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  • People who talk about it like this are people who probably value a few things:

    • learning (in general)

    • self-improvement

    • deep understanding over their system

    • control over their belongings

    • trust/safety in their system

    DIY distros naturally provide these things by forcing you to go through their manual install process.

    Think about it like how Goku always finds ways to get stronger and better at what he does by sheer effort.




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    20 days ago

    Its basically the difference between buying a consumer car with automatic transmission and self-driving vs putting together a kit car that has manual stick shift.

    Ubuntu and fedora and the like, like the modern consumer car, just does everything for you with little hastle. But you might not know anything about how it works and have to call a mechanic to fix it.

    Arch and Gentoo and the like, like kit cars, give you granular control over your system, can sometimes be a lot more powerful, is tuned to your specific needs, and most importantly: you learn. You will rarely if ever have to call the mechanic because you know how to just go in and rip and replace or tweak the faulty part.

    You can obviously learn to work on your consumer car and start tuning and tweaking it, but you’re not fully in charge.

    There are different usecases for different people. For the people who like Arch, installing everything yourself is a value-add, to us it means the system gets out of our way. You set it up one time and it just works.

    I put together my install over 6 years ago and have had to do next to no maintenance since then with regular updates.



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    21 days ago

    I suppose that for an automatic out-of-box experience this is true and probably what most users want, but again if you’re savvy (which I recognize is not the case for most users, making Arch not viable for everyone), Arch is equally hardware-compatible and with the AUR even moreso in some cases. There is no automatic driver installer on Arch, but that’s because there is no automatic anything installer - you’re expected to research and maintain it yourself (which is excellent for learning linux by the way).