Daily reminder that anyone using Arch for "minimalism" or "freedom of choice" is a fucking retard.
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html
STRAIGHT FROM AN ARCH DEV
ARCH SHILLS B T F O
The arch logo looks like a fat guy with a pointy head
>>53606746
They know their target audience.
>>53606732
I use arch for minimalism and freedom of choice.
>>53606732
Arch is comfy as fuck and you can rice it pretty easily. That's why I use it.
> be steve jobs
> practice zen + minimalism
> design iphone
> get billions of dollars
yeah OP, minimalism is just a meme....... a pretty big one everyone falls for.........
> i hate arch because i can't manually partition something
>>53606746
>>53606788
Badass af
>>53606732
It's still relatively minimal compared to most distributions, just not compared to ones like Gentoo or Debian-minimal
>>53606732
Arch followed the road of cancer as soon as they removed their /arch/setup install script. It's now a gentoo meme. So fuck it, it's shit.
>>53606732
Ok time to switch then. Gentoo, Debian, Fedora or Void?
I'd love to use Gentoo but I'm not sure if I want to waste precious battery cycles on compilation
Debian has a retarded release cycle plus the "ian" part suicided.
Fedora has a shit name
Void is obscure
>>53606913
>Debian
Discussion over. Install.
>>53606913
openSUSE tumbleweed might be for you.
Rolling release, stable as fuck, reasonably new packages and its non autistic.
>>53606746
>>53606913
Alpine
>>53606976
Different anon here
Tried tumbleweed a few months ago, encountered broken dependencies within my first two days of usage
Has something changed about it in recent months?
>>53606913
>Fedora has a shit name
t. Anony "never worked in corporate environment" moose
>>53607034
Dunno, never had such issues and I use it on 3 machines...
>>53606822
>> i hate arch because i can't manually partition something
But I use Gentoo, kiddo.
>>53608798
But Gentoo's an even bigger waste of time OP
>>53608831
Objectively false, especially if your goal is a hardened system.
>>53606913
>Ok time to switch then.
>Being this autistic about a spam post.
Kill yerself.
>>53608914
>Objectively
>>>https://www.reddit.com/
Dev mad about systemd dependencies.
Film at eleven.
>>53606990
>>53609161
ayyy lmao
Well I'm a developer and since Arch is easy for developers, it fits my needs.
>>53609161
Since when is objectivity a reddit thing? Fuck, I've been here too long. I've become so much of an oldfag that I overflowed into becoming a newfag again.
>>53609300
Easy for Arch developers, not users that happen to be developers, retard.
>>53609686
Are you implying developers aren't users?
You're a retard.
>>53609686
How is Arch easier for developers? What can you do on Arch that you can't do on any other Linux distro?
>>53609748
>Are you implying developers aren't users?
>not users that happen to be developers
Fuck me, I knew /g/ was dropping in quality but holy shit, it's like perma-summer in here.
>>53609814
Have a simple build system (Gentoo is an exception).
>>53609841
Okay, so minimalism. Fine, I get that. Anything else? Because developers tend to enjoy fully-featured operating systems and bloated IDE's anyways, so the minimalism thing isn't that important to a lot of them.
>>53609890
What minimalism? Simple does not mean minimal. It means fucking simple.
>Because developers tend to enjoy fully-featured operating systems
Arch is one.
>bloated IDE's
A lot, if not most, don't.
>so the minimalism thing isn't that important to a lot of them
Build system has nothing to do with IDEs.
I was going to switch to Gentoo until I found pic related, it's the best of both worlds now. I love Arch.
>>53609948
So Arch isn't actually easier for developers. Got it
>>53610036
It's easier for developers, it might be harder for code monkeys.
Its NONIGGER Linux or its nothing.
>>53610050
How is a simple build easier for developers, versus, say Windows that they don't have to install themselves via a command line, and is familiar with no learning curve?
>>53610076
I was comparing Arch to other distros, as >>53609814 asked about that.
I didn't have Windows in mind. Windows is light years behind anything else, even Minix.
>>53610140
I'm an Arch user by the way, and I'm really gay for it, like REALLY GAY for it. I was just wondering how it's better for developers, if at all.
>>53610249
They do minimal fucking with packages. So you don't have to take distro specific problems, patches, bugs and whatnot into account.
>>53609104
it's not a spam post though, anon. More like an official statement. And written by a "trusted user and archwiki admin". He sounds like a total dick. Daniel Whoeveryouare, if you're reading this, fuck you.
Time to switch distro!
Void, Alpine, or Gentoo? (I don't want to spend a lot of time maintaining my system after initial setup, that's my only criteria)
>>53612256
Fedora.
which would be a good option to start with linux?
>>53606831
The triangle is like a stupid cult cape.
>>53612359
Manjaro. Ubuntu if you want better documentation.
>>53606732
Daily reminder that trashing a linux distro because of a developer's butthurt induced tantrum is a retard.
>>53612335
Also
NO SYSTEMD/BOTNET/CUM PLZ
>>53606913
>Debian has a retarded release cycle plus the "ian" part suicided.
>Fedora has a shit name
If those are your reasons for not using those distros you should get out of your moms basement more often
