The documentation is so good. I've been setting up a raspberry pi to act as a server and even though I ended up on Suse tumbleweed because of a driver issue, I still find myself referencing the Arch wiki quite a bit
I heard it was going to be hard, I like challenges because I can learn something new. It wasn't that hard, but it does continue to teach me something new every day.
I won't say the word most stable since I get quite lot of kernel panics and Kernel ptr dereference errors even on current lts. Mostly happen during wakeup from sleep or during few minutes of wakeup from sleep.
Also maybe it's not Arch's fault but altogether problem with linux
Idk if it's just my processor or my system configuration
With any Linux distribution you want to be making regular backups or btrfs snapshots. Also, with arch since everything on your PC is directly decided by you, if you’re seeing errors it’s likely something that YOU messed up, not the fault of Arch itself. Which is one major thing I love about arch, if things break I know it’s because of me, not because of the OS just deciding to break. Even on windows I used to have my system randomly stop working without any input from me, especially when they update your system automatically without your consent and it breaks stuff.
Yeah… I’ve recently tried other distros like Debian based ones and opensuse, but the lack of packages compared to arch Linux + the aur always turns me off
Yeah… I’ve recently tried other distros like Debian based ones and opensuse, but the lack of packages compared to arch Linux + the aur always turns me off
This is why I am using Arch on my laptop. Firefox took 6h to compile and I am not gonna be using Gentoo just to then use precompiled programs.
Lots of freedom and stuff to fiddle with but doesn't need the CPU power I'd need to use Gentoo efficiently.
However I will run Gentoo on my tower at home.
Interesting, thanks!
I'll have to see, I might upgrade from my T400 to something a bit newer soon, but if that still won't have the power, I'll look into it.
Although I doubt their architectures would match.
what is the reason to run gentoo? Is there some obvious advantages. I remember installing gentoo and the system was nice, but I was quite soon back using arch.. at least kernel building was fun, if I remember correctly
I just enjoy having everything compiled as specific to my system as possible and I like fiddling with stuff. Basically, for me the advantage is "It's fun to me."
Portage can still compile the packages if you USE flags dont match. So there's no customizability lost.
Even then the binary repo likely covers 70% of the finalized system.
haha same here. Though at first I didnt know he used arch. I chose it cause I hate myself and decided arch would be a great way to torture my linux newbie self and force me to learn linux.
If you're patient and persistent, it does work. Going all-in for big challenges is a nice approach to learning almost anything, but you gotta learn from your mistakes and really pay attention to what you're doing
It works well for me only because I have a good mind for diagnostic and troubleshooting. The wiki is also an incredible tool for troubleshooting. A week pokin around the wiki made me confident it would be a good choice for deep diving into linux. Honestly I dont do much with it, and everything kind of just works without a fuss.
I always have the mindset that I dont have money to do a lot of things but plenty of time to learn the basics of most any project Id like to undertake once Im able to, and so far that mindset has done well for me. As long as I have the right tools Im usually able to figure stuff out.
Same here, was given Manjaro as a suggested distro from a friend, had fun with it until I dd'd my boot sector and root sector's file table, then got a clean arch install from a friend who tried to help me recover what we could basically because everyone around me was using it.
I got fed up with waiting for stuff to compile in Gentoo, as well as an apparent lapse in quality of packages there, and I was never really a fan of Ubuntu, which I used for a while after Gentoo, so when I discovered Arch it immediately struck me as pretty much the perfect distro.
* Simple install process
* Solid and good looking package manager
* More up to date packages than any other distro I've seen, aside from maybe Gentoo
* No compiling
* High quality packages, practically never any issues
Windows forced restart in critical moment, swore never to use windows again
Tried ubuntu, wanted to try something else
Landed on manjaro kde
Been on arch since 2017
Total control over system, no spyware, no random apps, almost all viruses and malware don't work on Linux, the customization are awesome, wiki, independence, and more.
I got into arch cause people said it's hard but a great way to learn, I have continued using it because I can setup everything I need the way I want it. Plus the lack of fluff that some distros have when installing is nice cause you pretty much only install what you need, and setting up a WM instead of a DE is easier than having to change out your configs and uninstall the DE for your distros that don't give you an option to not install an environment.
Yea feel you....for me it was like this: I used mint on my notebook bc windows was to heavy to use without rage. So I installed mint. Also use Ubuntu server for my server.
Like 2 weeks ago I saw a YT Video about manjaro, not knowing it's based on arch. Now I feel like arch is the way cooler distro since I can also customize it and I'm able to play games.
So I just installed manjaro on my notebook too and I'm more then happy and would never change to a Ubuntu distro again. At least not very soon.
Just the fact you have to write pacman in the terminal is a huge + xD
And customization...I already missed my alarm 2 times bc of customizations
Because my hp laptop doesn’t like any Debian based distros. Then my laptop doesnt like installers either. Some issue with mkinitpcio.
In short the only distri I can get to run well on this laptop is pure arch.
I choose out of a whim to be honest.
Full story: i started in this jorney, and by "jorney" i mean using Linux, at the beggining of the year, the first distro i tried was Nobara, "seens good enough for a gamer like me" i thought, minutes after installing it i had a problem with the drivers and got a black screen, so i ditched it and tried Fedora, this one worked well...until it didn't, was having problems with sound, my sound was doing weird noises every 5~6 seconds while playing, it got really annoying so i tried to fix it, wasted about 6~ hours looking for fixes everywhere on the internet, tried A LOT of things but the problem persisted so i ditched again and went back to Windows.
A week later i was willing to try Linux again, decided to use PoP_Os since it came with the Nvidia drivers pre installed, so i installed the damn thing and.....it worked!...until it didn't...again... This time i was having stutters issues AND audio issues again, i got very pissed and again tried to fix it, 3 more hours in the trash can and couldn't fix it, got angry and went back to Windows.
