Arch Linux Is A Mainstream Distro

Why do linux people hate linux projects so much?

Stop fighting each other and start working together!

One thing that is really surprising to me is how popular Arch Linux is according to Steam. But more generalized polls (those outside of Linux communities) still suggest that Ubuntu is much more popular.

>uses wayland
not an issue
>breaks grub
not an issue. do steam deck even use grub? I think it uses systemd boot, EFI
>manjaro makes more sense
I'm not up to date on what manjaro does. last time I used it in 2019 and back in the day it was the buggier and aur incompatible arch. What is dicference that would make it easier to valve and I assume what matt meant: the users

I mean... if not GNU contribution Linux would never be what it is today, just look at it's history, especially the history of it's beginning. To your surprise I'm not one of those people I don't have problem when someone calls it Linux but still objectively I strongly belive it would be much more accurate to call Linux GNU/Linux or even better something like GNU+Linux. GNU shouldn't be omitted, it's like forgetting who you truly are.

At this point I think there are more windows users who know about arch than windows users who know about debian.

I call it GNU/Linux, but I never even tried using Hurd. Don't even know to which extend it works, I'd rather use RedoxOS instead.

lovin these clips brodie keep it up

The Arch wiki is a fantastic resource. Whenever you encounter an issue on a different distro, chances are good someone using Arch encountered it.
If you use Arch, you're not going to have a good time.

I'm old and all that and still think using the "GNU" is silly. To me it's Linux, and as such rocks all the same!🐧🐧

BTW: I'm on Arch.😜

any distro can be turned into rolling release or stable release cycle distro as soon as you fork the repos

with the Steamdeck OS updates, is it using steam as the downloader too? If so, unlike Xbox and Playstation ones it supports revolutionary concepts like delta encoded transfers. By revolutionary I mean technology we've had through rsync since 1996.

Gaming on Linux is so easy today with Proton especially with Steam Proton.
I'm a developer and gaming was the only thing keeping from switching completely to Linux.

It's just so easy, pick a distro with your drivers baked in and install Steam, that's it - pick the compatibility layer for your game and play.
Bonus points if you're using a linux native file system, sometime loading is actually faster on Linux.

I remember when I made the complete switch to Linux, it was when Elden Ring came out.
The game is amazing but some of the loading screens took like 10 seconds for me on a 3060.
As soon as I made the switch to Linux with Ext4 it dropped to 5 seconds or so, I specifically remember this because I couldn't believe it at first, but it does in consistently - loading from disk to memory is just very fast in Linux.

Please get Erik from arcolinux

Arch package manager and repository literally destroyed Ubuntu PPA and Debian outdated repos. and Arch is easier to indtall nvidia drivers. (Opensuse and FEDORA I AM LOOKING TO YOU grrrr!)

Who knows, even ReactOS x64 has more advanced development than Hurd...

I've recently ran into a video which discusses how software minimalism can sometimes become a "behavioral addiction" where you keep looking to reduce the number of packages or remove systemd or use suckless just for the sake of it and waste time for no reason basically and i thought i actually had something like this at some point. I think this goes along well with thinking about switching from your perfectly running linux to bsd/plan9/hurd/opensolaris or whatever

I use arch btw

"They break Grub a lot". Never had it break on Arch ever.

As someone who has come from Windows, Arch is extremely stable.

GNU/Linux cough :P I say linux too, but the proper name is GNU/Linux though for respect to RMS as we are using GNU a lot on the system and it should be known as well.

Good point about the image based systems and background updates. Fedora needs some way to use very little resources, because currently such an update makes your machine go hot!

I'll never understand people using grub with Arch. Especially if they do not use dual boot

why use many word, when few word do trick.

"I have 200 Steam games that I've never played". Yep.

At least on ps5 if you leave it on rest mode, it will update on the background.

I've used QNX (which is a commercial variant of the Mach microkernel that GNU Hurd is trying to implement), and it absolutely rocks. All drivers loaded, GUI running, all apps and services hot and it would use less than 1gb of RAM. Hurd just doesn't have any momentum since the Linux kernel became widespread. I think the initial implementation suffered from a team of devs with lots of different focuses, and no clear "vision". /shrug

I would enjoy writing code on a Mach microkernel again. Yes, I've been using Linux and alternate *nixes since the early 90s.

Sounds like we need to interject for a moment