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Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch? (ani.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 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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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I started out with Ubuntu and went straight to Arch. I knew absolutely nothing. I followed the installation guide to a T, and it worked. I didn't understand anything I did. Then I installed it again, in a new computer. I understood a lot more the second time.

You don't need to know what you're doing in order to succeed here. There's a lot of handholding and learning as you go. 🙂

[-] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago

That’s exactly my experience. Now I understand most things I do, and I smile at this ‘installing Arch is difficult.’ No, it’s not. I can install it without any help from the wiki, by memory. As I understand what I’m doing and why. It’s not the difficult part. The difficult part is to make it yours.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I still can't install from memory 😆, even if I understand every step now. The reason is quite simple for me: I install it so rarely because it's so stable. I only ever install it on new hardware. Every computer I have has basically only seen a single Arch install. 👌

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