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So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

I’m a little bit underwhelmed, I thought that based off the fact so many people seem to make using this distro their personality I expected… well, more I guess?

Once the basic stuff is set-up, like wifi, a few basic packages, a desktop environment/window manager, and a bit of desktop environment and terminal customisation, then that’s it. Nothing special, just a Linux distribution with less default programs and occasionally having to look up how to install a hardware driver or something if you need to use bluetooth for the first time or something like that.

Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

What exactly is it that people obsess over? The desktop environment and terminal customisation? Setting up NetworkManager with nmcli? Using Vim to edit a .conf file?

Maragato ,
@Maragato@lemmy.world avatar

Most of the time it is achieved with the phrase: “I use Arch, btw”. 😉

nichtburningturtle ,
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

Also wearing unix socks might help

EDIT: A more complete guide. https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/3d0ce385-8cf2-4dd3-b5f5-950100cf21ba.webp

30p87 ,

Also, Blåhajar for better pics

SentientFishbowl OP ,

In a way this post is just long-form “I use Arch, btw” 🤯

lemmyvore ,

Don’t forget shitting on Arch-derived distros.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

We save that for Manjaro, endeavor and the others are pretty cool

lemmyvore ,

Yeah I know. Derivate distros are cool only if they don’t stray too far from Arch. How dare a distro do something different.

Keep it up, it’s a super cool look (and healthy) for a distro to hate on its own downstream.

Kanda ,

Use it as your daily driver and get really comfortable with it. After this, complain loudly when you see someone doing anything in a different way. Then say “I use Arch btw”

Presi300 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a linux distro, just like all other linux distros… Idk what to tell ya

sovietknuckles ,
@sovietknuckles@hexbear.net avatar

Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

Also, as others have said, AUR and PKGBUILDs

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

You have reached the pinnacle of Linux, every other distro you try from now on will seem bland. 🧗🏼

nek0d3r ,
@nek0d3r@lemmy.world avatar

That’s basically it. Some Arch users are genuinely just picky about what they want on their system and desire to make their setup as minimal as possible. However, a lot of people who make it their personality just get a superiority complex over having something that’s less accessible to the average user.

chevy9294 ,

I’m using Arch because you start with nothing and you can make any system you want. I have disk encryption, btrfs as a filesystem, secure boot with my own custom keys, I’m running self-build kernel, I’m using apparmor and I can use any program from AUR, etc. Thats my personality. Things that you can’t see but are important to me.

On other distros some of these things would be very hard to do. Especially without Arch Wiki.

Bitrot ,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Outside of the meme, the only people who make it their personality are generally younger and less experienced users who feel extremely empowered and proud by doing anything useful on the command line. Not like those users on Ubuntu (which they just switched from) who install stuff from a store like losers, nuh uh.

Before Arch you had the same type of people on Gentoo feeling superior because of use flags and watching hours of compiler output, after switching from Mandrake.

Auzy ,

You already announced you use Arch… So you’re doing good

Frederic ,

Yes

GustavoM ,
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Am I missing something?

Yep. You got meme’d – Arch is a distro like any other.

h_ramus ,

Didn’t bother going through the hoops and installed EndeavourOS which is arch-based with some additional default applications.

For me, the best thing of Arch isn’t the distribution but the Arch wiki. An impressive piece of documentation.

SentientFishbowl OP ,

Arch wiki is superb, couldn’t have installed or configured Arch without it.

Aurenkin ,

And the Arch User Repository is really handy when you need some more users.

lord_ryvan ,

That’s not a typo but a jest to the security implications, isn’t it?

Aurenkin ,

It was a joke on the dual meaning of “user repository” which I didn’t think about that deeply but that would have been smart.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

The Arch build system is just as impressive IMO. I’ve written Debian and redhat packages for at least two decades and Arch packaging is just so much easier to handle. The associated tooling for creating and managing build chroots is excellent as well.

astrsk ,
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I’ve been using Debian for many years now. The hardest part about switching my desktop to arch (partly to try something different, partly for later kernel / tools) was not that arch is difficult, but that I need to type ‘sudo pacman -S’ instead of ‘sudo apt install’ to install new packages. It is functionally the same in my day to day use which is fantastic.

BlanK0 ,

Ya, its just some people over exaggerated a bit. As long as you don’t do stuff that obviously tries to mess with core system stuff it should be fine.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

You must have missed the small print that says “Personality not included”. Linux is simple, individual character is hard.

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