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Ive gone through a lot of distros Mint, Ubtuntu, Debian, Fedora, mint (again), Debian (again), etc.

However, when I finally got to Arch I did so because I had no choice. I recently bought a new graphics card and it was the only one supporting many of the new features out of the box. The Linux kernel is always up-to-date, and I haven't had an upgrade problem in the 2 years I've been using it.

It's been interesting, because my second Debian computer which I keep around as a server has way more issues. It appears Arch supports more hardware, and in general (due to minimialist style) works a bit better on machines.

Idk just my two cents




Arch and Debian use the exact same kernel (Linux...), so they support the exact same hardware.


Except, Debian doesn't regularly release updates for theirs - where Arch is always up-to-date.


Debian backports has 4.12: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kernel&searchon=...

Arch also has 4.12 and 4.13 in testing: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=kernel&maintaine...

Doesn't seem like an appreciable difference.




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