck or the amount of effort being put in to keeping up on release notes.
Absolutely right, though the Arch maintainers do put in a lot of QA effort to keep breaking bugs out.
At the end of the day, it depends on what you want: an up-to-date rolling release distro where the latest stable version of almost every imaginable piece of FOSS is at your finger tips, or a distro where the software selection is curated for you and that “just works” as long as you color inside the lines of its limitations.