Probably took me 4 hours in total, including all the reading, and I’m nowhere near a Linux expert - and at least 1 hour of that was me not understanding EFIstubs! I did it before the install script but I’m told that makes it very easy and - it wasn’t really that hard before as long as you are prepared to go step by step through the wiki. That said, if you have time to try Arch then I would give it a go. If it’s working for you then I’d be inclined to stick with what you’re doing. I mean, I’m largely talking bollocks given I’ve never needed a new R version so badly I couldn’t have waited but, you know, it’s nice to feel up to date! For example, it was nice not having to wait 6 months for the base pipe! (Albeit I’m liking how Fedora handles R as well with it being linked to flexiblas, and the copr being full of R package binaries - even if that is a bit delayed with R version, too). Trivially easy to install (no harder than Ubuntu) and I haven’t looked back since. I mean, what is Ubuntu’s latest R at the moment - 4.1.something? That’s why I moved to Arch (among some other software requirements) as the new R versions are in it very quickly. I moved away from that as I was fed up with having to wait so long for new R versions / manually deal with it. Regarding your second paragraph, to be honest I’m not sure - at least from my equally ancient Ubuntu days, I used it exclusively through my PhD - that Debian based is the best option. deb and then converting them to Arch compatible.) A bit like how Arch does with the AUR sometimes using. (And also hedging my bets in case Suse these days had developed some mechanism to use apt on. rpm, I was politely making the point that that command likely wouldn’t work for OP.
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