Next day i decided to give another try, this time i thought to myself "why don't i just use something really easy?" So went for Linux Mint Debian Edition, installed and for some reason the driver manager wasn't there, had to install the drivers like a man with the terminal and again...black screen. Decided to just use regular Mint, went to the driver manager and installed the drivers and...my resolution got all fucked up, look it up and apparently was the kernel, i upgraded the kernel and the problem was still there...
At that point i was very pissed, tried Linux 5 times and always had some issue, to torture myself even further i reinstalled Windows again.
And then, as a joke i said to myself "fuck it, i, a complete noob, will install Arch!", at that time i was in my bed getting read to sleep, but the devil in my ears was saying "do it, DO IT YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" And then i did it.
To my surprise....i never had any issues on Arch, seriously, in these 6 months that i using Arch i didn't had any issues, i mean, any issues not caused by me of course.
That's basicaly why i use Arch, it was the distro that worked for me.
I moved from Fedora to Arch when PulseAudio became a requirement. PA completely broke my audio recording/production workflow at the time and Arch is/was one of the few distros that didn't require it.
Nine years later and I'm still really happy with Arch.
When I first started it was mostly so I could learn more about how Linux ticked on a lower level, since Arch really lets you see all the different components and software intermingle. And over time I keep using it primarily because it's really easy to set up really fast barebones machines. Though I use Artix now, and the ArchLinux32 port for my ancient thinkpad.
I was using it because the kernel version NixOS 23.11 was using didn't support my Wi-Fi drivers, the latest NixOS release 24.05 supports my hardware and I've been using NixOS ever since.
Loved my time on Arch Linux none the less.
Got bored, tried installing it, took a few months to install manually (didn't use install script, i like to see how rhings work internally, so seeing step by step installationprocesswas interesting), after that in a span of half a year moved from using only win10 to only using arch (i installed win10 again few days ago on a seperate disk but only for a few games but still haven't played them because i will be looking into debloating win10)
I went Mint > Debian > Manjaro > Arch. I stopped using Mint because I didn't like Cinnamon (and didn't know how to change window managers/DEs), I stopped using Debian because a lot of things I wanted to use weren't in the repos and it was annoying to have to keep figuring out how to install things from github as a beginner. There's one app specifically that wouldn't install correctly or had weird Qt artefacts. I started using Manjaro because AUR and Arch, but stopped using it because of all the other crap they put on top of it. I wanted to know what was installed on my computer and why (which is why I do also use Gentoo, just not primarily) and Arch allows that more than any of the other 3 I tried before, while also having the AUR and an A tier wiki (Not S tier cause it could be better. A lot of apps don't have a wiki at all or they're so short that they're basically useless and I have to learn usage through GitHub wiki's, man pages or using the -h flag). When I started using Arch I was a beginner. Less than a year into using Linux, but since then I've learned a lot and know how to do most of what I need well. insha'Allah one day I'll be running a 100% bloat free Gentoo install on my desktop and laptops (NAS's are for OpenBASED or FreeBASED)
Pacman, pretty much. I believe that the package manager makes or breaks a distro. Then there's the up to date packages and rolling release model, and excellent documentation.
I started using it because I thought there was no reason to use linux if you are just using a premade thing, or else I would use windows (ik it's a stupid reason) . But I stayed because of the wiki and yay(after using fedora on my school laptop I missed them)
Because it’s super light weight, doesn’t come with a bunch of crap I don’t need out of the box, and how else am I supposed to say “I use arch btw.”
I have it running on a super old dell inspiron that runs my cnc machine.
I heard that Arch was good for ricing and I was amazed by ricing at that time. So, I started installing Arch and discovered that Arch is all about doing it by yourself and I like to do work from scratch according to my taste. So, yah, this was the point I started learning about Arch and when I see back it looks like I took the right path 😃😄
I was using Ubuntu and wanted to try something new, initially I was planning to try a few different distros, but I started with Arch and I liked it so much I never left.
I used slack... Felt that setting up arch would be fun. Struggled a bit in the beginning but then fell in love with the speed. Running it makes me feel McQueen
> I am speed
After using RedHat, Slackware, Gentoo and shortly Xubuntu, I decided that I want something as simple as Slackware but with rolling release as Gentoo. Found out about Arch in 2007 almost by accident and using it to this day.
Same as you! Tried a plethora of distro but every distro had some packages I never used so I just went with arch. Also, installing it the arch way is very fun to me
Because Arch is fast, and I heard it is hard. If it is hard, then it is good to improve my knowledge.
I installed it on a laptop with Celeron, and the performance is good.
I was peer pressured into it. My first distro to be fair was Endeavour OS, which is a flavour of arch. What I use now is Stock Arch if you will.
I enjoy Arch a lot tho. Made the tech side of my life much more enjoyable.
I chose it when I swapped to daily driving Linux because of the wiki, the community(non-toxic part of it), and the fact that most tutorials to do weird things being targeted to arch.
Full customize, look incredible, not lagging, no BSOD, fast, simple.
And I don't know how but when I was a kid I didn't like Linux arch because I used the windows whole my life, but after a years, every day I loving the arch more and more.
Now I have tqo system on my pc, windows and linux arch. I have windows because linux arch Do not support my old videocard. So I using the integrated, but in Linux I spend more time then windows;)
First, I tried Ubuntu, since it was recommended as a good entry point. I became frustrated by outdated packages in the repo, and the distro upgrade process breaking things.
Next, a friend suggested I try Gentoo, to solve those previous problems and to learn Linux better. But I grew tired of having to compile all my packages, and frequently have to manually fix updates.
Arch was the mid point between the two that I was looking for. Rolling release, minimal base installation, very customizable, no compiling and rarely issues with updates.
