What's the point?

here's why linux will never grow past where it is now in one post. gatekeeping faggots who do things the inefficient way just to try and feel superior.

Couldn't they just add an explanation with the button and BTFO arch elitists?

install gentoo

It's not the same thing. To manually execute a command takes a very high IQ. Any brainlet could press a button next to the works of Isaac Newton without having a single clue what any of it means.

Poser
Go the full distance and use LFS or SourceMage or use Debian as a civilized man
Stop using Arch

Retards use it because reddit told them that it'd help them learn linux. In actuality, they've only learned how to copy/paste lines from the wiki, and received a systemd/pacstrap/pacman tutorial, all three of which are complete garbage. The AUR is a frankenstein, kind of like systemdicks.
Despite the obvious flaws in this distro, Arch users will defend it to the death, so they're almost like a breed of r/unixporn zealots.

Funnily enough, anyone who doesn't base their OS on a neofetch scrot won't use Arch for the simple reason that its toolset is absolute garbage, so that's an interesting dynamic.

Arch users are neither hobbyists nor professionals, just the next breed of pseuds.

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Better than being in the barn getting fucked by horses.

>won't use Arch for the simple reason that its toolset is absolute garbage
What do you mean by that? Never used Arch in depth (Debian Stable user here)

Nice trips btw

Pacman, the AUR, SystemD's ecosystem, among others, as well as what other software the distribution provides, would be considered its toolset. So, if you aren't using linux exclusively for reddit upvotes on desktop threads or r/unixporn, you most likely aren't ever going to waste your time with Arch.

being better than debian :^)

>all the salt itt

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>use arch for leet nurd cred
>realize leet nurd cred is worthless
>continue using arch anyway because it just werks

Best rolling + AUR. Tumbleweed is shit.
Not having an installer and general user retardation are just minor annoyances that you have to let go.

Arch Wiki is cool
Arch is an elaborate prank orchestrated by other distributions to channel the collective autism of Arch fags to help the rest of the Linux users via the Arch Wiki

Thanks Arch

Ubuntu's and fedora's upgrades will make your life more miserable than properly configured arch or other diy setup.
Also when something breaks you can just look up the wiki or manual pages, do your thing and move forward instead of thinking "hmm, why they use dnsmasq with netowrkmanager and why it's broken after waking up my pc..."

Arch isn't DiY.

I've used Antergos to test software I'm developing against newer libs that what reside in my main machine.
It's good for that.
But after I'm done testing, in the trash it goes.

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Ubuntu and Fedora update too often but Arch is even worse
I like that Arch let's you keep your system as simple or as complicated as you want but I don't want to deal with updates
Plus the package metadata and relations provided by Debian apt and aptitude are much better

I want my distribution boring that's why it's Debian Stable for me

By DYI I meant the fact that you have to install and configure stuff from scratch, without any predefined configurations/defaults etc.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Only two reasons to use arch: up to date packages, and convenience of using AUR.

If you grok GNU+Linux, installing arch isn't that hard.
If you're virtually clueless, it's extremely difficult.

this

whats the difference between arch and gentoo?

arch
>easy to install
>AUR
>best wiki known to mankind
>large community

gentoo
>no systemd
>pain in the ass to install
>all packages are compiled from source
>more configurable than arch

arch is autism and gentoo is asperger

It's for people who can't into Gentoo.
Install Gentoo.

>teaches you how to actually use linux
this is by far the stupidest point I have ever seen pushed by archtards

you'll learn by far more by maintaining a server over figuring out why your stupid anime rice isn't working

Thank you, OP.
Downloading openSUSE and will install it over arch.

>What's the point?
It's for noobs feeling superior while not being able to do the simplest stuff like

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as much as it pains me to admit, arch did get me familiar with installing without an installer but honestly when you're using arch you're just copy and pasting shit from the wiki but with gentoo it's a lot more hands on and overall a better learning experience and it's a better desktop distro but that's just my opinion and I know a lot would disagree

ITT: foxes & grapes

>pressing a button is low IQ
>pressing several buttons is high IQ

Do you even read your own words?

I am grape

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You can install Debian / Ubuntu without installer if you like that.

Underrated post.

even if you're a complete brainlet and know nothing about linux you can just follow the steps from the wiki and be done in 20 minutes

The best logo of all distros.

Daily reminder

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thanks to Jow Forums I can't unsee the fat guy now

The virgin Arch+i3 vs the chad Gentoo+dwm.

I knew that was possible but I wouldn't do it because debian 9 really disappointed me when it came to stabillity. the future looks bleak for debian
oh my god

I use it because it's small on size and doesn't contain a lot of packages I have to remove once I finish installation, the package manager is nice and easy to use, package naming is logical and not retarded like it is on Debian and Ubuntu, it has the latest versions of packages and doesn't wait 10 years before it even puts them on the freezing list, the maintainers are not stallmanites who sperg at the idea of proprietary packages and are fine with putting proprietary software in the official repositories, the AUR is nice and lets me get packages that smoothly integrate into my system without the autistic ./make && ./make install, it has very good support for bleeding edge things like the latest dxvk and wine, and it's also very stable and doesn't break.
To all the retards that claim it constantly breaks, they don't know nothing. It has only broken on me once when I cancelled a system upgrade midway as it was upgrading systemd, so you have to be a complete brainlet to break it.
The installation procedure could be improved however. It is stupid that you have to manually set your locale and timezone, they should include a script that does it automatically. Other than that change however, I don't know of *that* many improvements that could be made.

All in all, Arch is the best distro that's out there.

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This speaks more to the retardation of the ricing community than it does Arch users.

>this entire thread

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