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Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch? (ani.social)
submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by kiri@ani.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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(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).

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean, if I were to admin a fleet of computers or something like that, I would definitely not run Arch on those. 😅

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

LOL. Same.

Every now and then I find a comment where someone who clearly knows what they’re doing is deploying an Arch server in a work setting. Feeling confident with that decision takes something I don’t have. Maybe it’s experience, knowledge or something.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

I believe there are docker images for Arch? But those probably have some form of reproducibility, I should hope. Since you can't install specific versions of packages declaratively with pacman unless you have physical access to the actual package file, I would not use it for a server. Maybe coupled with Guix or something? I dunno.

Maybe they need an environment with very up-to-date packages, or something along that vein. 🤔