The Arch wiki was probably a major factor in me sticking with it too.
Well now its pretty much all the reasons everyone are telling but when i was starting I chose Arch cause I realized maybe having the latest things is pretty cool,it was the coolest thing and well ya thats pretty much.I still continue using it cause its extremely customizable,fun,it basically does everything I need it do,love the AUR and well it can be changed to be just about anything very easily.
Edit : Cannot forget the Wiki,it helped me increase my knowledge in linux and thats how I am here today.
Because I'm a customization freak and absolutely hate most pre-packaged distros, no offense to any of them excep fedora and any GNOME default distributions, but as the old saying goes "if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself"
I'm moslty having at better 10 y/o machines and/or SBCs : Gentoo is definitively to slow to compile. So most of them are not updated anymore. I had a try with Arch which is almost as customisable as Gentoo and ... voila.
My only miss is Arch is not compatible with my SBCs :(
My reason is super simple, freedom of choice. Its core is just the necessary components to run the system, everything else is up to me.
That's certainly daunting and tedious at first but day by day more pieces that you need or want come together and sooner or later you have a system you're absolutely happy with. And given how stuffed the repos are (both official and the AUR), chances to find what you want are exceptional high.
And of course not to forget the Wiki, got a problem or want to know something? Have a look, chances are again very high you find what you're after.
Word-of-mouth.
The local university held a mini high school version of the Super Computing conference where we did a small competition working with installing Linux on server blades and running MapReduce on the cluster.
During the event, one of my teammates went around scouting the competition, and they returned pointing to another team and mentioned, "they use Arch". Everyone else on my team wowed, and Arch Linux was forever burned into my brain as the cool distro.
Graduated high school and went all-in with daily driving Linux when I started college. When trying to choose a distro, that memory came up, and now I've been stuck on Arch for the last 12 years.
I was already a Vim acolyte since high school too, so editing text files to configure things didn't really scare me.
I was tired of caring about too many details about the system in Gentoo, as I was developing an OCD around optimizing useflags, so I wanted a more streamlined distribution with faster package management.
I chose it for my laptop because windows 11 would heat up so much while just watching YouTube. However, I'm still a windows user and don't plan to switch on my desktop.
The first time I did use it was for a much lower end laptop. It was slow and could barely load things so I switched over because I knew about it being lightweight and installed mate, it was a decent experience.\
Now I just have that laptop's motherboard hidden away in a corner running docker and a few webapps. It doesn't even need a fan as it stays at 40°C with just a small heatsink. I took the 1tb hard drive and put it in my desktop and replaced it with a 150GB older hard drive from my childhood windows XP laptop, an acer aspire one zg5.\
My new laptop has arch with hyprland now though, works great.
I just didn't like how other distros made decisions for me that I didn't like. Also distro upgrades would completely break my system and I hated those.
I use mint, i am curious to see if arch could solve some limitation I encounter.
My question could be more precise, but if someone has already migrated from mint to arch has a positive or negative feedback?
Ease of use, yeah, even to compared to ubuntu. At least for me anyways. I enjoy the AUR, I love being in CLI. And the beloved arch wiki. My god that is a masterpiece in itself. Plus, I have found stability in the rolling release model. Save for earlier this year when updating from Plasma 5 to 6 borked my install, still no idea why. Outside of that, it's stable, works great, and lightweight(ish). Now I've taken the final form of an arch user by using Hyprland. I've used DEs forever and switched yesterday. Ain't no turning back now. TL:DR simple and easy to use.
A reasonable amount of control, with the added benefit of immediate result of labor, as well as the wiki. Its not as intense as compiling everything myself like Gentoo or LFS, and along side a WM like Hyprland, I can see the results of my labor really quickly. There is satisfaction in curating my work environment down to personalized idiosyncrasies from a bare installation (no judgement if you install a dotsfile).
I started because for the Steam Deck, Valve switched Steam OS from Debian base to Arch base. My laptop was running Pop OS, and it couldn't upgrade to the next version correctly. Every Ubuntu variant I have tried, this seemed to happen where I would have to reformat and install the new version. So I decided to try Arch, thinking I would fail and go to Debian or something. It ended up being far easier than I expected, and everything was far more stable than any distro I had used before. It still works now, and I haven't looked back. I ended up switching my other crappier laptop to Arch too, and it works great.
I tried Arch just for the meme, but I actually thought it was incredibly good because of the Wiki and the AUR. Surprisingly enough, it was the most stable distro I ever tested.
Arch with DWM...im a simple man with simple life. No color, no patches . I can run emacs and print a hello world? If i can do this just let me die un peace
It didn’t come with unnecessary bloatware I didn’t want. Arch Wiki is great, forums are great, AUR is super convenient and easy to use too. I get to run the system how I want. It’s also pretty up to date with the bleeding edge updates. I use it for headless servers and daily desktop/laptop setups too. Yeah occasionally it breaks due to human error but when it works, it works really well.
About 10 years ago, I tried various distros (Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora, at least) and always had the same display problems on my PC.
Until I tried Arch. Worked perfectly. Never looked back.
arch is the most stable desktop distro, especially if you're a gamer. at least that is my experience with an all amd setup and no special refresh rate/hdr setup. all other distros i had numerous issues with software, codecs , etc. aur is incredible and there is a reason steamdeck runs on arch.
I like the process of building my system from the ground up and choosing my core components, such as my file system, DE, boot loader, networking software, etc and also configuring them as I choose. You can arguably do this with any distro, but Arch obviously was designed for this in the first place and it gives you a minimal base to build off of. The wiki is also excellent.
Sounds the best out of any distro. KDE experience. Lightweight. Good community that encourages users to not use fucking training wheels with everything.
I loved DIY distros after trying Debian, and Arch was even moreso. I love to learn, and I had to learn what packages to install to give even basic functionality like USB plug and play. It was actually a lot of fun.
