May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?

  • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I am a software developer, on work computers I have debian, on my personal I have arch.

    I would never use fedora as I am not here to troubleshoot bullshit for red hat, and would never use ubuntu because of their snap bullshit. It can be avoided but in both cases it is an indicator of the motivations of the company that controls them not being aligned with my interests.

    I like arch because of the rolling release and because I like to control and understand all that happens on my machine. Optimization is not my main motivator.

    I have almost nothing à la carte, i bulk-installed all that my DE wanted and use that plus alacritty and steam.