Debian VS Arch | Which is Better

After over 2 months of work, my most detailed and edited video yet is finally here. I present to you, the Debian VS Arch distro comparison. Next video, I will use significantly less whoosh effects, specifically where they aren't very important and cause distraction, and they will be reserved for the bigger and greater animations.

EDIT: As a commenter pointed out, at 2:30, "sudo pacman -Qu" is incorrect. I'm not sure how it ended up in my script when trying to find a pacman command to demonstrate additional lowercase flags, I should've done more testing to verify that it actually was the command to list installed packages, I believed "-Q" in pacman to be equivalent to "list" in apt, and "-Qu" in pacman to be equivalent to "list --installed" in apt, however "-Q" in pacman is actually equivalent to "list --installed" in apt.

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Mentioned videos:

0:00 Intro
0:50 Base System
3:27 User Experience
8:49 Efficiency
9:53 Performance
16:38 Stability
18:11 Compatibility
20:52 Security & Privacy
22:04 Conclusion & Winner
22:47 Outro

[TheLinuxCast]

This was excellent. Can I ask what you use to edit your videos?

[chrislinuxtutorials]

Top-notch editing! Awesome explanation as well! The best video you have ever made.

[ElHua]

Subscribed. It is nice to see someone so young show such an in-depth understanding of any subject.

[proverbsvs]

Wow, this is fantastically well produced and very informative, thank you, i always look forward to your videos ☺️

[kaslmineer]

8:23: bro wants to remove his entire filesystem

[ArNeN_osu]

Quite insane graphics for such a small channel, love it

[pinheaddomi]

Really impressed by your level of quality, definitely subscribing for more!

[cx]

Debian has my vote. Granted I'm bias and have several years with Debian and a year with Arch (Manjaro). On my desktop is Manjaro.

[Tvirus]

You remind me of a young MKBHD, keep up the good work

[Cesar_EP]

Excelente edicion y comparativa! Tu canal tiene un enorme potencial 💪💪

[markjones]

Great video sir. One thing to consider on your video editing is that I had to basically turn my subwoofer completely down because your voice is lower in volume and every few seconds there was this loud boom. Maybe try and balance the audio spectrum a little more and match levels a little better so people don't blow out their eardrums. lol But like I said, great video.

[DV-mlfm]

I like them both. However, when I use arch I use a more advanced installation of arch with LUKS + LVM to do snapshots. The editing is awesome, I can see why it took a long time to render. 🙂

[moussaadem]

18:50 debian count is inflated because they split packages. for example, a package in arch includes the binary, the documentation and the source if necessary. while in Debian those would be 3 separate packages

[lucyinchat]

Child, you have good aesthetics and editing skills.

[LaSpookyEXE]

Yeah I’ve install arch old school way took me like an hour is like water boarding I learned a lot though

[LittleDreamer]

Never tried out debian, but started out with arch and stayed there because it super fast and customizable on my pc and helps me learn linux deeper.

[FrankZen]

Arch. EndeavorOS is pure love. I also had Linux Mint Debian Edition and loved that too. Just love Endeavor more. I love rolling updates.

[Earl.Norris]

Great simple explanation. The editing is on another level keep it up you have one more subscriber.

I am very surprised some people saying Arch is more stable in their own pininon.

i use Debian as a daily driver since 1998 but maybe i could try Arch again on a spare computer. I workstation needs to be always up and running no time to waist. So the constant updates not properly tested gives me bad vibes.

[oblivikun]

from 11:14 to whenever you stopped measuring package manager installation speed, its important to note that debian has less packages preinstalled than arch so it has to install more dependencies, making it slower, it would be better to test installing just gimp or neofetch or whatever.

[danyukhin]

awesome video, thank you for your hard work
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