(No provocation)

I see these reasons:

  • newbie
  • lazy (don’t wanna edit config files etc.)
  • unique features (like assistant/toolbox, some optimizations like in cachyos)
  • wanna check how different systems are set up (that’s rather distrohopping)

Personally, I used manjaro i3 when I was beigginer and wanted to see how tiling WM should be configured (check out ranger config, for example). But after some time, I don’t see reasons why not to just customize pure arch (same with debian and debian-based distros).

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    1·
    24 hours ago

    Definitely, fully agree. Gentoo I can imagine is more maintenance than Arch, even. At least a lot more waiting around. 😅 But maybe that’s a misconception, too!

    But yeah, definitely use whatever you like. I just want to clear up the misconception that Arch is heavy on maintenance. It most definitely is not, unless you want it to be.

    • CallMeAl (like Alan)@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      I originally switched to Gentoo when I got my first AMD64 workstation. Gentoo was the only distro with full support and optimization for a little while.

      a lot more waiting around

      For a big build I would kick it off at bed time :)

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 hours ago

        Ah, neat. I assume it had early support since you compile the packages yourself?

        And tell me if you will: did it ever occur that a build had failed when you woke up? 😅 Or maybe builds didn’t really fail? How common was that?