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I don't get it (Jesus, What have I started ?)
Arch users have the most whacky, customized computers you can find. Meanwhile arch itself is a small distro with very little features out the box.
Ubuntu as a distro has tons of features out the box but ubuntu users generally just keep the default without adding or using any features.
A lot of arch users are kids fucking with thinkpads ricing up their systems and putting anime wallppapers while not doing anything serious.
Ubuntu is commonly used by researchers and hardware developers who don't really care about distro as long as it's linux. The amount of times I saw people use the entire distro with default gnome skin just to launch a terminal to run their black hole simulation, the crypto cracker or some centrifuge control script... I myself am neither but ubuntu has been my go to as well since I usually don't have time to screw with archinstall, so I just use ubuntu as good starting point and then tweak the internals as I go.
I feel like I'm the odd person out, using Arch like most people use Windows. I play games, do taxes, shop online, and do very minimal customizing, mostly just in KDE settings.
It's a shockingly stable system for how "bleeding edge" it is.
Wait, that's not what you're supposed to do?
No you're supposed to rice the hell out of your Arch install, put an anime girl wallpaper, some form of neofetch replacement (RIP), and post screenshots about it while wearing programmer socks and loudly telling people how good arch is and how much their distro sucks.
Then complain about how you broke it and can't fix it because you used
archinstallthereby skipping the setup and recovery lessons, and didn't read the wiki before updating.Yeah same, and I only run updates like once every two weeks.
Hmm. They have some surprisingly good documentation and user forums for a bunch of kids just fooling around. Very much unlike Ubuntu. I've learned years ago that Arch has good HOWTOs and solutions to common Linux problems that you won't easily find elsewhere, while you better avoid Ubuntu's forums unless you want to pick the one correct answer out of hundreds of posts guessing blindly at trivial questions. I have been using Debian for 25 years, so I don't have a horse in that race, it's just what I noticed.
Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.
People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.
Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it's users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.
EndeavorOS supremacy gang rise up
Cachy RAHHHH
Arch is fine, installing it is a good learning experience. After that endeavoros does what I need to and I just have to click next a couple times and get on with my day.
It is a good learning experience, I learned that I don't want to do that ever again, I just want to click next.
Or we're just old
Arch being hard to install and configure hasn't really been true since
archinstallmatured enough for regular use.But the vibes!
Especially not since EndeavorOS.
Endeavour is nice, I use it on my main PC because some of their util scripts are nice to have. Arch itself just is not much harder to install these days with the current installer.
I may be crazy but I find Arch a lot easier to use than Ubuntu.
Maybe because it is "zippier". IDK.
Half thought take that's potentially a hot take, don't cancel me! If pacman had better flag names this wouldn't be as big of a problem.