this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
80 points (96.5% liked)

Linux

14018 readers
452 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Ategon@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev
80
Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch? (ani.social)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by kiri@ani.social to c/linux@programming.dev
120 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

(No provocation)

I see these reasons:

  • newbie
  • lazy (don't wanna edit config files etc.)
  • unique features (like assistant/toolbox, some optimizations like in cachyos)
  • wanna check how different systems are set up (that's rather distrohopping)

Personally, I used manjaro i3 when I was beigginer and wanted to see how tiling WM should be configured (check out ranger config, for example). But after some time, I don't see reasons why not to just customize pure arch (same with debian and debian-based distros).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] lung@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Last time I installed Arch I just told Codex to build an ISO with my favorite stuff, flashed the physical media, and started using it. Now that's a one step setup

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you have it detailed somewhere? A blog or something. Would be interesting to see what it looks like.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Nah, but it's an sdcard with arm arch for raspberry pi. It runs wayland/gnome and has full fps to a little display I keep on my desk. I had Codex install various gnome shell plugins to give compiz-y window effects. I even had it set up zram (compressed ram) to optimize the machine. It's so much easier than when I had to actually read the wiki and type into some keyboard with my meat sticks. Now I can just tell my computer to fix itself and it does. I've had it configure and manage kubernetes clusters before, that works great too. Run LLMs as full yolo root my guys

[–] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 day ago

You can make your own image, read the Arch official manual