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Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch? (ani.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Definitely, fully agree. Gentoo I can imagine is more maintenance than Arch, even. At least a lot more waiting around. ๐Ÿ˜… But maybe that's a misconception, too!

But yeah, definitely use whatever you like. I just want to clear up the misconception that Arch is heavy on maintenance. It most definitely is not, unless you want it to be.

[-] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

I originally switched to Gentoo when I got my first AMD64 workstation. Gentoo was the only distro with full support and optimization for a little while.

a lot more waiting around

For a big build I would kick it off at bed time :)

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ah, neat. I assume it had early support since you compile the packages yourself?

And tell me if you will: did it ever occur that a build had failed when you woke up? ๐Ÿ˜… Or maybe builds didn't really fail? How common was that?

[-] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Builds failing was pretty rare for me but I didn't customize the compile options much beyond AMD64 optimizations.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I see, thanks Al!

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