Why does Arch get so much hate on here? I've been using it for a year and never had any problems with pacman breaking X or any other packages. Stability has never been an issue, either.
I installed it once, with a short and to-the-point installation guide, and I was done in less than 20 minutes.
What don't people like about it?
>>53593726
install gentoo
Many Arch users (especially on reddit and similar) are very loud and elitist, and generally a PITA.
>>53593726
/v/ is scared of reading texts
Debian testing > all
rch isn't necessarily _bad_. There are some design and security issues I don't like (overwriting configuration files when reinstalling a package, pulling in AUR sources from external URLs, etc), but that's about it.
My problem with Arch is that it brings _nothing_ new to the table. Everything Archers brag about (KISS, customisation, community) has been a part of other distributions for decades. It's as though most Arch users think every non-Arch distribution is like Ubuntu and locks you in to a specific way of doing things.
I haven't seen any of the Arch developers push useful code upstream either. They just write a few Arch-specific scripts and patches. Go diff the mainline kernel against Arch's. Whereas other distributions add new features and bugfixes that later get accepted into the kernel proper, Arch just adds a few patches I doubt their developers even wrote:
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/linux
And yes, I realise that contributing back code isn't the be all and end all of a distribution. However, other distributions that are frequently attacked for not pushing code upstream contribute in other ways. The obvious example is Ubuntu; it does little for actual development, but it has done more for advocacy then any other distribution I can think of.
>>53594761
but this is /g/.
>>53595792
>53 million posts
Surely you don't think /g/ made all these?
>>53595976
what the hell do you even think /g/ means faglord?
>>53593726
It's to cutting edge for /g/
>>53595792
which is mostly populated by /v/-tier posters
The only valid reason for using arch is wanting to learn about linux.
For any other task it is objectively inferior to all other distros
>>53593726
The elitist part of the userbase is too loud, specially on /g/, although now it's preety calmed down comparing it to a couple years back, you can even find cool people on it, if you're lucky enough.
