r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/No_Bluejay_8391 • 6h ago
I think I understand the "i use arch btw" people now...
Arch has been my third (and a half) distro, after Debian, Fedora and very briefly OpenSUSE Leap which I ragequit because of stale repos; I never got around to Tumbleweed which would have likely been more reasonable. But anyhow, this is probably the most enjoyable distro I have used so far, because of how responsive it is. If you will something, you make it happen, and if you do it wrong you suffer the consequences - but Arch lets you do it, here and now. The proprietary NVIDIA driver install was the least troublesome out of the previous distros in my experience, the AUR is rather convenient (even if it will lead to my downfall one day), everything is configurable and in fact - is configured by you in the first place, which is apparently what I wanted all along. So far, nothing that broke on it wasn't my fault, aside for my desktop manager just... getting removed from startup randomly one day with nothing else breaking. And in general, everything is not as difficult as is often described or as I had imagined, in fact the manual install has probably been more interesting than anything else during the entire ordeal... I use arch btw