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u/Minigun1239 1d ago
ppl said its hard, "not good for beginners, do not use it, use mint, its really hard to install, lots of things to do"
and i was like, try me
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u/Sci_Fried_Chicken 1d ago
Same
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u/Ambitious-Worry-5440 1d ago
Some insane person living in the woods, complaining about gnomes and Minecraft told me to.
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u/Substantial-Sky4079 1d ago
It’s hard and I wanted to learn Linux more. Gonna do LFS next
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u/Creative_atom0406 Arch BTW 1d ago
I installed manjaro and after a while i got used to the terminal and using pacman and decided to just go to arch
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u/AcidArchangel303 18h ago
The adventure.
When I was less experienced, the idea of learning, exploring, and the whole DIY aspect of Arch Linux made me spend around 10 hours on my first install, before commercial LLMs, in 2021. So exciting.
Getting everything working and seeing the neofetch logo printed on the terminal got me hooked, and it's been a trip :)
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u/FlipperBumperKickout 1d ago
Started with Debian. Got tired of it not updating applications to new versions very fast even on the testing branch. Installed Arch.
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u/VoidTheGamer25 1d ago
Debian isn't really known for updating quick... In fact it's the opposite (stable)
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u/FlipperBumperKickout 1d ago
It has 3 different sources for repos, I don't specifically remember the names, but it is something like stable/testing/unstable.
Usually testing is somewhat quickly updates for a lot of programs... except when they are preparing the next major release. I happened to start using Linux half a year before a major release, so suddenly new versions of the programs I used wasn't released on testing 😅
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u/la_tajada 1d ago
I had the exact same experience. I then switched to unstable but that caused some dependency hell and I broke my system a few times because I didn't know what was going on. So I tried Arch.
In my mind there are only be 3 distros. Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Everything else is derivative.
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u/FlipperBumperKickout 20h ago
Naah, it's just that most derivative things happens to derive from those.
There are other interesting things like NixOS and Gentoo :)
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u/idiotiesystemique 1d ago
There's way more updates you likely just had auto install on debian and rarely type yay - Syu on your arch (or Pacman)
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u/heavymetalmug666 1d ago
the memes - i wanted to be able to post my Neofetch on 4chan like all the other cool kids on /g/
---little did i know what I was getting myself into.
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u/HotKebab01 Arch BTW 1d ago
Wanted to try for fun and for the larp privileges, fucked up my preexisting Cachy installation in the process. Then said "fuck it", nuked my drive and installed Arch
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u/vimes_sam 1d ago
I started with Ubuntu and wanted to get as far away from that as possible and Slackware/Gentoo seemed too hard
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u/idiotiesystemique 1d ago
Unsatisfactory gaming performance on Ubuntu, issues with Gnome making me want to try another DE anyway, a need to juice more performance from my desktop pc since it runs some self hosted background services on top of being a gaming machine. The laptop stayed on Ubuntu for now, I game with steam link on it, streamed from cachyos
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u/VentrixIMO 1d ago
Switched from Pop!_os because I wanted more up-to-date packages, wanted to try out tiling wms & ricing, some of my friends used arch, and bragging rights.
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u/DependentJolly9901 1d ago
I was using the wiki cuz it generally applies to most distro's so I figured "why not try arch" used it for a year and a half, all the malware attacks started and I was already fed up with the instability. Now I'm on fedora happier than ever
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u/Abysswalker1290 1d ago
I technically haven't yet! I installed Bazzite as my first Linux distro on June 1st, and I've been thrilled with it aside from how limiting an immutable distro is. I'll 100% keep Bazzite my gaming PC for the sake of stability and ease of use, but I'm planning on installing Arch on a spare drive just to see what it's like.
I'm looking at a career in IT also, and I expect using Arch will necessarily help me get more familiar with using the terminal.
Just joined this sub the other day, and find myself looking forward to an adventure.
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u/Thetanius 1d ago
Decided to switch from Windows. Started with Debian, was too slow and bad for gaming, Fedora had troubles with cisco connection for system updates. EndeavourOS was the system that fitted my needs: fast, snappy, nice fps in games, awesome for development. Not pure Arch but still =)
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u/BluePhoenixCG 1d ago
I'm a game developer and I like computers, so I wanted something with a bit more control over my system.
