Why I can't recommend Arch or Gentoo

[Tony Baechler]

OK, fine, but here's the thing.  As long as most people (yes, there are 
exceptions) want a live desktop, I can't recommend Arch.  I've had a few 
people tell me privately that they won't even consider Arch for exactly this 
reason.  If it's a choice by the Arch developers, that's too bad as most 
people are turned off by this.

I haven't seriously looked at Gentoo in about 10 years, so if they do have a 
live desktop image, I don't know about it.  I haven't seen it on the various 
mirrors.  If there is such an image, please send me a link and I'll evaluate 
it.  Similarly, if there is a simple installer which actually guides you 
through the process like Debian or FreeBSD, I'll take a look.  I like Gentoo 
in concept, but I can't recommend it for the masses due to the above issues. 
  There was going to be a fork which was going to address some of these 
issues, but I don't know whatever became of it.

On 9/21/2015 5:05 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> The thing about no live desktop is an explicit arch decision, could even say
> it's a feature, same about gentoo, but gentoo has, or did have at some
> point, a live image.
>