Indeed

Why would one unuse Arch btw?

Arch is only the larval stage. When a Linuxite consumes enough CLI, they metamorphose into one of two adult forms: a Void user, or a NixOS user. As these two adult forms are incompatible, this is a rare case of species divergence within a life cycle. Even more oddly, like the axolotl, many Arch users never leave the larval stage, and continue living comfortably in their ecological niche.
- Wow, this is so well explained, I'm making it my personal copypasta!
- Retired form of Linuxite is called Gentoo user
- If NixOS and Void are the adult form then what is the form of FreeBSD and OpenBSD? Old form?
- Daamn, I'm a pupa (Arch -> Debian + Nix)
Switching to nixos?
- As someone who switched to nixos - eh. So much hacking to make dev stuff work really kills the magic that nixos is supposed to be :|
- The whole point is the setup 😒.
Look at the community where it was posted.
they have probably switched to gentoo
- I don't see the programmer socks in the picture, did I miss them?
- Look at the subreddit. It's implied they switched to void.
Learning by doing.

I think with inflation a picture is only worth 700 words.

S6E4 Game Changers dropped literally yesterday and you wasted no time recycling the joke
- I waited for this comment to be relevant for the entirety of the episode. As I closed it, I heard the word "inflation" and I had to bring the video back up to finally understand what you meant by this lmao
- Well it's a good thing this person mentioned it. I have never heard of whatever game changers is. I would have never heard it otherwise.
Nah the pic is worth 2500 words and the worth of a word decreased to the point where everyone has pictures.
That's a pretty detailed prompt.

Friendship ended with Arch. Now Void is my best friend!

Yeah, I don't think everyone got that from the pic 😂.
- That space where the arch sticker was

We get it, you used arch. You don’t need to write a thousand words telling us.

But the Wiki is soooo nice! And have you seen AUR!
/s
- The AUR is legitimately the biggest thing keeping me on Endeavor

I used to run Arch, btw

I use mint, btw.

(…Not really but it fits the joke the best. I have used it and it’s an excellent distro whether you are a beginner or just want something stable and full featured. )

Mint is such a pragmatic distro. Honestly I admire people who are just happy with their Mint and don't feel the need to distro hop to ever more esoteric package ecosystems just to feel alive
- The only reason I stopped using mint is some of the programs didn't exist or were outdated. I'm about to settle at NixOS.
  Edit: I ended up going back to my intermediary between mint and nix: Arch Linux
I use Debian everywhere but if I need a Live Linux environment to recover files, clone a drive, wipe a drive, or really anything else I use ventoy and a Linux mint iso.
- I work in a PC repair shop (mostly Windows stuff) and I do the same with Ventoy and Mint. I especially like it for gParted but have a variety of things I use on it.

Ugh ex Star Trek nerds, am I right guys? /s

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/70aa7a8c-6237-405e-928c-ad28732967e2.png
I'm a Captain, BTW.
- Good one. Took me second. Just a second though.
Hahahah 🤣🤣🤣... good one 🤣.

Yeah, it's obvious a jealous Manjaro user stole that dude's sticker...

Edit: almost forgot... I use arch btw...

I use NixOS btw
- No no, that’s ours, find your own

I don't see what the problem is with Arch Linux and why it gets so much flak. I am not a Linux expert by any measure, but I use EndeavourOS and find it really use to use (don't ask me to install from scratch). Its extremely stable and I like the fact that it gets updated constantly.

The only other distro I really liked is MX Linux. My main gripe was that I don't want to reinstall every so many years. I want to set up an OS and just use it without worrying about it being a temporary thing. But maybe I'll change my mind in the future.

I'm not for or against any distro really, maybe except Ubuntu and its bloat. I just use what best suits me, which is the whole point of all the different distros.

Manjaro is truly the worst distro of all time and probably helps give arch a bad name
- Oracle Linux exists
- I use Manjaro, btw.
- I had like 2 issues that took literal minutes to fix over the years I ran Manjaro, I know there were some silly misconfigurations years ago but I never paid much attention then the hate and it ran all my stuff just fine. 🤷‍♂️
  Built a new rig a few weeks ago and decided to check out EndeavorOS, but would have stuck with that Manjaro install for a while if I hadn't.
i think its just people taking the "i use arch btw" meme too seriously and thinking its bad to show or even use it all
I don't think this is an "Arch is bad" post, but rather a "Void is good post". I think the sticker is remove because it's not relevant to them anymore.
Its extremely stable
This is why people make fun of arch users
Look at the sub in which this is posted 😉. That was the joke 😉.

