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[–] [email protected] 115 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Why would one unuse Arch btw?

[–] [email protected] 125 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Arch is only the larval stage. When a Linuxite consumes enough CLI, they metamorphose into one of two adult forms: a Void user, or a NixOS user. As these two adult forms are incompatible, this is a rare case of species divergence within a life cycle. Even more oddly, like the axolotl, many Arch users never leave the larval stage, and continue living comfortably in their ecological niche.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Wow, this is so well explained, I'm making it my personal copypasta!

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Switching to nixos?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As someone who switched to nixos - eh. So much hacking to make dev stuff work really kills the magic that nixos is supposed to be :|

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it is a lot of initial work, but once you got your shell.nix or flake.nix in place it is really nice, to not have to deal with different dependencies and versions in different projects.

But you can also archive the same on any distro with the nix package manager.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (7 children)

except i want my computer to function for my needs without "a lot of initial work"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It's an investment for the next time you install on a new dev machine. After install, I will literally run a single command to return to the exact state of my dev environment.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

i dunno wanting an os that actually just works without a lot of setup?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Look at the community where it was posted.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think with inflation a picture is only worth 700 words.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

S6E4 Game Changers dropped literally yesterday and you wasted no time recycling the joke

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Friendship ended with Arch. Now Void is my best friend!

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We get it, you used arch. You don’t need to write a thousand words telling us.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But the Wiki is soooo nice! And have you seen AUR!

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago

I used to run Arch, btw

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I use mint, btw.

(…Not really but it fits the joke the best. I have used it and it’s an excellent distro whether you are a beginner or just want something stable and full featured. )

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Mint is such a pragmatic distro. Honestly I admire people who are just happy with their Mint and don't feel the need to distro hop to ever more esoteric package ecosystems just to feel alive

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Ugh ex Star Trek nerds, am I right guys? /s

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's obvious a jealous Manjaro user stole that dude's sticker...

Edit: almost forgot... I use arch btw...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I use NixOS btw

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Became straight

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I don't see what the problem is with Arch Linux and why it gets so much flak. I am not a Linux expert by any measure, but I use EndeavourOS and find it really use to use (don't ask me to install from scratch). Its extremely stable and I like the fact that it gets updated constantly.

The only other distro I really liked is MX Linux. My main gripe was that I don't want to reinstall every so many years. I want to set up an OS and just use it without worrying about it being a temporary thing. But maybe I'll change my mind in the future.

I'm not for or against any distro really, maybe except Ubuntu and its bloat. I just use what best suits me, which is the whole point of all the different distros.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Manjaro is truly the worst distro of all time and probably helps give arch a bad name

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Oracle Linux exists

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

i think its just people taking the "i use arch btw" meme too seriously and thinking its bad to show or even use it all

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tips Fedora.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (67 children)

I've used arch on one machine now, am a total noob to it, and I really like it. I see what people are raving about and I see no reason to shit on it. I don't really care if 6 years ago some people were annoying about it

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't use Arch, btw

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I couldn't figure out how to make the wifi on my Debian machine reliable so I replaced the default wifi manager front-end and backend with iwctl, the same thing Arch uses by default. It seems to be working but now I have an unholy abomination of Debian spliced with Arch DNA.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Every distro is an unholy abomination made by plugging the maintainers' favorite parts together

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

A simple fix is to replace the rest of Debian with Arch.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

artix my beloved

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I was asked what I think of the distro "Arch btw" since everyone recommends it. Gold.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

!btw

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What dist to you use btw?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I use BTW btw

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NixOS, it has a lot of the same pain points as Arch, even steeper learning curve for installation and configuration. And lose support for even more software titles.

If it's not 1995 slackware difficult I don't want it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Arch is a pain to setup BTW. It's worth it, though you'd be better using something like the installer for cachyOS to get the same experience

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm partial to Endeavor OS personally. It's basically just Arch without the bullshit of setting it up.