Why Use Arch
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>overzealous autistic fan boys
>"you'll learn how Linux REALLY works!" When it's literally just configuring a package manager and letting scripts do the rest
>offers nothing that minimal net installs already offered for other distros don't
>muh bleeding edge packages!! when you can just install directly from the upstream source in any distro
>only reason to use it is the aur, which is full of broken and unmaintained packages and isn't monitored at all, most "packages" are just a bash script to download the package and it's install script from GitHub
>aur is far worse than Open Build Service, which actually lets you package binaries and programs for multiple distros
It's not the worst distro, but there's nothing it offers that makes it worth using over any other distros and it has the worst fucking user base.
It all has to do with your attitude and what happened to you after high school or graduation. Not getting a job and not having anything to do REALLY fucks with you. You NEED something to fill that gap, or you WILL go insane. School filled this for you previously but now you are left with nothing.
The attitude when getting your first job, relates like this
>We're offering you a position at this IT related company, it may suck for a while but you have advancement even with no degree
And latex threads have proven there are shits out there who would unironically respond
>EXCUSE ME YOU USE .DOC I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WORKING AT YOUR COMPANY
I know it can be hard to get your first interview but it will come along and present itself, the point is that the same mentality that tells you to choose arch will make you forego the opportunity when it does arise. So you can never get out of this situation.
This is why you need a timesink like this, to fill up your schedule. If arch were eliminated tomorrow, it would be replaced with something else effectively the same. Arch is the less of two evils the other evil being being vocal and protesting about how all the companies you tried applying for don't use your obscure 80s shit software. You use arch when you've ruined yourself by saying no to opportunities, can't admit it, and need to forever "challenge" yourself with psuedo IT tasks that you could have gotten paid for to fix at the jobs you said no to. It's beautiful in a way, timesinks made by other dropouts for dropouts and it keeps the whole lot quiet.
>>54135991
i use it because it works perfectly fine with my pentium 4
>>54135991
Wow you're really mad that you couldn't even get past the installation.
Don't worry anon, keep trying to computer and reading and maybe one day you'll do it.
>>54136948
/thread
>>54136948
Oh my god.
>>54135991
so don't use it, OP
I started with ubuntu
then fedora
slackware
manjaro
and now I'm on arch
I think it's pretty good and eveyone should try different distributions
I don't plan leaving arch soon, but I know I will someday
Gentoo > Arch
>>54135991
I started using Arch because on every other distro I ended up on the Arch wiki sooner or later. So I figured I might as well get the genuine article the pages are about. Installing was fine but configuring wifi with wpa supplicant and troubleshooting systemd are fucking asscancer. A kernel update buried it (on virtualbox, fucked up the kernel modules, can't seem to be able to activate them through chroot and CBA to reinstall the whole base over again) and I ended up with Manjaro soon after. Comfiest distro I've ever used, but time will tell how it really stands up.
>>54136948
THIS
RIGHT IN THE FEELS
arch is completely fine.
>>54138185
> reasons to use linux
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>>54138185
Debian is harder than Arch
>>54136948
>timesink
> sudo pacman -Syu weekly
You're either a very busy man or typing with your toes.
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>>54138230
Now all we need is the picture of a fat guy saying how xorg.conf broke and we have the full set of pictures that are in every thread and there's no one who wouldn't know them by now.
People should use more energy for their memes.
>>54138303
u kno its bullshit ma man, right?
>>54135991
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>>54136948
Yes..
post more I love your brain.
>>54136948
Maybe this is why I use gentoo.
i will never gonna use arch anyway but. i felt for linux meme and install ubuntu. as i expected its shit! Gonna turn my perfect os win 8.1.
You guys are pathetic loser.
1. dislike people who are different
2. realize the world is inevitably becoming more multicultural
3. realize it will become harder and harder to find a place to live in where there aren't sandniggers/chinks/beaners everywhere
4. become apathetic
5. find ways to escape reality
6. Arch maintanence and kawaii moe-chan is more perfect than any pig disgusting 3d reality
>2016
>people still use arch
>>54138924
>win 8.1
>>54138550
No it really isn't. Debian doesn't even come with fucking sudo. It refuses to install nonfree drivers from its installer, even if it's for your wifi card. It's documentation is paltry at best, and god forbid if you attempt to install something from outside its repos.
>>54135991
Fuck off you autist
>>54138804
Manjaro doesn't have this problem :^)
>>54138303
>>54139045
>debian is harder than arch
I use Gentoo and even I laugh at you.
>>54139045
>>Debian doesn't even come with fucking sudo
su
adduser <yourname> sudo
reboot/logout
>>It refuses to install nonfree drivers from its installer, even if it's for your wifi card
That's why this link exists:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
>>It's documentation is paltry at best, and god forbid if you attempt to install something from outside its repos
I agree with you on the documentation, but a lot of Debian is just Ubuntu plus more extra steps in between. And installing from outside of the repos isn't even as bad as you're implying it is.
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>>54138775
Can someone tell me how people on /g/ got so mad and butthurt over Arch that they take the time to make comics about a distro they don't use?
inb4 'they started': We have these 'Arch sucks and Arch users try to shill it all the time' threads every other day, but I haven't seen a pro-arch thread even close to this mad in years.
