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.
I use the glorious Hannah Montana OS, btw
You mean Miley/Hannah Montana Linux
I(t) came in like a wrecking ball (into my life)
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
This is the answer.
Wait, you mean after a simple kernel update? Not a release upgrade obviously because arch uses a rolling release cycle?
No way to live.
Yup. There was that bad GRUB update as well.
You can usually just rollback, but it’s annoying to weigh whether -Syu or -S is more likely to break your system.
I use Arch, btw.
Serious posting: I got tired of making backports for Debian and Ubuntu. I use Arch BTW.
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
I genuinely don’t hear about people using arch too often anymore.
They are too busy fixing broken dependencies.
Not in real life but I have yet to not find one in the comments of anything Linux related.
My current theory on the whole meme:
- Someone in high school debate class is tasked with arguing in favor of Flat Earth theory or moon landings were faked.
- 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.”
- Person finds that limits exist and tries to come up with something more reasonable – becomes champion for Arch Linux.
- 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.
Reading between the lines here, does that mean you HAVE tried barbed wire hot sauce dildos?
Birds Aren’t Real, Flying Spaghetti Monster, and probably a few other things started out as jokes and people started taking it seriously. But Arch probably didn’t start as joke given how gate-keeperish the linux community was at the time.
I use glorious nixos BTW
Give it a few years and the I use nixOS memes will replace the Arch ones completely.
I wonder how much shit I would get if I was to declare Arch the veganism of Linux 🤔
Do I get bonus points for being vegan and using Arch?
That depends: are you holier than thou and bigoted about either? If not, then sure!
Thankfully, no. The only thing I’m evangelical about is the ISO 8601 date standard.
I’m more into .cue and .bin dates but then again, I’m very old 😁
I’d go with cross-fit here personally, or rock climbing
Eating lentils off a tractor tire halfway up a rock wall?
They’re kinda the same, in that people joke about them constantly talking about it when they really don’t, and if you try to push back against the stereotype, you only feed into it
And also in that most people don’t care either way unless you’re preachy and arrogant about it 🤷
You’d be right tho.
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.
Sure it is…
Still relevant
I use Arch BTW
How did you know? I do use arch btw.
I use Fedora BTW
I’m an ubuntu nerd 🤓
Ew
Keep your filthy perversions to yourself, young man
Arch & gentoo users are like vegan irl
Im a vegan arch user btw
I’m a vegan and I’m pissed by all the people asking the same questions and making the same jokes all the time
You never met a vegan in real life, did you?