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 is the distro equivalent of a Framework laptop. It’s pretty much modular. It comes with just about the bare minimum to be able to install stuff. Imagine if your phone only came with a store app, didn’t even include a launcher or anything, just setting and store. Its appeal is having that clean slate. The downside is you need to know how to setup everything. Like people mentioned, it’s not the only example of this kind of distro, but it is the most accesible bare bones distro for most users. Another one is Alpine which is very stripped down, usually used for images that run on top of an existing host, so you don’t want to allocate gigabytes per image if you are spinning up a dozen or two just enough to run the program.
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