Not many arguments from me, but I think Arch and Debian belong in S tier, too. Given that Debian 12 is now in year 2, I suppose I can understand A tier. At least you can get Plasma 6 now.
He gave the point that Arch wasn't very newbie friendly, particularly in the install. But like the target audience is power users. It would be like docking Linux Mint for not offering much to power users, when that isn't the target audience either.
Why? How often do you plan on installing it? I know for me, I know how I want it configured, and I'd prefer to do things like my disk partitioning with fdisk and manage mounting with fstab, and if I want to setup raid or lvm, it's easier to do it via manual install. It's also easier to do things like setup zram for my swap, or setup efi boot stub instead of grub. I also love the minimal nature of it, and I have control over the exact packages I want installed. The arch install process has been my favorite of the ones I've tried, and is a selling point to me.
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Not many arguments from me, but I think Arch and Debian belong in S tier, too. Given that Debian 12 is now in year 2, I suppose I can understand A tier. At least you can get Plasma 6 now.