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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The difference is that Arch is pretty bare bones compared to most other mainstream distributions, and that’s it’s appeal. The lack of everything leaves a lot of space to grow and develop it to your taste rather than someone else’s. It also allows you to express your opinions on software more than other distributions by virtue of it.
The elitism’s from the community of people who believe that somehow using Arch makes them inherently better. It’s an immature take that IMO isn’t even all that correct as Arch has became pretty user-friendly with all it’s documentation. If they wanted to brag they should’ve used Gentoo.
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