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Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?
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I use Ubuntu professionally and Arch at home
Anything that's not Windows is my preference.
I love arch because I know what's in it and how to fix it and what to expect, the community is mostly very nice and open to help
AUR is great and using pacman feels lovely
I also care about learning and understanding the system I'm using beyond just using a GUI that does everything for me
Ubuntu is not bad it's probably one of the most used distros by far
Linux motto is: Use what you like and customize it how you like because there is no company forcing you to do things their way
IBM would like to do have a few words.