Meet the man behind Ubuntu MATE
I was an Arch Linux user by this time and happily using GNOME3, but I created a custom Arch Linux image with MATE to install on my family’s computers. They had their familiar desktop environment back, but the MATE builds on Arch were incomplete and somewhat buggy at that time. I started contributing upstream to fix MATE issues, which ultimately led to me becoming a core member of the MATE team and an Arch Linux TU maintaining MATE Desktop. This helped improve MATE, and wedded bliss was restored. Win!
Sadly, Arch Linux is an attention whore. Trying to keep multiple Arch Linux computers ticking over from a distance was a burden. Some family members didn’t take to Arch Linux and stopped using their computers altogether. Not good. There were even rumors of Apple Macs. I was facing the same problem. My family might reject Linux.
>>54417030
Ubuntu for family.
Arch for friends.
It's that simple really.
Arch is literally cancer
>>54417030
nice source faggot
>>54417030
>installing anything other than completely preconfigured distros on family idiots' computers
>using a bloated de with arch
You brought this upon yourself
The /g/ memes were true after all
>>54417111
Moron who installed Arch on tech illiterate family members' computers detected
Remember when Debianfags used to be all "lol Ubuntu is for noobs and Arch is for faggots!"? Now that Debian got cucked so hard, it looks like they moved to Ubuntu, and are now just crying about Arch, still jelly over our superiority.
>>54417111
Is Arch still popular? I remember everyone called it out for the shit it is in 2008, then a few years later the kids who wanted to be seen as 1337 hackers started singing its praises and it ended up getting really popular. I haven't really been here in some years though.
>>54417336
Arch isn't nearly as bad as it used to be.
Any mention of it breaking Xorg or just breaking in general are memes of the past that inexperienced people like to spout to try and fit in.
>>54417030
How many times is this cancer going to be posted
>>54417746
I believe this is the second time in total and the first time today.
>>54417336
Same. Dunno what happened. It's always been shit.
>>54417715
That's what I've been hearing recently. Wouldn't hurt to install it in a VM for kicks, I guess.
>>54417030
>ARCH LINUX ALMOST DESTROYED A MAN'S MARRIAGE
That's nothing, have you heard of ReiserFS?
my parents use arch without mate
>>54417140
/thread
>>54420064
>implying a mail order whore Russian brides matter
>using arch with a DE
Topkek!
