I don’t have time for my system to be borked every 2 years. That’s why I use Arch.

It is. The defaults are a little bit more lenient, but it shouldn’t gobble up 80 GB of storage.

This is a valid man command, but not a tar command

Debians official resources are often outdated, fragmented and not comprehensive in the slightest. I had to scour email list and random blog post if I had to deal with some Debian tooling problems. It’s only saving grace, is that it fairly widespread, and that there are these random blog posts.