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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by kiri@ani.social to c/linux@programming.dev

(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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[-] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 2 points 10 hours ago

SO I CAN FEEL SUPREME!!!

And so I can configure EVERYTHING

But I dont use Arch right now.

Fedora has a nice "ecosystem" or more like unixsystem", too and its ready out of the box and has copr similar to aur which is integrated in the official dnf package manager and super-frequent updates including kernel ones AND last 1-2 kernels for backup..... it seems much better than Arch, right off the bat thought.

Gentoo, on the other hand... yes okay maybe a decent PC required... but.. it feels good

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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