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364 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 8h \ on: Omarchy - v3: Should I switch from Ubuntu? tech
Solely commenting on the OS:
Yes you should try it, except when you need a super-stable system or have a heightened security requirement. Arch is a rolling distro (and it's about as front-y as brew and Debian sid) so you're at the bleeding edge of any supply chain attack. For example, the xz backdoor made it into arch, whereas distros that stage & release caught it before release; there's some added risk here.
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I generally feel that many recommendations are given from a relatively noob/hype perspective. Like someone uses something new for a week and straight out recommends it to everyone, without mentioning any tradeoffs at all. So yeah, people are jumping on things too soon, I think, but I also get it: the hype cycle must be ridden or else it's gone.
But then, if install docs tell me to install rust nightly to get some tool to compile I'm always noping out, so maybe I'm just a slow, old boomer, ready to be deprecated together with my old codebases.
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Thanks! I'm generally not too worried on about high security stuff. I don't do anything sensitive on my main device. I may end up dual booting it.
That's a very important observation, thank you!
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