Became straight

I've used arch on one machine now, am a total noob to it, and I really like it. I see what people are raving about and I see no reason to shit on it. I don't really care if 6 years ago some people were annoying about it

Arch is good, no doubt 👍.
Void is better 😁.
- How?
What's so good about it?
- The existence of ArchWiki and the Arch User Respository (AUR). And rolling releases, if that’s your thing.
- Basically just the fact that it's very lightweight, I was able to install it on an rpi5 (not officially supported), install only what I needed, and was able to resolve all the issues I had for my niche use-case.
  There is a quite noticeable difference in how snappy it feels versus the official rpi OS. Arch runs way zippier on it. Those devices are a little limited hardware-wise so it makes a big difference in what it feels like to use that system.
  I also like knowing that the updates flowing in so quickly, I get the latest fixes and new features before I would on any of the other distros I've used. I have always been a little scared of rolling releases but over the last couple months I haven't seen any breakages yet so fingers crossed! A lot of people have tried to tell me rolling release can be solid, but I was skeptical.
- It fits me
It's a bit tounge in cheek, nobody actually got mad at the arch namedropping. More like "I'm a platinum level player in LoL". Lol.
- I always got the impression that it was more of an "Oh god one of THESE insufferable people". I'm just saying from my experience -- they have a point. Arch is pretty nice.
- Damn you're calling me out. It's emerald now.
- Lel

Tips Fedora.

m'lady!

I couldn't figure out how to make the wifi on my Debian machine reliable so I replaced the default wifi manager front-end and backend with iwctl, the same thing Arch uses by default. It seems to be working but now I have an unholy abomination of Debian spliced with Arch DNA.

Every distro is an unholy abomination made by plugging the maintainers' favorite parts together
A simple fix is to replace the rest of Debian with Arch.
Lol, that's normal in Arch, Void, Gentoo, LFS.
Almost every proprietery software there is out there has only Debian/Ubuntu packages, yet we run them in Arch, Void, Gentoo... as long as the dependencies are there, it doesn't matter what distro you run the software on.
It's perfectly fine to use different ways to do things in Debian, just don't mix incompatible repos.
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#IWCtl

I don't use Arch, btw

No longer* xD

I was asked what I think of the distro "Arch btw" since everyone recommends it. Gold.

artix my beloved

!btw

I know a guy who looks like that.

He's good at JavaScript.

that's the best subtle insult i've ever heard wow
- I didn't really mean it that way. But subconsciously, ya, maybe.
  My friend has that look. Like half-hobbit. And ya, he's a wizard too.

What dist to you use btw?

I use BTW btw
- Is that the one from the Korean boy band?
NixOS, it has a lot of the same pain points as Arch, even steeper learning curve for installation and configuration. And lose support for even more software titles.
If it's not 1995 slackware difficult I don't want it.
- True story. SlackWare was why I considered Debian in 1998. Briefly.

I'm going to use Debian btw Edit: nvm wifi not working, NixOS it is

Arch is a pain to setup BTW. It's worth it, though you'd be better using something like the installer for cachyOS to get the same experience

I'm partial to Endeavor OS personally. It's basically just Arch without the bullshit of setting it up.
- All my friends with endeavour are clueless when their system eventually breaks because they haven't done the manual install and so they haven't read the wiki and they have no idea how to actually repair their system
It's absolutely not. Use archinstall. The hardest part is preparing for breakages when you update.
- Honestly, I've done it so often, it runs automatically. The config stuff I have for years and years, I think I haven't change shit for ever. Runs.

Seem like im one of the few who went from Arch to Fedora

You aren't the only one! Living on the bleeding edge did have its benefits, but I'll take the reliability of Fedora over dealing with random Arch issues any day (it helps that Fedora still keeps its packages very up to date so you don't miss much). Arch did teach me a lot so I still appreciate it, and they do have the best wiki!

Meanwhile still compiling Gentoo.

Just kidding, already done.

For anyone interested, those are stickers from there: https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers and they cost 1$ with free shipping.
\ Great to show Linux swag.

No Void 😔.

I'm happy to say "i use arch btw" (actually CachyOS but without most of the weird cachyos-stuff but still using their v3 repositories) for about two weeks now. It's pretty great so far, no breakages or anything, feels very responsive and updates are much quicker to do, too, because pacman works really fast.

Alongside with Debian Sid and flakified NixOS of course...

I use Manjaro btw

Ugly, apt-induced breakup I suppose? :P

no way anyone would voluntarily use apt after using pacman
- well, for 90% of users it makes literally no difference whatsoever. It's just the command you have to type in so you can get new software.
- As someone who used to use Arch a decade ago: I still use pacman for devkitpro at least, and I do miss how fast its parallel downloads get, but the tool I use to manage packages is far from the most important difference between distros to me, even if you assume not needing AUR.
- I unironically prefer apt over pacman, simply because my monkeybrain got addicted to running pacman -S (that was how to update, right?) and I dropped in productivity. apt is just "nah fam, there's nothing new for you" most days, which gives me the quiet time I want and need.
  I ran Manjaro BTW. It was nice while it lasted, but Debian is my new friend now.
Look at the sub 😉. They switched to xbps 😁.

Got removed

She learned NixOS

Look at the sub 😉.
- I saw you post that a couple of times and didn't realize you meant the sub within the picture, I was trying to find the significance of this being posted in linuxmemes lol