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This person hasn’t used Arch since 2011 but at least it hasn’t hindered their self superiority.
I thought it was a funny joke
Mean spiritedness and superiority aside, it’s also just very trite and hackneyed. Spirit not aside, it doesn’t even read like a joke, just someone desperate to feel superior and projecting their insecurities.
Yes, but I read it as satire.
In this thread: IT nerds with no sense of humor.
Granted, this probably hasn’t been reality for like… A decade, but it’s pretty funny
I’ve been using Arch since I decided to go full-time Linux a year ago, and it’s really not that much work compared to when I tested out Fedora. I run pacman -Syu when I remember to, about twice a week. I update the occasional packages on the AUR once a week. I’ve never had a single broken dependency. Never had to fix graphics drivers (AMD on Wayland, so I can’t say the same about NVIDIA). I don’t even look at the wiki for 99% of the packages I’ve installed. This is definitely made by someone who hasn’t used an Arch-based distro for more than a day.
I use Mint. I don’t do anything to it. I don’t remember when I installed it, it’s been so long. It just keeps updating.
I’m probably doing it wrong. I don’t know what pacman is.
I’ve been running CachyOS for a couple years, had a similar experience. There was one time in all of that where something actually broke, and I had to look up how to use my snapshots that I set up a year before and forgot about. That’s been it. Was running Mint before that, not too different (aside from newer versions of apps in the repository, which is why I switched).
I started with Omarchy last March, because I was affraid Arch was too much, but it sounded so nice. So I started with Omarchy,because it was easy to start with. Now I’ve seen that it is not actually that scary, I might switch to Arch and not use the dhh distro. I might reuse some config files though.
Jesus fuckin’ Christ… FWIW Arch is my daily driver and all I had to do to use it was install programs I wanted (I’m familiar with the terminal so I prefer yay commands to a GUI, plus I like to consciously know what changes on my machine, and GUIs often come with recommendation advertising)
And things that I didn’t do on Windows but is unique to my use case was:
- switch DE to one that can better support my specific desire of replicating Wallpaper Engine with Hidamari;
- Install openrazer-driver for (again) my specific desire of controlling my existing Razer hw with Polychromatic;
- Fiddle with xone and xpad-noone so my Xbox controllers work via their respective dongles;
- occasionally write .desktop files for the programs I wanted that only came as an .appimage
- shop around for my preferred libre Office suite
My experience with Ubuntu and Debian have been exactly the same
Nowadays with Arch for the steam deck it’s an real tamagotchi. It’s always a surprise if your games run after upgrade. /s
Haven’t used Arch (steam OS doesn’t really count) but Fedora for a long time. It is great.
I moved to Debian because life circumstances changed and my OS moved from a hobby to a tool.
In no way should anyone draw a feeling of superiority, or inferiority, from this. Different distro for different use cases.
What’s the point of posting this crap here? It’s not funny, it’s hateful and misinformed.
