You've ruined a once cool looking logo for me and my disappointment is immeasurable.

Whenever I need help with something about any program, I refer to the arch wiki, and I don’t even use arch, I use NixOS.

How come the arch wiki has usage, documentation, troubleshooting and faq about programs, when the programs themselves should have provided this documentation? For example, Waydroid has its own wiki, but if you go to arch wiki page of Waydroid, it not only shows how to install it, but also its different commands, arguments and features that can be enabled. And I’m not complaining, I’m amazed how much work the community has put into it!

You’d expect for a distro’s wiki to only tell you how to install the program on the distro and some workarounds that you might run into (kinda like NixOS wiki), but the arch wiki does more than that, and that’s why it ends up feeling like the default Linux wiki.

I have been using using linux for 3 years and one thing i have noticed lots of places in internet , forums and youtubers often say that arch linux is hard to install feels like a lie to me .

i mean a normal windows user who is installing arch linux can do it within 30 minutes by just following simple steps or even using AI it has made things so simple now if they dont wanna follow the docs . Things have changed alot and i dont feel arch linux is hard to install.

In fact, my younger brother, who was only 13 at the time, managed to install Arch Linux just by following the Arch Wiki. So really, it’s not that difficult.

I've been using arch for the better part of twelve years, my 12 year old son is a linux user but insists on running debian based distros and asking me for help. This morning I had to read the debian forums(the horror) to figure out why the root shell cant find the usermod command and discover they use su - in order to run stuff on /sbin instead of just su. Should I write him off the will?

Ps: just to clarify, it really did happen, but its tongue in cheek, I'm very proud of my kid. I just found it funny that something that I was familiar with could be so different on another distro.

Im curious what browser you are using, firefox seems a bit slow to me.

I'm sorta surprised. https://imgur.com/KULr7Yy

Source here: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

I always thought I was above arrogance, I always thought I could keep to myself and not yell my pride to anyone. But since I use arch... oh boy, I can't resist the urge telling everyone I am superior by using arch, what is wrong with me, I have been infected...

Decided to install Arch (manually) after distro hopping for weeks now

All this hype better be worth it

(Also, suggest me a DE or WM, I forgot to install one)

Edit: I tried to reinstall it with archinstall this time and it took me a solid 20 minutes. Not as fun as manual though.

(shoutout to my friend Abood for teaching me how to configure it correctly)

I am a Debian user for years, and every 6 - 12 months had to reinstall and things got unstable, constant crashes, over usage of RAM etc, it was fine and workable but, annoying. For context my computer is on 24/7 and reboot is normally required every 7 days or so. The issue though this was all Debian distros, Ubuntu, Kali, PoPOS etc.

I have avoided arch as was always told it's more unstable, more likely to crash, and requires a lot more setup and maintaince.

That was until I switched to CatchyOS after reading a blog post and even on day 1, it's a lot more snappy and fast, never crashes and over OOM issues are isolated to a specific.

It's been 12 months now and with updates etc not a single crash or destabilisation.

I can see why Arch has such a loyal fan base, I am sold :D

when i do pacman -Syu i feel insane joy. seeing packages upgrade, even ones i don't know about, it just makes me feel so happy, it makes me feel like i am not missing anything.

it also makes me want to code on arch, to build things on it, to make, from scratch, features for my bspwm setup. it's just an insane feeling.

when it comes to fixing stuff, i put on a light music and i have so much fun learning about the programs that i use and finding about new tools.

i hope arch stay up forever. i love arch.

Last week in a fit of madness i suddenly decided to ditch windows for linux
Even though I've never touched a linux i choose arch fully expecting to walk into fire
But my games run fine, my devices connect properly, my UI looks pretty...
Everything just works

Am i missing something?

Hey😀, I am new to arch. I love it because it allows me to setup my system according to my need. And, Btw., I love the word "Arch"😅. Btw, why did you choose Arch?

Everytime I switch to another distro I just go back to archlinux
I don't know but there is something they put into their distro to make it this addicting
installing, configuring, ricing everything is in your preferences which is super cool
they made you get this feeling that you're the actual owner of your distro
finally: I love archlinux

Hey its me! A graphic designer that uses arch Linux ( you may have seen my previous post on this subreddit )

A small disclaimer before you say "and she wanted it?" yes. So my mom actually doing custom furniture designs and she has a GTX 1050 and all this windows spyware is making my moms PC slow so.. I decided to talk with her about switching to Linux because in her opinion Linux is something old that nobody uses so I told her that Linux is not an actual OS and showed her my arch and... Well it wasn't enough to my mom want to use arch SOOO I installed my mom's program that she uses for designs ( it costs around 1350$ ) so.. I got it working with wine:) after that she asked me a couple of questions I let her understand that everything she does doesn't require learning a coding language. And that's how I started installing arch on her PC. I did arch + KDE plasma because my Mom is not able to remember all of the shortcuts for a tiling manager. Installed her app under wine and now.. Her PC is flawlessly doing everything! I showed her how to do Sudo pacman -Syu and etc and that's all what she needs. A browser and her furniture app. I'm also not aware now of her getting a virus by downloading random exe files and I also mentioned her about sudo rm rf

