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#51 2025-01-11 13:05:17

Ivan95
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From: Russia, Rostov-on-Don
Registered: 2024-11-24
Posts: 15

Re: Why do you use Arch

I'm going to recreate my original post in this topic because to me it has disappeared (weird), but anyways like i have said in the original, because i perfer Arch Linux over anything else so much so i made a .sh script for that
It has 6 options
they are:
1. Intro
2. Customizable Distro
3. Amazing Community
4. Easy to install with pacman/flatpak
5. AUR Information and how to install
6. Virtual Machine Compat.

You actually need to choose these options to get them:
The Project is here: GitHub repo (Suggested Idea)

I hope it doesn't disappear so i can show reasons Arch is better than other distro choices

Last edited by Ivan95 (2025-01-11 18:25:29)

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#52 2025-01-11 13:26:05

Lone_Wolf
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From: Netherlands, Europe
Registered: 2005-10-04
Posts: 13,301

Re: Why do you use Arch

Moderator note

One of my colleagues moved your earlier post to a moderator-only area of the forum because it looked like an advertisement and/or spam .

I looked at the script and with your explanation I'm ok with this post.


Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

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#53 2025-01-11 14:39:16

cryptearth
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Registered: 2024-02-03
Posts: 1,257

Re: Why do you use Arch

Ivan95 wrote:

I'm going to recreate my original post in this topic because to me it has disappeared (weird)

as it was me who has reported your original post: please link to a proper repo like github or similar instead of just some random one-click hoster

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#54 2025-01-15 02:55:18

kgtuning
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From: New Hampshire
Registered: 2015-09-30
Posts: 51

Re: Why do you use Arch

I use arch because i enjoy it. I can build an OS exactly the way I like it.

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#55 2025-02-11 06:28:21

a7
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Registered: 2012-04-01
Posts: 27

Re: Why do you use Arch

A long time ago I posted why I switched to Arch from Gentoo and its gone so I'll leave a love letter here.

Gentoo was my true first Linux experience, I had briefly installed RedHat on an old machine but it didn't take. One night I was given a Gentoo foldout and it took, it taught me so much that I learned to appreciate the operating system from within again. I had already been familiar with DOS and some BASIC programming from before but I ended up as a Windows *user* not an *administrator*. Gentoo taught me to understand how Linux and GNU worked together, where they came from and that there were in fact such things as file systems!

But over the years, time became more valuable to me and I'd broken and fixed Gentoo in every way you could imagine.  I needed a no-thought default.  Arch filled that spot perfectly as a base but without compiling every update, where I could keep rolling and not be removed from the what and why of the incoming updates.

-- Perfectly where I like to be.

Professionally I found myself learning to work with Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL flavors afterwards and the peculiar ways they force you to work.  That time has only strengthened my love and appreciation of a system that is opinionated only just enough to discourage analysis paralysis. I think I made the jump when Arch adopted SystemD in that old war - I can't recall the exact timeline but I was onboard and seeing Arch take a stance on it was a signal that got my attention.

I am a philistine however, I work from Windows as a desktop mostly but I'm *IN* headless Arch to do my work, one desktop and dozens of headless servers.  The Linux desktop experience has historically been abysmal, though I should dedicate more time to it again and I'm actually very happy in the command line because the system is in my head.  (Windows not so much, just my pane of glass so to speak)

That said, my old letter mentioned that as long as I'm running ~x86 then Arch will be home. I see now with the ports RFC, Arch is positioning itself to expand and aarch64(arm64) is a real future for our market.  So I've dusted off my old handle to start giving back and I hope to help see Arch on arm and risc along with x86_64.


- my nerd tuple is arch/systemd/ext4/nano/go/lurk

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