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I grew tired of bad "Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}" articles so I wrote one that I would consider useful myself when starting out.

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[–] toadmode 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now that arch has an actual install script, i'm not sure if there's much reason to use an arch derivative instead of just using arch

A beginner wouldn't want to use an install script. Unless it's changed since i used it a few months ago it's much less user friendly than a gui installer like the one ubuntu has