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Why go through the trouble to use Arch? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Horsey@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?

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[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The thing stopping me from using Arch is that most programs come out as debs and you have to wait for them to show up in the AUR. Example: when Mullvad VPN first came out it was only available as a deb. How long did it take to show up in the AUR? Who made that available? Was it the Mullvad folks or someone else? That's the kind of thing that concerns me.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

This is me talking out of my ass a but since I do not do it, but you can create your own AUR packages pretty easily. If you have the Deb, you could be rocking it in Arch too.

On Chimera Linux, I do make my own packages. Just so easy.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So on arch can you choose to run the deb anyway and get updates through the package manager, or is it that only AUR applications are the main application type? Or can you use both?

I have a number of apps that are super small teams/individual made that I can’t expect them to care about the AUR. What do you do in the case that an app developer doesn’t use the AUR?