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Before switching to Arch, check if packages you rely on for your job are not in the AUR. It became "a hobby" really quick for me to rebuild my entire dev stack because of the bleeding edge approach and "let's update every week and fix source code while we're at it".

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Do you have any examples of such packages that were missing? I've been using arch for maybe five years at this point and am an embedded developer. I had maybe oneor two times that I had to install something that was not in the aur.

For me, that was ROS (in Robotics). Some people I worked with had issues with Anaconda.

I miss Arch though, I learned a lot about Linux through it, but every hour spent fixing something is an hour less spent on actual work.

What do you use now?

LTS Ubuntu with a window manager I learned when using Arch (bspwm)

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