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Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch? (ani.social)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by kiri@ani.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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(No provocation)

I see these reasons:

  • newbie
  • lazy (don't wanna edit config files etc.)
  • unique features (like assistant/toolbox, some optimizations like in cachyos)
  • wanna check how different systems are set up (that's rather distrohopping)

Personally, I used manjaro i3 when I was beigginer and wanted to see how tiling WM should be configured (check out ranger config, for example). But after some time, I don't see reasons why not to just customize pure arch (same with debian and debian-based distros).

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 17 points 20 hours ago

I’ve spent far too much of my life configuring computers. I want to do as little configuring as possible. Also, I’d heard that Cachy had custom kernel changes that made pretty much any game run better.

Games run phenomenally, not sure why I’d go try anything else. (Bazzite, mint, zorin did not work with my setup)

[-] Seppo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago

Same. I worked with Linux professionally for 15+ years but my main battle station runs Bazzite, and home server runs unraid. Pretty much as plug-and-play as you can get. Laptop however is on NixOS so that I can swap configs depending on usecase.

[-] SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

FWIW I tried catchyOS as a comparison to Bazzite and I prefer bazzite.

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