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What's "the new Arch"? Alpine or Void? (lemmy.zip)

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What's "the new Arch"? [Open to interpretation]

Alpine or Void?

Other?

Why?

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What does this mean exactly? Arch is Arch. Just because it got somewhat mainstream and anyone can install it using an Arch-based distro didn't change that. If the complaint is systemd, there is Artix for example. Without other Arch-installer distros Arch wouldn't be popular like this. If you mean older Arch, there is possibly Nix but it's different than Arch if you compare it to Alpine and Void.

Regarding Alpine, it won't get mainstream like Arch did because of musl, at least for now. It's possible to install stuff as flatpaks of course, especially saying this for proprietary programs if one needs them, but they mostly target glibc.

However, time has changed. The people who use Arch today and the people who used Arch back then are not the same, not entirely at least. So, do you mean the distro itself or the mindset of people who use/d it? Because you would get different answers for both.