Arch Linux -- excellent documentation, by the way. Other linux distros refer to it, too. Comparatively small, if not outright minimal. Has a decent package manager. Comparatively popular (i.e. is considered a "major" distro), therefore many of the most useful programs are distributed precompiled, as Arch packages.
(I myself compile most of the stuff beyond the basic system, and place it under /usr/loca/, which I put first in my PATH - this basically solves incompatibility and priority problems)
Arch Linux is much smaller and better than Debian. I generally prefer more "unix-like" distros, and have been a long-time user of Slackware, for example
I remember Slackware was very nice and popular distro in the last century, but never heard anything about its current state in the last years. ArchLinux - maybe I will try it, I also like minimalistic design principles, but not sure about its stability. One most important criteria for me : stable long term support. Not like what careless Ubuntu did. Good example of "Democracy (Debian) vs. Monarchy (Ubuntu)" ;)
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Comparatively small, if not outright minimal. Has a decent package manager. Comparatively popular (i.e. is considered a "major" distro), therefore many of the most useful programs are distributed precompiled, as Arch packages.
(I myself compile most of the stuff beyond the basic system, and place it under /usr/loca/, which I put first in my PATH - this basically solves incompatibility and priority problems)
Arch Linux is much smaller and better than Debian. I generally prefer more "unix-like" distros, and have been a long-time user of Slackware, for example
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