Arch distros still require you to read the release notes before updating. It's not a hassle free affair, and those who don't do it are bound to break their system once in a while.
foobarijk
joined 11 months ago
I'd avoid Arch or Arch based distros if you don't want to always tinker with the system to keep it running.
I think Fedora best fits your needs.
Just keep in mind that rolling releases are by definition not as stable as non-rolling. For example, Kernel 6.4 has introduced an interrupt storm for some motherboards with buggy implementation of TPM interrupts, and it'd get fixed only in 6.5...
Not very minimal with regards to disk usage, though.. It comes with lots of (to me) unnecessary bloat.
He wanted something stable.. Arch based systems require you to read the release notes each time you upgrade to make sure there's nothing special you must do. Those who are unaware of this requirement often end up with broken systems. Also I wouldn't call Arch based systems without GUI configuration tools not being too complex... Arch is for those who like to tinker, edit lots of config text files and read man pages and wiki entries.
Personally, I like Arch Arcos and even Manjaro (Probably EOS as well, but it doesn't play well with Ventoy) - but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who just wants things to work out of the box with minimal tinkering and not require special attention when updating.
He specifically asked for a minimal distro, that was why I brought it up.