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?

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    20 hours ago
    • It’s amazingly stable even though it’s a rolling release.
    • Up to date.
    • Maintained by many many knowledgeable people.
    • Arch Wiki
    • 99% of software you need is packaged, and then there’s AUR too.

    That’s about it, but its my daily driver on desktop and laptop.

    • destiper@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I think another factor for some is that it’s a community-driven project rather than a product with corporate backing. This is also a big reason why some use Debian over Ubuntu LTS