Why I use Arch

Content warning: Everything I write here is purely my personal opinion and therefore subjective.

When I started with Linux, I started with SuSE 5.2 (~1998). If you've read my older blogpost, I didn't stick to it.

The first ever distribution that got me stuck was Fedora 1 (yes, 1). After that I was experimenting with Ubuntu (don't remember the version).

When I finally decided to use Linux as my main system, I was going with Linux Mint 14 (Nadia). I was very happy with it for some time, until I realized the hassle with PPA's.

I love having the newest version of software installed, it's just my style. Setting up PPA's for everything I wanted and making sure nothing else breaks was a disaster for me.

So I went onto a journey, downloaded way too many distros and tested them.

In the end, I stuck with Arch. Why? Cause at the time it always had the most recent packages, didn't break on me and I didn't had to compile everything myself (sorry Gentoo).

But the installation is so complicated, you might think.

Let me tell you something, no it isn't if you are interested. Yes, for a normal user it might be confusing and much work to set up everything on their own, but this is exactly what I love about it.

Arch doesn't give me preinstalled things I will never use, want to get rid of and break something in the process. This means that my system will be the way I want it from the start.

If this makes anyone interested in trying out Arch but are afraid to do so, shoot me a message on Mastodon or find me on IRC #nixnet @ freenode.