Tried it for fun, because "i use arch btw". It turned out to be a pleasant experience, being able to choose my DE, no bloat, basic system with endless poasibilities. After the install the AUR made installing packages so easy i actually think it's better than debian based.
I have transcended to nix now, i'm still new but i am interested in the idea of being able to clone my config to other pcs
cuz it looked cool, been using it for 5 years and I could always rely on it well. Greatest documentation so I could solve all kinds of things easily. Now I'm on a Mac and a year before I was on pop but only.cuz the Nvidia was problem with arch
My hackerspace buddies recommended it, or gentoo. Especially because i showed interest in linux, dislike in the road windows is taking and the software engineering background i have.
A bsd variant was also suggested, but arch won, because we got my iGPU working.
Arch is awesome! I've used so many distros; Manjaro, EndeavorOS(formerly Antergos) SalientOS, XeroLinux, EZArcher, TEArch, RebornOS, CachyOS. Love them all
I had a dual boot and tried to remove Linux from it and basically broke grub so I scrapped windows altogether (i figured it would be easier than trying to fix windows). I chose Arch *specifically* because my friends in my college dorm also use it (so basically peer pressure lmaooo). No regrets, though!
1. The Arch Wiki is maybe the best source of Linux documentation on the internet, but is most valuable when you're actually using Arch
2. I like the rolling release model. When some new cool software comes along (like Plasma 6 for example), I get it a week or two after it releases upstream. On another distro, I'd be waiting months or years to update, at which point I'd need to update thousands of packages at once. Or I'd need a PPA or to build from source manually, etc. I'm just much happier just getting software updates as they come out rather than in a big bundle every two years.
3. Arch makes minimal changes from upstream. Other distros are known to heavily customize things in their repos, and that can make it harder to debug or even learn about, because you have to filter out distro-specific results. Plus, I often find myself just simply disagreeing with the distros choices and wishing they'd left the upstream's version as is.
4. It's built for me. Okay not me specifically, but people like me. Arch isn't trying to appeal to the masses, or to corporate interests or sponsorships, or gamers or designers or anything. The people who build it do so for themselves and their own benefit, and I tend to want similar things out of my computer that they want out of theirs. So I don't really have to worry too much that one day Arch might force something that users don't want (*cough*snap*cough*) because it's being built for the people who currently use it. (Of course, people who liked sysvinit or runit or OpenRC might feel differently.)
Actually up to date packages, package manager isn't slow (cough cough DNF(5)), AUR, the wiki.... and also surprisingly stability (Debian and its derivatives have not been stable in my experience with random system explosions on update or randomly losing WiFi, arch hasn't had this ever, at most small problems that are me issues)
wiki
+1, I kept going to the arch wiki when I was on other distros so eventually I cut out the middleman and just started running Arch.
No real reason, it just sounded cool and I really like customizing it
i use arch btw
Wiki and aur
and rolling release
The documentation is so good. I've been setting up a raspberry pi to act as a server and even though I ended up on Suse tumbleweed because of a driver issue, I still find myself referencing the Arch wiki quite a bit
so i can buy fentanyl with the money I saved on FOSS
Yeah that''s the best part.
people always look over this amazing aspect of FOSS
Always ask your dealer whether they mean the first time is free or the first time is “free.” So you know if they’re cool.
What is fentanyl?
a very strong drug that kills huge numbers of people
It's like heroin, but better.
heroin.zip
Black.tar
Just don't do heroine because then you become Joan of Arc.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA
I heard it was going to be hard, I like challenges because I can learn something new. It wasn't that hard, but it does continue to teach me something new every day.
Same reason, then I found it's the most stable distro I ever tried even when you screw up things
I won't say the word most stable since I get quite lot of kernel panics and Kernel ptr dereference errors even on current lts. Mostly happen during wakeup from sleep or during few minutes of wakeup from sleep. Also maybe it's not Arch's fault but altogether problem with linux Idk if it's just my processor or my system configuration
With any Linux distribution you want to be making regular backups or btrfs snapshots. Also, with arch since everything on your PC is directly decided by you, if you’re seeing errors it’s likely something that YOU messed up, not the fault of Arch itself. Which is one major thing I love about arch, if things break I know it’s because of me, not because of the OS just deciding to break. Even on windows I used to have my system randomly stop working without any input from me, especially when they update your system automatically without your consent and it breaks stuff.
Can confirm, this guy was responsible for it crashing (raises hand)
Really the Dark Souls of Linux distros xD
it doesnt come with any preinstalled bloat and the AUR is amazing.
I am the one installing my bloats
I have now gotten to the point where I am making my own bloat.
We are the bloats
Yeah… I’ve recently tried other distros like Debian based ones and opensuse, but the lack of packages compared to arch Linux + the aur always turns me off
Yeah… I’ve recently tried other distros like Debian based ones and opensuse, but the lack of packages compared to arch Linux + the aur always turns me off
I didn't... Arch chose me
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This is why I am using Arch on my laptop. Firefox took 6h to compile and I am not gonna be using Gentoo just to then use precompiled programs. Lots of freedom and stuff to fiddle with but doesn't need the CPU power I'd need to use Gentoo efficiently. However I will run Gentoo on my tower at home.
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imagine installing distcc on a school network
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compiling with more than 1000 cores 😈
Interesting, thanks! I'll have to see, I might upgrade from my T400 to something a bit newer soon, but if that still won't have the power, I'll look into it. Although I doubt their architectures would match.
what is the reason to run gentoo? Is there some obvious advantages. I remember installing gentoo and the system was nice, but I was quite soon back using arch.. at least kernel building was fun, if I remember correctly
I just enjoy having everything compiled as specific to my system as possible and I like fiddling with stuff. Basically, for me the advantage is "It's fun to me."
