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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If you will, consider a built computer/laptop a house, and the os the furniture within that house and the programs you run being decorations.
In this analogy a Mac is a small fully furnished apartment in NY, with fancy custom furniture.
A prebuilt with preinstalled Windows is a property brothers style renovation. Drab, bland, grey, overpriced… How white people spice their food.
A custom built PC with Windows would range from a regular house to a McMansion you dragged your furniture into. It may have been built by someone else, and be a bit questionable but you’re used to it. There’s an eclectic mix of new and old ass furniture. Somehow it works, still. Some of the decorations only look good in combination with this furniture and this is the main reason many still keep it.
A custom built PC with *insert linux distro here* is the same house as above, but you had someone else handle your furniture. Decorations are a bit hit and miss, but with some rearranging you manage to get your old decor looking somewhat decent in the new space. Depending on distro, you might have had to build some of the furniture by yourself after the fact.
Arch is like having an empty house, going to the IKEA and picking which furniture you want and assembling it yourself. You get to pick and choose everything and then follow the clear instructions made by someone else to assemble it. This is the one of the very few accomplishments in your life and you feel disproportionally proud of it. In the end you get a mish mash of styles and almost nothing actually works as a stylistic whole. Almost none of your decor works. You pretend you don’t see it, and go around bragging like you’re a carpenter who made 100% of his own custom furniture.
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