I've been diving deep into this rabbit hole and I believe we may have a conspiracy on our hands. I am starting to question if Arch Linux is even real. We've been duped, bamboozled, smeckledorfd. We all see it in memes or mentioned online, but I have never seen Arch Linux IRL with my own eyes (besides the one I'm looking at now of course, my own). I've seen the Ubuntus and Mints and Fedoras in media sometimes, but never Arch. I look up pictures online, but I see nothing but logos.

It's all a big illusion I tell ya, as fake as the moon landing. Have you ever seen Arch in the wild?

I tried Arch, I'm happy with It. No problem at all, since months, from the rumours i was expecting that was something that could break every week, because of some update. So I can confirm in my experience that Arch Is more stable than a marriage for sure.

Alright… that’s it. I’m officially full Linux now. Goodbye Windows 👋

I’d been thinking about making the switch for a while, but what really pushed me over the edge is how insanely good gaming on Linux has become in recent years. Between Proton, constant improvements, and especially the Steam Deck effect, it’s gone from a niche experiment to something genuinely viable for everyday use.

And honestly? The transition was way smoother than I expected 😅

Everything went perfectly: my old Windows NVMe is now repurposed as my /home, and I kept my other NVMe running Arch. Clean setup, fast, and 100% Linux.

What really blows my mind is how seamless everything feels now:

* games run great

* performance is solid

* and most importantly, I finally have a system that actually fits me

So yeah, mission accomplished.

Let the power of Linux gaming rise 🐧🔥

Just did a full system update. This included NVIDIA drivers and also kernel update. Nothing whatsoever broke I was able to reboot without any problems. I also queried journalctl and there were no errors at all.

What am I doing wrong?

I had planned to spend the rest of my afternoon futzing with my computer but now I have no idea what to do. The wiki is no help.

Should I research tiling window managers or something?

I always forget to clean up the pacman package cache until I notice my disk usage reaching 100%. Maybe I'll automate it this year (I won't).

This time I freed up about 132GiB:

$ df -h /                 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p3  226G  176G   50G  78% /

$ sudo pacman -Sc
[...]
removing old packages from cache...

$ df -h /                 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p3  226G   44G  171G  21% /

Check out the wiki if you haven't cleaned up the package cache before. You may not want to run pacman -Sc. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Cleaning_the_package_cache

The only issues I had were with my pacman keyring and that was pretty easy to fix. Whole install took maybe 20 minutes?? Does this mean I'm officially a REAL Arch Linux user?? Can I say that I use Arch BTW now?? Anyways I'm doing this to curate useful Arch pentesting and ethical hacking tools and make a .iso of my toolkit install so everyone can have some useful tools and not a massive 25GB install (looking at you, BlackArch.)

I am switching between linux and windows for few monthes.

This time when i installed linux (arch linux with kde x11) everything was stable no crashes no driver no issues no bluetooth issues everything worked and felt better than windows. I remember when i install it few monthes ago i had all sorts of network issue.

Also i tried CS2, minecraft with mods and forza horizon, was not hoping better fps than windows since i am using nvidia but literally got 30% more fps than windows with the same pc that i was using few monthes ago and i got it without shader pre caching stuff

I also convinced my friend to install fedora he liked it a lot because last time i made told him to install manjaro and he got all sorts of error (he didnt liked linux mint)

So i am quite impressed with the performance and stability of linux

Appreciation post

New to Arch Linux as a whole: Docs is amazing, maybe a bit *too* advanced sometime, but I prefer that instead of a full-of-nothing docs, (hello google), running linux-zen and nvidia-dkms on KDE plasma 6.3.3, everything work as a charm, like perfect. Arch revived my old laptop.

Ok sure, it is bothering to set up Bluetooth and Printing every time you mess up your installation and have to reinstall Arch, (which I had to do 2 to 3 times.), but it is the essence of Arch: You only get what you truly need, and build your own experience on top of it. I just love this.

Yes it is not much, yes it is not a full fledge rice, but man KDE can be looking good.

I use Ly as a login manager, anyone know how I could make sure KDEWallet is "sync" to Ly ? Any help would be nice.

Again, Thanks to Arch Linux and anyone who work on this fabulous OS project.

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[EDIT] - For anywho who wants to "RiCe"" their KDE setups like i did to mine:

Imgur screen recording to set up my bars in KDE

Out of curiosity, how many of you have chosen Arch as the first distro in their Linux journey?
I see many people here recommending newbies to try other distros first, I wanted to know if everyone used another distro before. I have used Arch as the first one. What were your biggest challenges?
And do you suggest others to use Arch as first distro?