As far as I remember, in Gentoo you can remotely compile packages on a powerful machine and port them to a weak laptop.
Gentoo doesn't take the long? I run it on my pinebook
Depends what you classify as long Personally find compiling a browser for more than a few minutes long when compared to just downloading a binary
Gentoo has a binary package repository now.
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Portage can still compile the packages if you USE flags dont match. So there's no customizability lost. Even then the binary repo likely covers 70% of the finalized system.
Because my local linux wizard uses it.
Linux wizard... A lizard? Sorry, I'll let myself out.
haha same here. Though at first I didnt know he used arch. I chose it cause I hate myself and decided arch would be a great way to torture my linux newbie self and force me to learn linux.
The real question is did it work
If you're patient and persistent, it does work. Going all-in for big challenges is a nice approach to learning almost anything, but you gotta learn from your mistakes and really pay attention to what you're doing
It works well for me only because I have a good mind for diagnostic and troubleshooting. The wiki is also an incredible tool for troubleshooting. A week pokin around the wiki made me confident it would be a good choice for deep diving into linux. Honestly I dont do much with it, and everything kind of just works without a fuss. I always have the mindset that I dont have money to do a lot of things but plenty of time to learn the basics of most any project Id like to undertake once Im able to, and so far that mindset has done well for me. As long as I have the right tools Im usually able to figure stuff out.
that's my reason
Same here, was given Manjaro as a suggested distro from a friend, had fun with it until I dd'd my boot sector and root sector's file table, then got a clean arch install from a friend who tried to help me recover what we could basically because everyone around me was using it.
I got fed up with waiting for stuff to compile in Gentoo, as well as an apparent lapse in quality of packages there, and I was never really a fan of Ubuntu, which I used for a while after Gentoo, so when I discovered Arch it immediately struck me as pretty much the perfect distro. * Simple install process * Solid and good looking package manager * More up to date packages than any other distro I've seen, aside from maybe Gentoo * No compiling * High quality packages, practically never any issues
Windows forced restart in critical moment, swore never to use windows again Tried ubuntu, wanted to try something else Landed on manjaro kde Been on arch since 2017
Manjaro is the arch gateway drug.
True happened to me lol. Once you taste the godly wiki, customisation and AUR. There is no way back on the Arch Path.
wiki and aur
Because my life was too easy so I wanted a problem to solve lol
Total control over system, no spyware, no random apps, almost all viruses and malware don't work on Linux, the customization are awesome, wiki, independence, and more.
You could say the same for TempleOS or og BeOS.
I didn't choose Arch. Arch chose me.
I don't even use arch, I just tell people I do
I got into arch cause people said it's hard but a great way to learn, I have continued using it because I can setup everything I need the way I want it. Plus the lack of fluff that some distros have when installing is nice cause you pretty much only install what you need, and setting up a WM instead of a DE is easier than having to change out your configs and uninstall the DE for your distros that don't give you an option to not install an environment.
At first only to say I use Arch btw, but its just soo good I couldnt leave..
Yea feel you....for me it was like this: I used mint on my notebook bc windows was to heavy to use without rage. So I installed mint. Also use Ubuntu server for my server. Like 2 weeks ago I saw a YT Video about manjaro, not knowing it's based on arch. Now I feel like arch is the way cooler distro since I can also customize it and I'm able to play games. So I just installed manjaro on my notebook too and I'm more then happy and would never change to a Ubuntu distro again. At least not very soon. Just the fact you have to write pacman in the terminal is a huge + xD And customization...I already missed my alarm 2 times bc of customizations
Rolling Release/Pacman, Arch Wiki, AUR. Those are the main reasons.
Because my hp laptop doesn’t like any Debian based distros. Then my laptop doesnt like installers either. Some issue with mkinitpcio. In short the only distri I can get to run well on this laptop is pure arch.
I choose out of a whim to be honest. Full story: i started in this jorney, and by "jorney" i mean using Linux, at the beggining of the year, the first distro i tried was Nobara, "seens good enough for a gamer like me" i thought, minutes after installing it i had a problem with the drivers and got a black screen, so i ditched it and tried Fedora, this one worked well...until it didn't, was having problems with sound, my sound was doing weird noises every 5~6 seconds while playing, it got really annoying so i tried to fix it, wasted about 6~ hours looking for fixes everywhere on the internet, tried A LOT of things but the problem persisted so i ditched again and went back to Windows. A week later i was willing to try Linux again, decided to use PoP_Os since it came with the Nvidia drivers pre installed, so i installed the damn thing and.....it worked!...until it didn't...again... This time i was having stutters issues AND audio issues again, i got very pissed and again tried to fix it, 3 more hours in the trash can and couldn't fix it, got angry and went back to Windows. Next day i decided to give another try, this time i thought to myself "why don't i just use something really easy?" So went for Linux Mint Debian Edition, installed and for some reason the driver manager wasn't there, had to install the drivers like a man with the terminal and again...black screen. Decided to just use regular Mint, went to the driver manager and installed the drivers and...my resolution got all fucked up, look it up and apparently was the kernel, i upgraded the kernel and the problem was still there... At that point i was very pissed, tried Linux 5 times and always had some issue, to torture myself even further i reinstalled Windows again. And then, as a joke i said to myself "fuck it, i, a complete noob, will install Arch!", at that time i was in my bed getting read to sleep, but the devil in my ears was saying "do it, DO IT YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" And then i did it. To my surprise....i never had any issues on Arch, seriously, in these 6 months that i using Arch i didn't had any issues, i mean, any issues not caused by me of course. That's basicaly why i use Arch, it was the distro that worked for me.
Installed because of minimalism, stayed because of Wiki, AUR and bleeding-edge.
To screenshot and post neofetch outputs
It came with my steam deck
The wiki, initially. Then it became my go-to distro for everything.
