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

submitted 6 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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[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

yay! Everything is up to date and working better than ever. Manjaro and Endeavour seem okay, too. Sounds like SteamOS 3 will be Arch-based, which would be great news!

Oh, also, AUR is life. And worth mentioning, KDE Wayland, NVidia 3090, Pipewire, and UKI generation. 👌

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 5 days ago

SteamOS 3 is arch based but that doesnt mean its anything like arch. It builds from a snapshot of arch and ships that to users as an immutable. So it will be extremely out of date compared to arch.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

SteamOS already is Arch based.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wayland is a great example.

Debian user? You may have spent the last two years complaining that Wayland is not ready, that NVIDIA does not work, and that Wayland is too focussed on GNOME. You may move to XFCE if GNOME removes X11 support.

Arch user? Wayland is great and Plasma 6 works flawlessly. There have not been any real NVIDIA problems in a year or two. Maybe you have been enjoying COSMIC, Hyprland, or Niri.

[–] c10l@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have been using Plasma 6 on Wayland on Debian for way longer than 2 years with no issues.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

Awesome.

Not installing Plasma from the default repos on Debian Stable though obviously.

When I say “Debian”, I mean “Debian Stable” which is what I think most people mean when they Debian without qualification.