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I've lately been using Arch as my development environment inside containers on other OSes. I've been loving it mainly because of the rolling releases of packages I use every day, and the ease of availability of more niche packages.

Now I'm getting a new (refurbished) desktop computer and am wondering what the best setup is for someone who's never installed Arch on bare metal before and is a little bit worried about some bad update breaking the whole machine. Should I just go for it and install Arch aa the base OS? Or should I install something more stable like Debian and use Arch through Distrobox?

Note: I am pretty comfortable installing and configuring unixy OSes from scratch as I have installed FreeBSD on two machines in the past year and I'm sure Arch is rather similar.

EDIT: In case it makes a difference, I'll likely be installing KDE Plasma.

Hi guys, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD. I installed it on a headless server and played around with it a good bit. Now I'm getting a cheap refurbished laptop and want to try to install FreeBSD 15.0 on it and will want a desktop environment.

Throughout my career, I've almost never used *nix DEs other than occasionally using GNOME on Ubuntu by necessity on computers that I had access to, usually just to get to a terminal emulator anyway.

After some initial research, I would prefer to use Wayland over X if it is possible to meet my other preferences:

- Productivity over glossiness
- Future-facing over stable-but-dying
- Relatively easy to set up for someone who is not a sysadmin (but then again someone who is going out of his way to put FreeBSD on a laptop...)

I assume with X it's much easier.