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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I was a Linux sys admin in college and took a lot of OS courses and such back then as well. I haven’t had to use Linux professionally for a while (unless you wanna count being an android developer as working with Linux). I mostly mess with it as a hobby. If I had to explain like you were 5 I would say it’s kind of like the first time you tried coloring with colored pencils instead of crayons in the sense that you now have way better control of the coloring process (getting to pick and choos exactly what packages to load and things like that). Eventually you get good enough at art that you realize whatever you wanted to do with colored pencils you can basically accomplish with crayons or whatever else even if some of the details end up a bit different (if you know how to use arch there is no reason why you can’t load up a bare bones version of any distro and build it up the same way you would arch) . Eventually you become a working adult and realize none of that matters and everyone just uses pencils anyways (the second this kinda stuff becomes your job the reliability of just SSHing to a remote machine from a mac or windows machine usually outweighs whatever benefits you have of running Linux straight on your machine) obviously the art metaphor kinda falls apart at the end there but idk this stuff would be kinda hard to explain to a 5 year old.
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