I don’t know if people use it on desktop but with its minimal size it’s convenient as hell for docker images that don’t need a lot of dependencies installed

Fun fact, “fos” means “liquid shit” in Hungarian, applies literally in this case

Am I the only one who’s fine with typing a password?

I don’t really get what people mean when describing Gnome or any DE as “out of the way”. I’ve never felt like KDE was “in my way”.

“A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality”

(he slays orks using Arch btw)

One would think that, but I’ve seen many claims that it actually runs faster. I wouldn’t know personally, I haven’t used Windows in 5 years

Yep it looks cleaner than btop imo

“But it’s so convenient” is a close second

“But why would they care about MY data, I don’t do anything special”

Anyone outside of tech when I even passingly mention privacy

That’s not my experience with Arch at all, it kinda just works nowadays

They like it when a man they’re already attracted to is passionate, at least that’s my theory

Same. I want to try NixOS, or immutable distros, or a fully containerized system, and I’ve been meaning to give Gentoo a shot for years as well (I’m not suffering enough on Endeavor, btw). I even got a second drive just so I don’t have to throw my current setup away, but I’m just so comfy and everything just works and it’ll be so much work to actually give a new system a fair shot.

I like to dunk on nvidia as much as anyone but really driver support has not been as much of a problem these last few years, other than Wayland it sort of just works for me

It felt so great when I finally wiped my Windows drive back in the day. Suddenly I had an extra drive to distro hop to my heart’s content without having to wipe the previous distro 👌

And there’s a neovim plugin for it. It’s my favorite git client.

I just can’t do pair programming man. It’s awkward enough to code with someone watching or to watch them code, let alone trying to follow their thoughts next to my own.

Blueprints for a factory that automatically builds itself and makes coffee machines

Well, I should have worded it better. Minor issues happen every once in a while, not semi-bricked systems. On my current installation of Endeavour (an Arch derivative) which is about 1 year old, the only thing that broke for maybe a few days was Steam when they rolled out their new UI, but I could work around that by using a command line argument which I found through simple googling - no technical knowledge required, at least not more than an average gamer would have. And the issue was solved with the next nvidia update.

Your mileage may vary of course, but for me I don’t feel I’ve had more issues on Arch than other distros.

Happens every once in a while but usually it’s a trivial repair

This is why Arch is the best. Forget the rolling release, it’s the sheer size of the repos for me.