Arch Linux. What makes it different from the other distributions? Why is there some weird elitism paralleled by disgust around it?

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Arch Linux. What makes it different from the other distributions? Why is there some weird elitism paralleled by disgust around it?

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Arch linux might be the most well-documented product in computer history. (ok that’s setting the bar kinda low but bear with me) The documentation is so good that even users of other distros use it to figure out how to do a certain thing or fix various issues.

The flip side is that the installer does nothing that other installers do automatically. The documentation/manual is good. but to get a working system, you *have to* use the documentation and manually do many configuration and setup steps of the installation.

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