On the other hand, becuase of their long testing periods and rigid guidelines, Debian stable is probably very stable, while occassionaly updates to Arch will cause problems.
Arch vs debian upgrade#
In a nutshell, this means that Arch is almost always more up to date than "Debian Stable", and that you don't have to do a massive system upgrade every year or so w/ Arch, you just upgrade as changes are made. There are also "testing" and "unstable" releases of Debian. Debian releases a "stable" release every year or so, for which only bug fixes and security fixes are released. 3rd party frontends exist for pacman.Īrch has a rolling release systems, as soon as an updated and tested package exists, it's added to the repositaries and you can upgrade that package w/ pacman. Debian provides an officially supported GUI frontend for apt (edit: aptitude is a text based front end for apt), synaptic. They provide similar functionality but have different interfaces. I don't think Debian has an equivalent to the ABS or AUR, but there are a huge selection of binary builds available for Debian.īoth Debian and Arch have great (in my opinion) binary package managers, aptitute (edit: shoud be "apt") and pacman, respectively. You can also use the ABS (arch build system) to rebuild core packages from source, should you want to.
More software installed by default (unless you do a minimal install, in which case you end up with a system comparable to the Arch base install).Īrch has fewer binary packages, but drawing on AUR, you can easily compile almost anything from source using "yaourt", which takes longer than installing a binary package, but is just as painless. The Arch approach is to have you build you're system from CORE up, doing most of the configuration manually, Debian automates alot of this process and provides
Arch vs debian install#
Or maybe just easier to find, I had lots of trouble with the Debian documenation.ĭebian, by default, will install the GNOME environment, pure Arch Linux won't install X or a Desktop, you have to install these yourself. I found that arch was easier to install and configure than Debian, not because the process was easier, but becuase Arch had documentation that wasĮasier for me to understand. Try reading the distrowatch reviews for both.
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