No. Both CUPS and Netflix work perfectly fine for me on Arch.

You’re probably confusing it with Alpine.

Despite the memes, Arch isn’t that hard to install nowadays. The Wiki is stellar and archinstall is a thing (as well as EndeavourOS).

But Debian testing is a fine choice as well, of course.

It’s based on Firefox, but those modifications do have a rather large impact in terms of privacy.

Outer Wilds had so many profound moments, imho. Just listing a couple more:

In my experience, once you’ve got Arch set up, it less work to maintain than Manjaro. On Arch, you have noticeably more frequent, but smaller, package updates. On Manjaro, compatibility issues with the AUR may occur, which happened a few times for me, while that won’t happen on Arch.

$ fuck

Comes in handy quite frequently.

Of course, one doesn’t have to install Arch manually; archiso and Endeavour are great conveniences and exist for a reason.

That doesn’t change the fact that people who rely on those tools not because they want to save some time/effort but because they’re unable to follow wiki instructions are likely better off with something other than Arch.

And if one is not able to install Arch using archinstall, then they should question themselves if Arch is even the right distro for them.

Without wanting to be elitist, I’d go further than that. While archinstall is a nice convenience, even the “manual” installation is really just diligently reading and following the wiki guide.

If that’s too much for you, you’re likely going to struggle when stuff needs manual intervention and you’re probably better off with a different distro.

Is “I use zsh, btw.” a thing yet?

Doesn’t prevent the initial crash, of course, but there won’t be one on the next boot.

That depends a bit on the ruleset. According to Guinness (where hyperventilating with pure oxygen beforehand is allowed), it’s 24:37.36. According to the freediving organisation AIDA (where pre-breathing oxygen isn’t allowed), it’s 11:35

What distros are there that have drive encryption but don’t require decrypting the drive while booting? Isn’t LUKS pretty much the standard disk encryption for all Linux distributions?

Yes, but the tendency is there. Notably, “Alea iacta est” (commonly translated as “The die has fallen”) is closer in literal meaning to “The die has been thrown”.

Relevant xkxd

I’ve seen some organisations move from CentOS to Rocky Linux.

Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.

As someone who started out with Manjaro and used it for a bit over two years, it does its job alright. That said, Manjaro’s “let’s use Arch repos but delay them for two weeks” policy leads to compatibility issues with the AUR.
Also, they’ve repeatedly let their certificates expire (happened like 3 or 4 times, iirc) and there’s been some management controversy, especially surrounding Jonathon leaving.

If you want “Arch, but beginner friendly”, there’s better options than Manjaro, imho.

Takes about a second for me.

Fwiw, OpenStreetMap is pretty amazing

Yes, it’s usually still available, but systemd timers are the more “modern” way, which is why distros like Arch use them by default:

There are many cron implementations, but none of them are installed by default as the base system uses systemd/Timers instead

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cron

but it will make the planet a lot less habitable for humans.

And, unfortunately, for a wide range of other species.