I don’t think this post was written by ChatGPT. I do think the human who wrote it uses ChatGPT so much they’re adopting its mannerisms.
OP never finished an Arch install
This implies an Arch install can ever legitimately be considered finished.
You could argue that the first boot into an installed kernel is a finished install
What a chaotically turbulent take.
Why is a ‘finished’ install framed as an universally superior goal?
What about you? When did you choose stability over the rolling release?
This is such sloppy engagement baiting. If it was just a hot take shitting all over one of the larger linux communities, that would be one thing, but to follow it up with a “let me know in the comments” just makes it all feel disingenuous and like somebody is being sponsored by NordVPN or Incogni to post their ragebait
Hilariously outdated take.
ex arch user for 5 yrs
current fedora user since 2024
i’ve been getting a lot of “recommended” youtube videos on gentoo and nixos
send help plezz
wtf is this bullshit
and more importantly, why is it so condescending?!
It’s meant to be an attempt at humor/sarcasm/engagement bait I think.
Why would someone do that on the internet? I thought this was a safe place Q.Q
nixCraft (at cyberciti <dot> biz) is a site that has been slop publishing tutorials for everything ever possible with common unixy commands. And also shit like “30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered in 2013”. It often calls Unix “Linux”, other times it uses both “Unix/Linux” for some reason, and sometimes it even says “on BSD, MacOS” for flags that only function on GNU coreutils. It started pre-AI, so it’s like clickhole but for “installed Fedora yesterday” people (although I would imagine most traffic being “I’ve been using this for 24 years and forgot some flag”).
I’ve made ~6 Arch systems at this point. None of them have randomly broken on me, none of them have broken after an update and to be honest have been solid. I have no idea where the narrative of Arch being able to destroy itself at any point came from, but I don’t think it’s true at all.
Its because people grab it randomly and then blindly install off the AUR
I was nervous to switch to arch at first because of all the jokes, but it’s honestly been pretty slick. My servers are all on Debian but I put arch on my daily driver and the most “tomogachi tinkering” I’ve done has been Bluetooth nonsense, which is a general problem on most distros.
My arch system is so stable it’s boring. Year after year, just runs. Doesn’t slow down, doesn’t install crapware.
So I dont know. I’m happy with it.
The beauty of Linux
to open a python code
This tells you everything you need to know about who wrote this.
That’s not a meme BTW, why is this even here.
Sadly yes. I do write python code myself but in the end C/C++ is my home. When I talk to python friends they are like: I can either use this library and make it work or spend hours to make inferior version of the same thing. Bitch I told you to look at queue and that a circular buffer could be an option of it were not JavaScript for faster stack allocation, and they chose to cache it. Sure let’s spend time on reading somebody’s documentation instead of using one of the well known data structure and have “object’s” lifetime being time based rather than as needed. The program requires data of 10 objects loaded at all times. Never less never more with first in first out and once it’s out it never returns.
15 year old install, one issue with crashes because of a regression in nvidia drivers that was solved after a month, I just rolled back till then.
Idk wtf you imagine people doing.
I imagine a lot of people have spiderwebs of dependancies and obscure abandoned projects that collect dust and eventually break everything. If you stick to maintained projects or learn anything about package management at all, youll likely have no issues ever.
I just type “yay” into terminal every month or so when im bored
The first time debian oldstable broke a package after an incremental update, i reconsidered my long running hard stance against arch
Updated my endeavour install last night from 6.18 to 7.1 without issue: daily -Syu is for the birds
Arch really isn’t that bad when you’re not mucking around with the AUR. Debian is a little overkill for most normal users in respect to stability but it’s good people have the freedom to do whatever the heck they want with their machines.
I think if I was running a server at home for anything more than just wanting to tinker, I’d probably use Debian. But even then, I think if I had a server at home it’d be just to have a server lol.
Ok so at first I thought it was actually kind of cute and endearing but by the end I think that guy is an asshole
Stay away from the AUR and arch is fine. Calm down
But the AUR is (was?) the much tauted reason to use it! I had a pretty bad time with Arch and its derivatives, but I wonder if Arch + flatpak + distrobox (steamOS, basically?) could be great these days. Probably.
Fuck the AUR. The documentation is the reason to use arch.
The Arch docs are great, I read them all the time. But I don’t even use arch, they are pretty universal.
Isn’t this exactly what OP is saying though? Some people don’t want to have to read docs to use their computer. When was the last time a MacOS user opened the MacOS docs (whatever the hell that is)
I use ubuntu and I don’t think I ever read docs
Actually, I had to remove snap once.
Granted, I am and was familiar with the basics of linux due to having a raspberry pi.
Arch user (btw) here. I use xorg and a custom tiling window manager. I had 0 breakage regarding my config. Nvidie fked me 2 times and grub was broken 1 time. Thats it. 10 years 3 chroot. Pacman runs when I feel like it. I used two weeks to configure my setup, and I hardly ever change a thing nowdays.
Tried Hyperland on an “old” thinkpad, each update broke something. So no thanks, I’ll stick to mature, battle tested components, where my config and sanity will remain stable, and leave the tamagotchi for ricers/thinkerers.
