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I laughed. Then I remembered that my first distro was Slackware.
I have never touched arch because i heard it was hard and i just wanted a distro that works without too much effort put in
I use nixos btw
I found it a great way to learn what the different components are actually for and how they interconnect/interact. But honestly, I would not use it as a daily driver again. I'm tired of fixing everything afer each update.
Went to Fedora, good and stable. Tried some OpenSUSE, nice and European. Settled with MX Linux. Ticked all the boxes, best Linux experience so far.
EndeavourOS ftw.
I would have used Arch as a teenager, at that time I reinstalled DOS/Windows every other month anyways and learned a lot.
Eventually I got fed up with all that and switched to Mint.
I picked Arch as my first distro about a year ago or so. Sure there was some things to learn but Archinstall was a breeze and after that the popularity of the distro means that there's lots of people asking and answering questions online. Also Archwiki is just fantastic. No regrets.
I had a little experience with Debian-based stuff on routers and whatnot going in, but when I finally migrated my main PC to linux I went with an Arch-based distro (cachyos) because the documentation on both projects is fantastic. I was able to get everything set up the way I wanted in a couple of days, with only one reinstall along the way lol.
Trial by fire
Worked out for meπ€·ββοΈ
The thumbnail makes it look like an Amish Raiden from Mortal Kombat really wants me to install Arch.
reminds me of the good ole slackware days. i ran a domain off an old 486/dx2 in the 90βs. was a 3 letter domain too. why did 22yo me let that shit expire?!?
To be fair, I did exactly that the first time i went to an Indian restaurant and it was fine. The reported spiciness was why i went though and it was great.
Since archinstall is a thing, arch really isn't that hard to install or use, but these days I favor nixos for the reproducibility.
Whatβs architectural? I tried looking it up but didnβt find anything.
Arch is boring. It just works, has all the latest software, runs all the games, has the latest kernel...
My latest install is from 2019 I think....its exactly as fast as when I installed it, despite new versions of massive desktop environments like plasma and cosmic in this time, and hundred of new kernels and drivers.
Where is the excitement... Arch is like a rock in the sea. It doesnt change, it just is perfect the way it is.
:)
Arch is one of the most vanilla of Linuxes. Everyone wanted to run an opinionated distro. But what we needed was the opinions of developers and fewer opinions from people who think creating a distro is a sensible way to distribute art.
Arch - every package is just the software the original developer shipped, kept up to date.
"I have art work I want to share. I know. I'll make myself responsible for the reliability of a thousand people's operating systems. I hope my cooky ideas never come into conflict with that." <- Not who you want indirectly changing files on your system when you use the package manager.
I've used Arch on and off since around 2006 or so. I've used most distributions, including Gentoo, and in recent years things like Debian and atomic Fedora. I've settled for NixOS now though and I don't see it changing unless a better declarative OS/language comes along (Guix is a good contender with its Scheme).