I’m thinking of choosing Debian instead. I’m a student, low on budget, and wanna play with linux and laptops, and I think Arch or Cachy OS need updates or distro upgrades(?) weekly or something?

Solved: up to date Arch can last for 2 decades on my cheap laptop, and use Flatpak for older versions of software.

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
    9·
    11 hours ago

    I run arch on a 2007 laptop. It was a cheap laptop at the time. Still runs very fine. Unless you want to keep the laptop running for the next 40 years I wouldn’t worry too much.

    • CarlLandry357@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I think I can see it, codes added to the latest release is unnoticeable, but are you forced to use the heaviest software? or are you able to choose the older ones?

      • ranzispa@mander.xyz
        2·
        9 hours ago

        If you install from repositores you are forced to use the latest version. You can use older versions through appimages. In general, there’s no real reason to use older versions unless you need to reproduce something specific which was done in the past doing it in the same way.

      • Brgor@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        The beauty of Arch is you only have to install the software you actually want.