No way, Debian uses systemd, and systemd uses systemd-journald for logging, and doesn't need cron, because it has timers.

My real first time using Linux was with Pop!_OS in April last year.

The difference here is more between release types, I think. Arch is rolling, so there are updates you can get every few minutes. Debian is a rock, and rocks aren't known for moving a lot.

(The command is sudo pacman -Syu btw)

At least for me, there wasn't an equivalent replacement.

I haven't had laptop-related issues on either

I prefer Krita

you're usually only using one at a time.

smh get real, install Hyprland and 50 utilities for it (30 of those are sway utilities)

you're right, installing pandoc on arch really comes with a lot of bloat. Iirc it's >200 haskell libraries.

It's not bloat if you use it.

Mac is when you're still small and don't have a concept of gender

no way anyone would voluntarily use apt after using pacman