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Arch is great if you want to customize your system, but I wouldn’t say it really needs “maintaining” beyond just updating more frequently. (which you don’t even really need to do very often, you just have the option to get newer versions of software.)

Have you tried rolling back the affected packages from the main repo?

You can’t use mastodon from Lemmy, but you can from some threadiverse software like Kbin.

No it won’t. The beauty of Linux is that it can transform completely to fit your needs.

Making Linux more noob friendly isn’t going to take away my custom terminal-centric tiling wm arch install.

More users = more developers = more options. Linux is already awesome, but growing will only bring more good.

If you want to try something else, you can always just install and try it out, while keeping plasma installed. That way you don’t need to worry about setting everything up in one go.

Tiling wms are pretty awesome (i3 is my daily), but they do require some setup and customization. You can always use someone else’s dotfiles as a starting point though.

I’m going to second this. Krita is really good. FOSS should always be your first choice.

EndeavourOS (which is very close to vanilla Arch, in a good way) comes with yay, which makes installing software super easy. You can search for and install a program by just typing "yay " and selecting what you want to download. Note that this also works for anything in the AUR, which includes lots of stuff that you’d usually have to manually compile.