(If you can link me one in the archive from the last 12 months that has any of the quotes attributed to arch users please, be my guest)
>>54138299
are basic reading and interpretation skills considered "hardcore" now?
>>54139183
Just check out yesterday's Arch hate threads in the archive. There were tons of Arch shills shilling their shit.
>>54137004
>Pentium 4
>2016
poor anon :(
>>54139151
>su
>adduser <yourname> sudo
>reboot/logout
Just more pointless extra steps for what should've been already there ootb
>http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
>unofficial, tucked in the most ass deep corner of their webpage
>And installing from outside of the repos isn't even as bad as you're implying it is.
It's not hard to initialize... but it will fuck your OS up real good with those antediluvian dependencies it carries.
>>54139045
>using sudo instead of su
>not caring about freedom
Stay mad ubuntard.
>>54139321
>get cucked by the GPshLong so hard you can't even shitpost on an indian street shitting imageboard
>"b-but I'm free!"
>>54139183
t. AIDF
>>54136948
Damn, like a truck
>>54136948
Video of gaymens did the job for me.
>>54139270
>Arch hate threads are the only place where you find pro-arch autism
That was kind of the point I was going to make. Filter time I guess
>>54139517ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
>>54137454
>Gentoo > Arch
Exactly, well said.
>>54138922
>maybe this is why I use Gentoo
This is exactly why you use Gentoo.
>>54139081
>I use Gentoo and even I laugh at you
I agree, he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about
>>54141174
I forgot to refresh my homepage whoops
> People actually think setting up Arch is hard.
Literally the only thing I did was partition my disks, format them, install base packages and then pacman -S plasma konsole. Additional software I just installed and works out of the box thanks to Freedesktop standards.
I really don't understand why people think Arch is so much work. Is it just a bunch of whiny people failing the first two steps because they aren't reading the wiki? What?
>>54141174
>>54141220
Rock on my gentoo brother
Gentoo ftw
>>54142062
Amen
>>54135991
I just use Arch because I like it
You're really upset by that, aren't you?
>>54138932
I hope I never turn into this guy. I'm glad my parents took me traveling with them
>>54141174
>>54141220
Autistic retard spotted
>>54142180
>calls people who install Gentoo autistic out of jealousy cause he/she can't figure out how to install it
Sit there and cry bitch
>>54137540
This.
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>>54137089
>two different examples of secret club in this thread
Only one we're missing is a slackwarefag. Would some contrarian step forward to acknowledge his presence to us, and let it be known?
Ubuntu/Debian/RedHat/Fedora/Everything else don't have this problem.
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>>54142813
HA
Us 'gentoomen' have the ability to customize our ladders ;-)
What the hell IS Gentoo? I always thought it was just a meme. What's the benefit? Why is it so hard to install?
>>54142888
Gentoo is life;
Completely customizable, right down to the kernel
>>54135991
>>54142888
Previous iteration of ricers, special snowflakes, "do it yourselfers" that everyone hated, ca. 2004 - 2006. Funroll loops site has it all, but is dated as they have moved to arch. You can still be contrarian to the contrarians by ironically using gentoo now.
Proof:
>Gentoo user meets a windows user: hahah windrone, ignored
>Gentoo meets ubuntu user: fucking ubuntu scrub
>Gentoo meets arch: ...FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUU FAGGOT IM BETTER THAN YOU
>>54142958
>https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/
Thank you for the comedy
>>54135991
It's fast /thread
>>54135991
on Rpi - literally best distro, Raspbian is filled to the teeth with shit i don't need.
on my server - Wanted to learn it. Wanted muh minimalism, for reasons i couldn't tell you (probably autism) - If i get pissed at it enough i'll switch but so far everything i've needed for it has been in the package system or installed easily w/o problems- Plex, Docker, Mpd, Icecast, GCC, Node...
>>54142958
R E K T
>>54135991
Is this girl, skinny Vanessa Blake?
>>54136948
This hits to close to home, anon.
>>54142218
>Missing the point
Wew lad go see a real doctor
>>54142958
R E K T
E
K
T
>>54143330
Forgot my pic
>>54143371
>Vanessa Blake
Gentoo installer detected
>>54141174
requesting homepage
>>54143390
>Not embracing High Test, chubby pornstars with phat asses.
What 3DPD do arch users like?
>>54137004
What Network applet is that in your taskbar? Currently using Arch XFCE too but my taskbar looks like shit
>>54143478
Lexi Belle
Gianna Michaels
aletta ocean
>>54135991
>>54136948
Stay butthurt m8
>this thread
It's so funny that /g/ is unironically berating Arch users even though many of you probably used Arch before falling for the Gentoo meme in the first place.
>INSTALL GENTOO
I still remember the old Arch shilling threads. It's now unironic shilling of Gentoo. You all fell for a MEME, TWICE. Congratulations.
>>54143814
Actually you're just mad cause you fail at following directions
>timesink OS
Well, Arch is sure a timesink OS for its haters, considering how muck time they lose bashing an OS they don't like.