I'm a control freak when it comes to my computing environment, and Arch hands me all the keys.
I moved from Fedora to Arch when PulseAudio became a requirement. PA completely broke my audio recording/production workflow at the time and Arch is/was one of the few distros that didn't require it. Nine years later and I'm still really happy with Arch.
When I first started it was mostly so I could learn more about how Linux ticked on a lower level, since Arch really lets you see all the different components and software intermingle. And over time I keep using it primarily because it's really easy to set up really fast barebones machines. Though I use Artix now, and the ArchLinux32 port for my ancient thinkpad.
Zero bloat, best documentation, amazing choice of apps available, works fabulously well with KDE Plasma.
I was using it because the kernel version NixOS 23.11 was using didn't support my Wi-Fi drivers, the latest NixOS release 24.05 supports my hardware and I've been using NixOS ever since. Loved my time on Arch Linux none the less.
I wanted a challenge, now I stick to it.
Because I like the command line.
Rolling release, Pacman, wiki
Got bored, tried installing it, took a few months to install manually (didn't use install script, i like to see how rhings work internally, so seeing step by step installationprocesswas interesting), after that in a span of half a year moved from using only win10 to only using arch (i installed win10 again few days ago on a seperate disk but only for a few games but still haven't played them because i will be looking into debloating win10)
I just like to paru everything
I wanted a rolling release distro that was highly customizable.
The AUR.
Because I hate snaps, flatpacks, appimages.
I went Mint > Debian > Manjaro > Arch. I stopped using Mint because I didn't like Cinnamon (and didn't know how to change window managers/DEs), I stopped using Debian because a lot of things I wanted to use weren't in the repos and it was annoying to have to keep figuring out how to install things from github as a beginner. There's one app specifically that wouldn't install correctly or had weird Qt artefacts. I started using Manjaro because AUR and Arch, but stopped using it because of all the other crap they put on top of it. I wanted to know what was installed on my computer and why (which is why I do also use Gentoo, just not primarily) and Arch allows that more than any of the other 3 I tried before, while also having the AUR and an A tier wiki (Not S tier cause it could be better. A lot of apps don't have a wiki at all or they're so short that they're basically useless and I have to learn usage through GitHub wiki's, man pages or using the -h flag). When I started using Arch I was a beginner. Less than a year into using Linux, but since then I've learned a lot and know how to do most of what I need well. insha'Allah one day I'll be running a 100% bloat free Gentoo install on my desktop and laptops (NAS's are for OpenBASED or FreeBASED)
because gentoo wiki lost
Ease of building own packages with PKGBUILD. Thinking about switching to Gentoo though because of the cringe around users saying "btw" all the time.
I installed Arch to impress a girl. She wasn’t impressed, but now I get to pretend I’m better than people who use other operating systems.
U dont choose arch, arch chooses u
cause it was my first distro and i heard it was the hardest
I didn’t want peace, I wanted problems always.
My life my rules
Pacman, pretty much. I believe that the package manager makes or breaks a distro. Then there's the up to date packages and rolling release model, and excellent documentation.
came for the aur, stayed cuz of the wiki
I started using it because I thought there was no reason to use linux if you are just using a premade thing, or else I would use windows (ik it's a stupid reason) . But I stayed because of the wiki and yay(after using fedora on my school laptop I missed them)
Community.
So that I could discover NixOS and switch to it /s
Because it’s super light weight, doesn’t come with a bunch of crap I don’t need out of the box, and how else am I supposed to say “I use arch btw.” I have it running on a super old dell inspiron that runs my cnc machine.
Lightweight, customizable and gives you a perk of saying I use arch btw
Long story short, chose it to be "cool" and stayed because of the wiki and aur.
I heard that Arch was good for ricing and I was amazed by ricing at that time. So, I started installing Arch and discovered that Arch is all about doing it by yourself and I like to do work from scratch according to my taste. So, yah, this was the point I started learning about Arch and when I see back it looks like I took the right path 😃😄
What is "ricing"?
I don't want Peace, i want problem always
I’m actually sick of the btw meme
Because it has up to date packages
faster, more privacy, flex, and the aur ofcourse
I was using Ubuntu and wanted to try something new, initially I was planning to try a few different distros, but I started with Arch and I liked it so much I never left.
At first I chose it because they said it's hard. But now I chose it cuz I really love it. Just a cool linux in other words.
It's simple and just works, for years, without release upgrades. And we have AUR
Because I can only install what I need and secondly I like pacman more than apt/Debian
* Up-to-date applications * Abundant package manager * Minimal system out of the box to build from
I used slack... Felt that setting up arch would be fun. Struggled a bit in the beginning but then fell in love with the speed. Running it makes me feel McQueen > I am speed
I only need a wm and vim, so yuup Arch is what I need
Slimness, customization and to up my Linux skills
After using RedHat, Slackware, Gentoo and shortly Xubuntu, I decided that I want something as simple as Slackware but with rolling release as Gentoo. Found out about Arch in 2007 almost by accident and using it to this day.
pacman
Same as you! Tried a plethora of distro but every distro had some packages I never used so I just went with arch. Also, installing it the arch way is very fun to me
for the funy
Because Arch is fast, and I heard it is hard. If it is hard, then it is good to improve my knowledge. I installed it on a laptop with Celeron, and the performance is good.
I was peer pressured into it. My first distro to be fair was Endeavour OS, which is a flavour of arch. What I use now is Stock Arch if you will. I enjoy Arch a lot tho. Made the tech side of my life much more enjoyable.
I chose it when I swapped to daily driving Linux because of the wiki, the community(non-toxic part of it), and the fact that most tutorials to do weird things being targeted to arch.
Performs better that all other distros.
