(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).

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    14 hours ago

    In my case - 90% of Linux issues eventually lead to an Arch Wiki article any way. Might as well give it a go, but I’m too lazy and too much a noob to try the real deal.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 hours ago

      I started out with Ubuntu and went straight to Arch. I knew absolutely nothing. I followed the installation guide to a T, and it worked. I didn’t understand anything I did. Then I installed it again, in a new computer. I understood a lot more the second time.

      You don’t need to know what you’re doing in order to succeed here. There’s a lot of handholding and learning as you go. 🙂

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        10 hours ago

        That’s exactly my experience. Now I understand most things I do, and I smile at this ‘installing Arch is difficult.’ No, it’s not. I can install it without any help from the wiki, by memory. As I understand what I’m doing and why. It’s not the difficult part. The difficult part is to make it yours.

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          4·
          8 hours ago

          I still can’t install from memory 😆, even if I understand every step now. The reason is quite simple for me: I install it so rarely because it’s so stable. I only ever install it on new hardware. Every computer I have has basically only seen a single Arch install. 👌

          • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Fair point! I just did many installs recently (a bit of a long story), and at some point just stopped even following the wiki. But if I can afford it, I simply clone my entire system, and tweak from there. Takes very little time, and I have a complete clone of my perfectly working system.

            Also, theoretically, I don’t even need a backup of the system, if I have at least two laptops with mostly same system. I have, one at home with broken keyboard and no battery, which servers as my home computer connected to a display. And another one is for on the go.