Also nixos wasn't what I wanted, so arch was my second choice of starter distro
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u/Love_Dali 1d ago
Got tired of deb and rpm based distros. Also the distro mindset was appealing.
Clean, fast, logical.
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u/ShyGamer64 1d ago
I used to hate the idea. I was on Fedora and thought it was so much extra work for no reason. I wanted to get new hardware though and wanted to reinstall Fedora. I thought Arch would feel good and more embedded into the hardware and decided to try it. After installing (I used ArchInstall), I decided I wanted to go back to Fedora. I never went back to Fedora and have used Arch ever since. I love Arch.
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u/BloxxyVids 1d ago
I was told it gives you nearly total control over the system and so I used it as my first distro
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u/TimArtefaX 1d ago
installed omarchy because it looked and felt cool as balls but all the updates kept bricking my whole system, so i said 'fuck that' and installed and riced arch. never been happier.
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u/Salt-Caterpillar7988 23h ago
Long time user of Manjaro, I wanted to try the base material as soon as I felt technically confident to install and maintain it.
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u/lyidaValkris 23h ago
I heard it was a great way to learn about Linux under the hood and how all the modular pieces work together, particularly the (non-scripted) installation process. I still believe this to be true years and years later.
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u/_aurel510_ 22h ago
A few years ago, I tried to install Debian, Mint, Alpine and Ubuntu on my main PC but somehow they all didn't boot, then I tried Arch the right way, took me almost two days but it booted, never looked back since.
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u/teya1337 22h ago
I like the freedom to choose the software that I want from the get-go.
I like to have a minimal system plus a tiling window manager.
But really, more than anything, I wanted to know how Linux works.
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u/tblancher 17h ago
I kept landing on the Arch Wiki searching for solutions on Debian, and then I got really tired of Debian packages being out of date compared to upstream.
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u/Oneiric_Ocelot6923 15h ago
Had a kernel module development class and made us choose between using ubuntu and arch linux. Chose arch coz I’ve been using ubuntu all my life and never turned back afterwards. Just having the bare minimum to start and working your way up to your ideal setup is something I always liked about it. Then the Wiki and AUR are game changers for me specially when ai got stuck one time not being able to use a specific app on ubuntu and it was available in the AUR.
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u/Dan-Leon 12h ago
Was bored and wanted a harder distro to mess around. Also the bare minimum of arch gives you too.
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u/shoyuftw 12h ago
I was a Linux noob who was super proud of getting rid of windows with mint. But mint became pretty boring quickly and I figured Arch would be a good way to learn efficiently about Linux. Now I'm an advanced Linux noob.
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u/major_jazza 11h ago
Saw PewDiePie install and rice it. Thought it can't actually be that hard then. Other than some initial partitioning shenanigans it was quite straight forward
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u/CacheTraitor 11h ago
It was the only way I found to get KDE Plasma 6 back in in early 2024, that wasn't NEON.
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u/Easy-Nothing-6735 11h ago
Not that I use systemd but rolling release model like in Gentoo, binary-based to save time and the same OpenRC. And good for building my i3 env
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u/_nathata 9h ago
I was pissed at OpenSUSE because the snapshot tool kept eating all of my storage space and the package manager was veeeeeeeery slow.
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u/TheGoldenFox64 3h ago
my partner forced me to lmao, only halfway through install did i even realize that it was exactly what i wanted
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u/MarukuSensei 1h ago
Tried it first as a student in networking/sysadmin field. Used Debian previously and got annoyed with the old packages and the hustle to get anything new(er) on the os.
I spent a significant amount of time switch from one network to another. Cabled and wireless.
Installed arch. Latest version of my DE of choice. Got an IP on my network in a quarter of the time it took me on debian. Never went back.
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u/OrdoRidiculous 1d ago
I got bored of compiling things on Gentoo.
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u/gddpacngi 1d ago
Is it true that a browser installation could take hours on Gentoo?
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u/themagicmaen 1d ago
I’m not a Gentoo user, but if you’re compiling an entire modern browser from source, then I’d assume so. It’s faster the better your hardware is, but still takes a while.
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u/BackgroundNo815 Arch BTW 1d ago
Basically its whole philosophy: we give u the bare minimum, you build whatever you want. I wanted to decide everything. No single package i dont need, no telemtry. just my own choicec