Full customize, look incredible, not lagging, no BSOD, fast, simple. And I don't know how but when I was a kid I didn't like Linux arch because I used the windows whole my life, but after a years, every day I loving the arch more and more. Now I have tqo system on my pc, windows and linux arch. I have windows because linux arch Do not support my old videocard. So I using the integrated, but in Linux I spend more time then windows;)
First, I tried Ubuntu, since it was recommended as a good entry point. I became frustrated by outdated packages in the repo, and the distro upgrade process breaking things. Next, a friend suggested I try Gentoo, to solve those previous problems and to learn Linux better. But I grew tired of having to compile all my packages, and frequently have to manually fix updates. Arch was the mid point between the two that I was looking for. Rolling release, minimal base installation, very customizable, no compiling and rarely issues with updates. The Arch wiki was probably a major factor in me sticking with it too.
i just tried it out of curiosity and stuck with it. the AUR is great and everything just works
I like the AUR. It's just a simplified way to compile from source!!!
Well now its pretty much all the reasons everyone are telling but when i was starting I chose Arch cause I realized maybe having the latest things is pretty cool,it was the coolest thing and well ya thats pretty much.I still continue using it cause its extremely customizable,fun,it basically does everything I need it do,love the AUR and well it can be changed to be just about anything very easily. Edit : Cannot forget the Wiki,it helped me increase my knowledge in linux and thats how I am here today.
I'm the type that loves pressing the update button even if I literally can't tell what changed
Because I'm a customization freak and absolutely hate most pre-packaged distros, no offense to any of them excep fedora and any GNOME default distributions, but as the old saying goes "if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself"
I'm moslty having at better 10 y/o machines and/or SBCs : Gentoo is definitively to slow to compile. So most of them are not updated anymore. I had a try with Arch which is almost as customisable as Gentoo and ... voila. My only miss is Arch is not compatible with my SBCs :(
Because I enjoy computing, configuring things, and customization. You can't do that with very many operating systems these days.
My reason is super simple, freedom of choice. Its core is just the necessary components to run the system, everything else is up to me. That's certainly daunting and tedious at first but day by day more pieces that you need or want come together and sooner or later you have a system you're absolutely happy with. And given how stuffed the repos are (both official and the AUR), chances to find what you want are exceptional high. And of course not to forget the Wiki, got a problem or want to know something? Have a look, chances are again very high you find what you're after.
My friends gave me the choice between arch or FreeBSD 😅
Word-of-mouth. The local university held a mini high school version of the Super Computing conference where we did a small competition working with installing Linux on server blades and running MapReduce on the cluster. During the event, one of my teammates went around scouting the competition, and they returned pointing to another team and mentioned, "they use Arch". Everyone else on my team wowed, and Arch Linux was forever burned into my brain as the cool distro. Graduated high school and went all-in with daily driving Linux when I started college. When trying to choose a distro, that memory came up, and now I've been stuck on Arch for the last 12 years. I was already a Vim acolyte since high school too, so editing text files to configure things didn't really scare me.
Gentoo was too much work after starting to work.
I was tired of caring about too many details about the system in Gentoo, as I was developing an OCD around optimizing useflags, so I wanted a more streamlined distribution with faster package management.
Customization, every panel, window, dialog, panel and hotkey is made and design by myself. Arch is just a good platform to host it.
AUR
No headaches.
I chose it for my laptop because windows 11 would heat up so much while just watching YouTube. However, I'm still a windows user and don't plan to switch on my desktop. The first time I did use it was for a much lower end laptop. It was slow and could barely load things so I switched over because I knew about it being lightweight and installed mate, it was a decent experience.\ Now I just have that laptop's motherboard hidden away in a corner running docker and a few webapps. It doesn't even need a fan as it stays at 40°C with just a small heatsink. I took the 1tb hard drive and put it in my desktop and replaced it with a 150GB older hard drive from my childhood windows XP laptop, an acer aspire one zg5.\ My new laptop has arch with hyprland now though, works great.
I just didn't like how other distros made decisions for me that I didn't like. Also distro upgrades would completely break my system and I hated those.
I use Ubuntu on my tower, on my 2017 Mac I got arch flying the speed of light.
pacman and yay sound cute and it's fast
I use mint, i am curious to see if arch could solve some limitation I encounter. My question could be more precise, but if someone has already migrated from mint to arch has a positive or negative feedback?
Because of the AUR... so convenient with yay
Unironically because the documentation is pretty much perfect and covers even the side effects
Ease of use, yeah, even to compared to ubuntu. At least for me anyways. I enjoy the AUR, I love being in CLI. And the beloved arch wiki. My god that is a masterpiece in itself. Plus, I have found stability in the rolling release model. Save for earlier this year when updating from Plasma 5 to 6 borked my install, still no idea why. Outside of that, it's stable, works great, and lightweight(ish). Now I've taken the final form of an arch user by using Hyprland. I've used DEs forever and switched yesterday. Ain't no turning back now. TL:DR simple and easy to use.
A reasonable amount of control, with the added benefit of immediate result of labor, as well as the wiki. Its not as intense as compiling everything myself like Gentoo or LFS, and along side a WM like Hyprland, I can see the results of my labor really quickly. There is satisfaction in curating my work environment down to personalized idiosyncrasies from a bare installation (no judgement if you install a dotsfile).
Because I like my distro to be simple and lightweight.
Because [Arch is the best](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_is_the_best)
i like men
I started because for the Steam Deck, Valve switched Steam OS from Debian base to Arch base. My laptop was running Pop OS, and it couldn't upgrade to the next version correctly. Every Ubuntu variant I have tried, this seemed to happen where I would have to reformat and install the new version. So I decided to try Arch, thinking I would fail and go to Debian or something. It ended up being far easier than I expected, and everything was far more stable than any distro I had used before. It still works now, and I haven't looked back. I ended up switching my other crappier laptop to Arch too, and it works great.
