Why do you use Arch

Ivan95 · 2025-01-11 13:05:17

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)

Lone_Wolf · 2025-01-11 13:26:05

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.

cryptearth · 2025-01-11 14:39:16

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

kgtuning · 2025-01-15 02:55:18

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

a7 · 2025-02-11 06:28:21

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.

kieran1701 · 2025-02-19 22:12:37

I use Arch for the rolling release paradigm, AUR, pacman, and most of all, the Wiki! I also really like the amount of control I have over my system while also being super easy to use. I've also just gotten so used to Arch that I can't imagine using anything else as my daily driver. For a few years, I distro hopped, but Arch just hits my wants and needs in just the right way.

The only other distro I use regularly is Debian for my web server because it's just so stable.

r0b0t · 2025-02-21 00:20:06

Haven't posted in awhile, how have you guys been? Feels weird having an account registered in 2009 and still sticking with the same distro, but not really if it's arch, time surely flies.

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The main reasons why I use Arch :
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- The Simplicity , to me is equal to freedom
- the degree of customization that Arch enables us to do
- Rolling release
- Stability (I don't know why some people say it's not and it breaks down, it has been rock solid for me, once I installed an Arch on a device, have never looked back since)
- The Wiki / Documentation
- The Security (also not all packages make it to the main repos)
- Package availability
- The Community

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Now the funny part,
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I was looking at some YT videos and was surprised at how many people are using Arch, we surely have become way popular, and I was genuinely surprised at how much the support for stuff has changed, like now you can even play most games on a Linux, that came to me as a shocker, not gonna lie, and we have become even an attractive distro for gamers.

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The Pro part
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I use Linux on a daily basis at a professional level for the enterprise, at work I had the need to automate (with packer) VM's based on different use cases, be it for having different authentication servers (radius, openldap, AD, keycloak), pentest VM's, servers, etc and everything was done with Arch.
Arch is simple, it's easy to debug, easy to touch and play with and the thing that I'm most grateful is that it taught me Linux with the famous manual installation process.

PS: I saw that now we have an automated installer? I'm a bit surprised but I understand the choice , it's good to expose Arch to a wider community and it's optional so the default install is still manual, that's good.

With all the above, I think the main reason that people stick to Arch (or Arch stick to us?) is that it's a true distribution that forces your ownership, and forces part of you on itself forming a more intimate connection (unlike anything else,with very few exceptions).

Last edited by r0b0t (2025-02-21 00:22:57)

mokuren · 2025-02-23 21:21:54

I have been using Arch for the last year+ after using Windows since I was a kid. I mainly switched because Windows was becoming more unusable, less customizable, more bloated and was bringing my laptop to a halt. And I've always wanted to use Linux! But, I'm sure we've all heard the Windows hate. I then chose Arch because, well, everyone talked about how hard it was and I shouldn't use it as my first distro. I didn't buy that at all, seeing it had an extensive wiki and detailed installation guides. Now I run a couple of servers that run arch too.

I use it as my daily driver too and I game on it, do art, basically everything I do on windows. Unfortunately, every once and a while I have to go back to Windows in order to use Hammer, the only program I haven't managed to get working.

Lone_Wolf · 2025-02-24 10:34:07

Is that valve hammer editor or the stuff from hammer software ?

If the latter maybe Ansible is worth looking at .

mokuren · 2025-02-25 20:49:13

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Is that valve hammer editor or the stuff from hammer software ?
If the latter maybe Ansible is worth looking at .

Unfortunately, the Valve Hammer editor. It does have a 3rd party program called Hammer++ that touts Linux support but I personally have not been able to get it running especially for Garry's Mod.

pvtvega · 2025-02-26 20:18:50

Last summer I installed Linux (pop!_OS) because I was fed up with Windows 11. I really enjoyed how easy package management was, and I loved how the system respected that I was the administrator and just got out of the way. No ads. No begging for updates. As I read more and more into Linux, I learned what Arch was, and I was fascinated at the idea of getting to "build" my own system starting from a skeleton and installing only the packages I want and need.

I learned a ton doing a manual Arch install, and I've never looked back. If you are willing to learn, and embrace a problem solving mindset, Arch is really fun. I also love the wiki and forum obviously.

Skurge · 2025-02-28 23:31:21

The straw that broke the yaks back was getting the "finish setting up windows" screen after an update on my gaming desktop, for a moment I thought I had lost everything and windows had reset. It then tried to sell me office 365 so in a rage i copied all my files and installed mint linux, (heard it was good for games), then ubuntu, fedora, manjaro, Garuda (Garuda was the best so far), then landed on pure Arch which so far has been the best hands down.

Nothing on it but what I put there, customise everything, and have all the games actually working. Definitely a convert.

simon · 2025-03-01 08:14:57

Arch is a good compromise between what two of the best distros out there (Slackware and Gentoo) do. It's not as simple and nowhere near as stable as Slackware, but it's much better documented (via the Wiki), much more up-to-date (than the stable Slackware release, at least), and much more popular (which matters because this makes it more likely to be considered by other projects, a plus for ease of compatibility etc.). It's nowhere near as customisable as Gentoo (Gentoo is more like a distro-crafting toolset than a specific distribution of software packages), but it's much easier and vastly quicker to install and maintain. There are times when I do miss Slackware's simplicity or Gentoo's configurability (and the fact that both of them can achieve great modern desktops without the un-UNIX-like ugliness of systemd)... but they both come with steep costs, by maximising those strengths to the extent that they do, while Arch manages to achieve a decent amount of their goodness, a lot more easily.

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