• Eyedust@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Story time.

    I learned Debian-based distros back in high school from a college tech class. After leaving school and getting my first job, I built my first computer (after two DOA boards and much gnashing of teeth). I sat happily in my Windows bubble for a long time.

    Years later I had a catastrophic failure when trying to get clever and unlocking my system32 folder to do some tinkering. I’d had enough of Windows. Thought Pop! OS looked really nice.

    But we sometimes have that one friend. Arch. Every time I talked about my OS or showed him my clean setup, Arch. If I had a problem with packages. Pacman. AUR. Arch.

    I was going nuts. Did he care I was running Pop! OS with KDE Plasma using Kubuntu backports to jury rig a later version? No. Arch.

    After a long and grueling battle, after slogging through mountains of unsolicited Arch memes in my DMs, after vehemently defending Debian, I will only say this:

    I use Arch, btw.

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      2 months ago

      Wait a bit more and you’ll go back to Debian when you get tired of failing to boot after an update.

      Source: personal experience

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      2 months ago

      I use Arch, btw.

      Serious posting: I got tired of making backports for Debian and Ubuntu. I use Arch BTW.

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        2 months ago

        Rolling distros are just great 😍 arch for nerds, endeavourOS for nerds without too much time and Tumbleweed for the latest and greatest but stable and OpenSuse slow roll for even more stability, I guess

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    2 months ago

    My current theory on the whole meme:

    1. Someone in high school debate class is tasked with arguing in favor of Flat Earth theory or moon landings were faked.
    2. Intrigued by the ease with which they manipulate people into believing outlandish concepts, they try talking people into believing more untenable ideas like “grip tape is much better at holding reaper pepper hot sauce on the surface of a dildo than barbed wire.”
    3. Person finds that limits exist and tries to come up with something more reasonable – becomes champion for Arch Linux.
    4. People take them seriously and it takes off…

    DISCLAIMER: I have tried neither grip tape and hot sauce covered dildos nor Arch Linux but you get the concept I’m trying to convey I hope.

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      2 months ago

      Give it a few years and the I use nixOS memes will replace the Arch ones completely.

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    The crow is people making fun of using arch. Becaus the phrase “I use arch btw” is said orders of magnitude more by those people.