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    [–] skyin7@feddit.de 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    Why would one unuse Arch btw?

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 127 points 1 year 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.

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

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

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    [–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] drmoose@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year 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 :|

    [–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

    [–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 12 points 1 year 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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    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago

    Look at the community where it was posted.

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    [–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

    [–] BetterDev@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Norgur@fedia.io 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    /s

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    I used to run Arch, btw

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 41 points 1 year 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. )

    [–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 year 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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    [–] phorq@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

    [–] Neon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] mkuznetsoff@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

    Became straight

    [–] sayitghoul@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year 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.

    [–] Communist@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

    [–] pixeltree@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

    Oracle Linux exists

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    [–] tubaruco@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year 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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    [–] varnia@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (13 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

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (54 children)

    Arch is good, no doubt πŸ‘.

    Void is better 😁.

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    [–] samus12345@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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    [–] MyNamesNotRobert 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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

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    [–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

    artix my beloved

    [–] locke@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago
    [–] spiderwort@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know a guy who looks like that.

    He's good at JavaScript.

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    [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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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    [–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

    [–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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