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by xdfgh1112 308 days ago
Many people used Arch for its status as "the pro Linux distribution" i.e. not beginner friendly, but secretly still easy enough that you don't need much effort. That's how "I use Arch btw" became a meme.

These people have now moved to NixOS.
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zozbot234 308 days ago
> "the pro Linux distribution" i.e. not beginner friendly, but secretly still easy enough that you don't need much effort.

That's a common perception of Debian, perhaps even more than Arch. One difference being that Debian actually has a lot of notable use in production. It's also just as stable as any "LTS" distro, which is a welcome convenience for many beginners as well as more experienced users.

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Foxboron 308 days ago
> That's how "I use Arch btw" became a meme.

Not really.

The meme is from 4chan and the /g/ board that had some origins around 2011/2012. Gentoo was the main meme before this.

After 2012'ish the meme-culture from 4chan became mainstream internet culture with the popularity of reddit. Nothing has really progressed beyond that.

> These people have now moved to NixOS.

[citation needed]

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Imustaskforhelp 308 days ago
I mean, I was using nobara and my brother had showed me arch once and it looked so cool and he used to say, " that I have ran arch" and so I was watching a lot more arch content / linux too so I decided to try it to be "good at linux"

Not many regrets aside from the times that I accidentally deleted my hard drives so many times that I can't count on fingers lol, its still a little fun lol. Ricing it with hyprland and I am truly happy with my system.

I also have nix but I couldn't really love it aside from the fact that nix-env is really really cool.

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