What's so special about Arch? Why does it get memed on so hard? People say it has bleeding edge packages but why is that so important? Is it better for gaming or something? What makes it different from Mint?
I think the memes come from people who install it, open up to a terminal, and immediately freak.But it's lightweight, and easily customizeable even by Linux standards. Also has a pretty sizeable and active community. I also find it works on more pieces of hardware than other distros seem to, likely due to how lightweight it is.
I have yet to experience how unstable Arch is. I had multiple occasions where Windows broke, yet not one where it happened to Arch yet.
>>107709451I think Arch is the best distro for gaming because of the latest and newest packages.>>107709490yeah, I haven't used my Arch desktop for about 5 or 6 months because I was only on my laptop, decided to turn on my Arch machine last saturday, did a -Syu and the update went smooth.
>>107709451Arch has over 15,000 packages.https://archlinux.org/packages/With another 103,000 packages in the AUR.https://aur.archlinux.org/packagesThe other distros don't have this.Why would I want less software?
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>>107709731There were so many packages i wanted in void linux but i couldn't get them due to tranny political reasons
>>107709753Lmao this reeks of seething
>>107709731What do those packages do?
>>107709762>What do those packages do?Ever package is software you can download and use for free with the Arch package manager, pacman.Then, you can keep all that software on your system up-to-date with the latest releases, because it is installed and managed with pacman.Need a Java IDE, you can install IntelliJ IDEA with pacman.Need an image editor? You can install gimp with pacman.Need a web browser? You can install chromium with pacman.Need to update to the latest everything quickly,>sudo pacman -Syuyour whole system is updated.
>>107709490>>107709514its a bit of a misconception because there is nothing inherently unstable about arch. arch being unstable is mostly a question of what your software stack consists of, and how *bleeding edge* that software is. for example, a person running x11 with something like xfce, using vim/emacs for text editing, and maybe having steam for gaming will be way less likely to break his system with infrequent updates than someone running the newest wayland shitware tiling WM with a bajillion unmaintained AUR packages.
>>107709807>Need to update to the latest everything quickly,never the case
>>107709808Getting the latest versions for all software IS inherently more unstable than sticking to the stable versions. Shit, I've had a kernel update break things due to a bug in the ext4 driver (thankfully I was able to just switch to using an older kernel version and it didn't cause any file corruption in my system, at least)So yes, Arch is inherently unstable.
>>107709731>Why would I want less software?What software do you actually use that isn't available on, say, Debian?
>>107709451it gets shilled hard by people who don't know much about linux or know nothing about linuxsetting up arch is the equivalent of manually running a bunch of shell commands intead of just putting them in a script and executing the scriptyou're not a hacker because you followed the wiki 100% and manually typed in everything that every other linux distro's installer would have done automatically
>>107709490I had two occasions when CachyOS broke (but it was easy to fix):1. One day I've upgraded Mesa and DE was refusing to load. Turns out I had regular mirrors that weren't up to date to I've updated mesa from Cachy repos that was dependent on llvm 18 but my regular arch mirrors were still shipping llvm 17. After rating mirrors and upgrading from tty issue was gone2. Second time it was with some zen5 and rdseed fuckery when I've updated kernel to 6.18 and it disabled rdseed for my CPU so again I've been locked out of DE since SDDM was coredumping with error "Incompatible CPU" lmao
>>107709909>What software do you actually use that isn't available on, say, Debian?Maybe you like visual studio code?https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/code/That's not available on Debian, muh licensing blah blah blah.Maybe you like brave browser?https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave-binOnce again, seething kvetching trannies on Debian can't stand brave and refuse to have it.
>>107709901Software authors release bugs anon, that's not Arch's fault. And you're just as screwed not updating due to lack of security patching as you are updating to latest. The incompetent jeet will get you either way.
>>107710026On real distros backports exist for that reason.
>>107710160lol, I'm on the latest version all patched up while you're standing around with your dick hanging out waiting for a backport
>>107710184*crashes*
>>107710026The chances of me getting screwed due to a security fix that hasn't been ported yet are at least an order of magnitude lower than the chances of you getting screwed due to a bug in new update.
