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2026-03-31 00:28 UTC

I've been fully daily driving Linux for about 15 years now, and for me it's almost all Arch now. I started out distro-hopping between Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Slack, etc, but once I found Arch (and spent two weeks getting it installed, booted, and customized exactly to my liking) I was finally at home. I know the meme. I'm not here to claim superiority, or diminish the value of other perfectly good distros. I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc. What I love about Arch is the lack of bloat. You get precisely what you ask for, no more, no less. You can legitimately run htop and *recognize* literally every program, and know if something's wrong immediately. Every one of my Arch boxes is a perfect little snowflake, suited to exactly the task(s) I built it for. And if there was anything I had to learn or configure along the way? That's just the journey, man. I have been eyeballing NixOS though...

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  • @VocationConfining@piefed.social 2026-03-31 01:13

    I just used NixOS daily for maybe a month? I really love how it's designed, but I had to give up because there were just so many small fixes I had to do and I found myself banging my head against the wall when I couldn't build something that depended on python-tk. You will see this criticism around a lot, but the documentation just isn't there yet. If you try to search for a fix, the packages have changed how they're configured since a solution was posted or they depend on a Nix flake which 50% of searches say not to use because it's experimental and 50% are all in on flakes. I have since moved back to Arch, but I've started to use the nix package manager for some cases since you can on-demand non-permanently install a package.

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  • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2026-03-31 06:16

    > I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc. "You're cool, you're cool, ***screw you tho*** , you're cool..." XD

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  • @cole@lemdro.id 2026-04-01 08:08

    exact same story as I. have also been eyeballing NixOS lol. big time investment for me though

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