• AProfessional@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Arch is cool and all, but why in the world is that your choice for nontechnical users… it is not robust and isn’t meant to be.

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      7 months ago

      we only started these restores a year ago and when we did all the main distros and others were tested and researched on for this project

      ultimately Arch was chosen due to pacman and the AUR repositories plus steam was using it

      the shop packed the install with what they deemed universally needed packages including edge for the browser

      most patrons do like the familiarity that it provides and edge allows for office365

      a lot of us were super skeptical on this when we were told and had a lot of the same reservations but it has turned sales around one hundred percent though with a lot of ewaste saved

      the oldest was a centrino laptop from 2007 had the original hdd in it

      the patrons either use the console and update themselves or they bring it back for updates with some watching us do the updates then doing it themselves at home

      linux has made computers fun again at least at our place

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        7 months ago

        Wish you the best, but its a bad choice. The AUR isn’t safe, as-in reliable between updates.

        Valve makes snapshots into their versioned atomic OS, so its safe. Plus a few custom packages, they don’t just use Arch and their choice isn’t relevant IMO.

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          7 months ago

          Yup, if I were doing this business, I’d install Linux Mint by default, though I’d offer a few other options if customers want something specific.

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            7 months ago

            Or Fedora if the user picks Gnome. Honestly, don’t make users pick distros, but user interfaces. Most wouldn’t want to understand the technical differences between Mint/Fedora/whatever because at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter.