Because Arch requires human sacrifice.
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Anything really polarizing can end up with a cult following. Just look at Rust.
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I don't really understand either. Where are the Gentoo and LFS elitists? It seams like there should be more of those than arch elitests. Maybe it's just because more people use arch.
Because it's awesome. Join us... join us... join us...
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I don't know about Arch itself on its own but I use CachyOS that is built off it and everything just works for me.
I've been enjoying CachyOS as well. I haven't gone digging into documentation too much but when I search I typically end up on Arch related forums. Chatgpt helps a lot too.
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It's funny because I see the same cult behavior, but for Fedora. I've never understood the point of this distribution that has never worked well for me.
I'm on Manjaro by the way, because I love everything about Arch except the release style.
The Manjaro release style is holding back everything (yes, also critical security updates) for two weeks. How is that better than getting the updates?
I'm not a fan of getting updates every single day, sometimes breaking little things. I prefer less frequent homogeneous and tested releases.
But you're still getting updates every day, just two weeks later than Arch. The "testing" is just two other branches somewhat closer to the Arch package releases.
Just update weekly. It's an easy fix.
Usually, the stable branch is updated every 2 weeks or so. Look at the past releases: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/stable-updates/12
This must be why you also chose the Lemmy shit just works instance lol
I'm using Fedora, but I'm not going to say it's my favorite. I liked MX and OpenSUSE a lot. Just had a hard time with running them on a computer. Fedora just worked out the box.
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because they used to be special. "I run linux", matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, "I'm in", awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker...
but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain't special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.
arch is slop for normies pretending to be chads, real chads use gentoo and openbsd
The same reason people brag about working 80 hour weeks.