Jesus fuckin’ Christ… FWIW Arch is my daily driver and all I had to do to use it was install programs I wanted (I’m familiar with the terminal so I prefer yay commands to a GUI, plus I like to consciously know what changes on my machine, and GUIs often come with recommendation advertising)
And things that I didn’t do on Windows but is unique to my use case was:
switch DE to one that can better support my specific desire of replicating Wallpaper Engine with Hidamari;
Install openrazer-driver for (again) my specific desire of controlling my existing Razer hw with Polychromatic;
Fiddle with xone and xpad-noone so my Xbox controllers work via their respective dongles;
occasionally write .desktop files for the programs I wanted that only came as an .appimage
shop around for my preferred libre Office suite
My experience with Ubuntu and Debian have been exactly the same
Jesus fuckin’ Christ… FWIW Arch is my daily driver and all I had to do to use it was install programs I wanted (I’m familiar with the terminal so I prefer yay commands to a GUI, plus I like to consciously know what changes on my machine, and GUIs often come with recommendation advertising)
And things that I didn’t do on Windows but is unique to my use case was:
My experience with Ubuntu and Debian have been exactly the same