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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True ELI5:
It’s like how people get super elitist over camping.
Arch is the equivalent of someone refusing to live in a house they haven’t personally logged the trees for and built by hand.
If you want to learn how operating systems work, and you don’t mind taking a computer out of action for a bit, it’s definitely worth the experience!
Otherwise, unless you already have years of know-how and stubbornness behind you, every little task is enormous effort, and you’ll find yourself sleeping under leaves as a “temporary solution, before you have a UI”.
Seriously, I tried it on my MacBook a few years ago, and I was using a text browser through all of it. It took me 2 weeks to figure out how to get the WiFi working
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