As an oldschool Linux user, I decided to come back to this OS after more than 16 years of Windows. Decided to come back as I heard that Linux started to work well as a good desktop OS and decided to start with Arch. Worst decision in my life: all working out of the box, offering the fastest and smoothest experience on pc in my whole life. When I find a problem, the wiki itself is more than enough to solve 99% of the problems and if it doesn't the community is more than glad to help. Not counting the amount of unsolved system vulnerabilities (7 on Arch vs 1112 on Windows atm). I was preparing for a buggy and slow OS, like on Windows, and feel at home with some bluescreens and broken drivers. Instead, they gave me the best tool I worked with so far. 2/10, won't reccomend.

I just watched a less tech savvy Windows user in r/computers being told by an Arch elitist that in order to reduce their RAM usage they need Arch. They also claimed that Arch is the best distro for beginners because it forces you to learn a lot of things.

What do you think this will accomplish?

Someone who doesn't know that much about Linux or computers in general will try this, find it extremely difficult, become frustrated about why everything is so complicated, and then quit.

That is the worst possible outcome for the Linux community. By behaving this way, you are actively damaging our reputation as a community by teaching people that the extreme end of difficulty is the norm or even easy for Linux distributions.

This needs to stop. Ubuntu, PeppermintOS, Linux Mint and etc exist for a reason.

Edit: I wasn't very clear. I'm not saying Arch cannot be a good distro for someone who hasn't tried Linux before, I'm saying that someone who isn't interested in learning about Linux or computers in general shouldn't be recommended something that requires a significant amount of learning and patience just to be a functional tool for what they need it for.

Can people please stop posting. We are going to remove all posts asking about this in future. This is the only thread where it is to be discussed from now on.

https://status.archlinux.org/

https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/

From https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/ (if the site is accessible) they recommend using the aur mirror like this:

In the case of downtime for aur.archlinux.org:

Packages: We maintain a mirror of AUR packages on GitHub. You can retrieve a package using:

$ git clone --branch <package_name> --single-branch https://github.com/archlinux/aur.git <package_name>

I'm sorta surprised. https://imgur.com/KULr7Yy

Source here: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

Opinion from a subscriber of this sub and user of Arch:

Honestly this is just weird. I get it, this is Arch, you want to have a similar atmosphere of efficiency like in the Arch forum and people should spend some time googling before the ask a technical question.

Yet whenever I click on top posts it's full of meta discussion which transform into a circlejerk since they were already there 1000 times. Yes you're using Arch now, the wiki is great, Arch is great, Arch taught you everything and more etc. Or how about the same threads posted as questions? What is great about Arch, what did you learn from Arch, why don't you use another distro?....

So it's not productive to look into a guy's problem because it might be found somewhere else but it's perfectly fine to participate in "what do you like about Arch, number 6,789,312?

This is like /r/programming where actual articles about coding are downvoted because "not really something new" while "How google hires programmers #596933311" or "Never use XY because I didn't like it -my blog post #38383819191" are top articles.

Yes I can just unsubscribe and nobody forces me to be here and it's not the purpose of this sub that I -some random guy- likes it. But I also don't see what's the purpose of this sub in first place.

Wh

After discussion amongst the mods, we have decided to join with the collective action.

As of Midnight GMT/UTC June 12th this sub will be locked and made private until Midnight GMT/UTC on June 14th.

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.

The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do?

Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit

submit a support request

comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

Spread the word.

Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join us at our sister sub at /r/ModCoord- but please don't pester mods you don't know by simply spamming their modmail.

Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

Don't be a jerk.

As upsetting this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.

EDIT:

I have decided, after much thought to keep it at just 48 hours only. The reason being that Linux users in general live more on their desktops than on mobile apps, and therefore are unlikely to be massively affected by this.

ArchLinux 0.1 release

Today, 18 years ago, Arch 0.1 was released as first official installation disk. Kind of nice that we still are pretty much the same distro with a bunch of new people and software. Thanks for everything to everyone involved! 💙

This just came out. PewDiePie discusses how he is using Linux Mint and, more interestingly, how he is enjoying Arch Linux on his laptop. What do you think?

all in the title

!aw

edit:

also: !aur = aur packages !pkg = packages in official repo !archlinux = arch forum

For the last few hours I'm F5'ing Arch' and Ubuntus sub to see the numbers get closer and closer. A few minutes ago the moment was finally there where we took over #1

Nothing changes, we're not better in any way, it's not even a big deal or will last for long and I know how stupid I am to wait for something like this, but still - Nice job everyone 😂️

^{And happy Valentines Day 🌹️}

^{https://i.imgur.com/unP2VvX.png}

There's r/linux4noobs people who want to leave Windows, and they keep asking what they should install.

Fair question.

People suggest Mint, Fedora, Endevour, Manjaro, doesn't matter.

But there's always one or two guys who confidently tell them to install vanilla Arch, but only by following Arch Wiki. Heaven forbid that those newbies (Windows yesterday, never saw TTY in their life) try to cut corners with archinstall.

Why is that? So you can feel you are a higher race of Linux users, is that it?

(Arch user here, but I'm sick of it)

You've ruined a once cool looking logo for me and my disappointment is immeasurable.