Question for daily-driver artix users

archbtw

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Just considering trying your distro on my main desktop. Are there any problems with aur packages? Fartix repo has about 2 times lower amount of them, and I'm not sure it would work long-term without broken updates with aur repo, with their systemd compatibility layer.

Is there anyone who's using it for a long time here? How it is? How's AUR repo there? Arch is stable btw, if we're comparing.
 


Hello @archbtw
Welcome to the Linux.org
I'm not a long time artix user so can't be of much help, but I'm sure someone will be along with advise.
In the mean time enjoy the journey!
 
Bumping a topic [apart from annoying the admin's] won't do you much good, I have been on these boards for a few years now, and from memory this is the first time a question has been raised about this particular distribution, which may indicate that it is not very popular , they do however have their own forums at [but they do not appear very busy]
 
As @Brickwizard says, it's probably not all that useful but I don't mind a bump after it has been a reasonable time. In this case, it was more than a week, so I'd normally just skim the post again and close the tab unless I thought I had the ability to offer more help.

I've never used this disto but the name does pop up now and again.
 
I've only seen someone here use Artic on an occasion here, so not likely you will get alot of answers. I agree with the advice @Brickwizard gave.
 
I have been on these boards for a few years now, and from memory this is the first time a question has been raised about this particular distribution, which may indicate that it is not very popular ,

Lol, actually, there are 5 pages of them in Search, over the last 5 years, but thanks for mentioning that, I responded to one query I had missed

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@archbtw -I have been using it for 3 - 4 years, but not as a daily driver.

...and I'm not sure it would work long-term without broken updates with aur repo, with their systemd compatibility layer.

Not sue what you mean by that, they don't use systemd.

They have a choice of about 4 init systems, I use OpenRC on mine.
 
@archbtw -I have been using it for 3 - 4 years, but not as a daily driver.



Not sue what you mean by that, they don't use systemd.

They have a choice of about 4 init systems, I use OpenRC on mine.
They have some sort of systemd compatibility layer (hacks, whatever) to make packages that depend on systemd work. I asked for experience-based thoughts about the stability of this approach, you can't just check it by yourself without using it for a relatively long time. Neutral forums look like a perfect place for that type of question to avoid biases.
 


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