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Hey all,
Been umming and aahing about switching from Windows to a Linux OS as my primary desktop and finally decided to make the change and then install a smallish windows partition for a few games that refuse to work well with Wine/PlayOnLinux.
I've been debating between Arch Linux and the minimal Ubuntu installation to avoid getting any pre-packed applications that I don't want or need. Main reason for asking is my issues with Arch and the installation of certain programs that are only avaliable as .deb or .rpm files.
Ubuntu uses debian packages which seem to be the most common Linux install file however arch does not support this and I'm not too comfortable using the PKGBUILD system to get the files installed. The problem with Ubuntu being that I have little experience with apt and not 100% sure how it works with repositories etc.
So I suppose my question is would I be better off learning to write PKGBUILD files and using Arch or learning to use Apt and going with Ubuntu? Or is there another system like Arch that supports .deb or .rpm packages?
Cheers
Been umming and aahing about switching from Windows to a Linux OS as my primary desktop and finally decided to make the change and then install a smallish windows partition for a few games that refuse to work well with Wine/PlayOnLinux.
I've been debating between Arch Linux and the minimal Ubuntu installation to avoid getting any pre-packed applications that I don't want or need. Main reason for asking is my issues with Arch and the installation of certain programs that are only avaliable as .deb or .rpm files.
Ubuntu uses debian packages which seem to be the most common Linux install file however arch does not support this and I'm not too comfortable using the PKGBUILD system to get the files installed. The problem with Ubuntu being that I have little experience with apt and not 100% sure how it works with repositories etc.
So I suppose my question is would I be better off learning to write PKGBUILD files and using Arch or learning to use Apt and going with Ubuntu? Or is there another system like Arch that supports .deb or .rpm packages?
Cheers