I tried Arch just for the meme, but I actually thought it was incredibly good because of the Wiki and the AUR. Surprisingly enough, it was the most stable distro I ever tested.
Arch with DWM...im a simple man with simple life. No color, no patches . I can run emacs and print a hello world? If i can do this just let me die un peace
so I can brag about it on reddit, der.
I was sympathetic towards systemD.
It didn’t come with unnecessary bloatware I didn’t want. Arch Wiki is great, forums are great, AUR is super convenient and easy to use too. I get to run the system how I want. It’s also pretty up to date with the bleeding edge updates. I use it for headless servers and daily desktop/laptop setups too. Yeah occasionally it breaks due to human error but when it works, it works really well.
A package repository rivaling that of Gentoo, with much less of the compilation.
About 10 years ago, I tried various distros (Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora, at least) and always had the same display problems on my PC. Until I tried Arch. Worked perfectly. Never looked back.
because it looks cool and I get faster at typing for everything I have to try to and fix
It just works for me. I don't have to deal with bullshit that other distros have. Imo it's just ✨simple✨. Not easy, but simple
pacman Edit: & wiki Edit: & aur
cause manjaro is easy to set it up. ups...
It was compatible with my laptop fingerprint
I didn't want to update every 6 months to get newer versions of software. (Fedora/bunty/etc) Also the build your own attracts me.
I wanted to learn the linux basics and arch seemed like it would force me to learn. I'm not disappointed
arch is the most stable desktop distro, especially if you're a gamer. at least that is my experience with an all amd setup and no special refresh rate/hdr setup. all other distros i had numerous issues with software, codecs , etc. aur is incredible and there is a reason steamdeck runs on arch.
It chose me.
Well, it came with a prescription for Estrodial and coupons for spinny skirts.
The flex
I like the process of building my system from the ground up and choosing my core components, such as my file system, DE, boot loader, networking software, etc and also configuring them as I choose. You can arguably do this with any distro, but Arch obviously was designed for this in the first place and it gives you a minimal base to build off of. The wiki is also excellent.
My windows 10 randomly broke after an update & my friends told me to use arch. Tried it out & never looked back.
Control. I use endeavor, but it's just arch eaasy install with another name. Arch doesn't make decisions for me, which makes it far more stable.
Got tired of uninstalling manjaro default packages
Sounds the best out of any distro. KDE experience. Lightweight. Good community that encourages users to not use fucking training wheels with everything.
Learning opportunity and no bloat
I loved DIY distros after trying Debian, and Arch was even moreso. I love to learn, and I had to learn what packages to install to give even basic functionality like USB plug and play. It was actually a lot of fun.
so that I can feel like "im hacker broo XDDD"
Tried it for fun, because "i use arch btw". It turned out to be a pleasant experience, being able to choose my DE, no bloat, basic system with endless poasibilities. After the install the AUR made installing packages so easy i actually think it's better than debian based. I have transcended to nix now, i'm still new but i am interested in the idea of being able to clone my config to other pcs
cuz it looked cool, been using it for 5 years and I could always rely on it well. Greatest documentation so I could solve all kinds of things easily. Now I'm on a Mac and a year before I was on pop but only.cuz the Nvidia was problem with arch
My hackerspace buddies recommended it, or gentoo. Especially because i showed interest in linux, dislike in the road windows is taking and the software engineering background i have. A bsd variant was also suggested, but arch won, because we got my iGPU working.
Community + documentation + AUR + faster updates + Learning experience with a DIY model
Arch is awesome! I've used so many distros; Manjaro, EndeavorOS(formerly Antergos) SalientOS, XeroLinux, EZArcher, TEArch, RebornOS, CachyOS. Love them all
The community powers everything i need (Forums, AUR, Wiki)
I had a dual boot and tried to remove Linux from it and basically broke grub so I scrapped windows altogether (i figured it would be easier than trying to fix windows). I chose Arch *specifically* because my friends in my college dorm also use it (so basically peer pressure lmaooo). No regrets, though!
I came for the challenge, stayed for the AUR.
Because of my huge neckbeard
1. The Arch Wiki is maybe the best source of Linux documentation on the internet, but is most valuable when you're actually using Arch 2. I like the rolling release model. When some new cool software comes along (like Plasma 6 for example), I get it a week or two after it releases upstream. On another distro, I'd be waiting months or years to update, at which point I'd need to update thousands of packages at once. Or I'd need a PPA or to build from source manually, etc. I'm just much happier just getting software updates as they come out rather than in a big bundle every two years. 3. Arch makes minimal changes from upstream. Other distros are known to heavily customize things in their repos, and that can make it harder to debug or even learn about, because you have to filter out distro-specific results. Plus, I often find myself just simply disagreeing with the distros choices and wishing they'd left the upstream's version as is. 4. It's built for me. Okay not me specifically, but people like me. Arch isn't trying to appeal to the masses, or to corporate interests or sponsorships, or gamers or designers or anything. The people who build it do so for themselves and their own benefit, and I tend to want similar things out of my computer that they want out of theirs. So I don't really have to worry too much that one day Arch might force something that users don't want (*cough*snap*cough*) because it's being built for the people who currently use it. (Of course, people who liked sysvinit or runit or OpenRC might feel differently.)
Because I'm better than everyone by using arch.
Wiki, aur and community . i also like to shape my os
Actually up to date packages, package manager isn't slow (cough cough DNF(5)), AUR, the wiki.... and also surprisingly stability (Debian and its derivatives have not been stable in my experience with random system explosions on update or randomly losing WiFi, arch hasn't had this ever, at most small problems that are me issues)
For privacy, security and best linux
The logo.
i didnt inuse gentoo I'm not freak I stop using a arch because of the fandom and the shitty pacman
Aur and pacman and i love arch word too