3/3 for arch

Lemme guess, another Arch Linux user?

I say because I only know two people in my life who are transitioning or have transitioned, and both are Arch Linux users.

Well the first time I ran Linux was in 99-2000, before I had proper internet (one needed to buy these prepaid dialup cards and winmodems wouldn’t work on Linux), so actually had to buy a book ‘The Linux Bible’. Used that book a lot, especially in the early days to troubleshoot LILO (Before GRUB) bootloader and configure dual boot. Of course, once internet was readily available, online search / forums replaced those books. Last book I bought was about redhat/mandrake rpm packaging.

Yup, as a Debian user I feel this old and the only person I personally know, who have transitioned is an Arch user.

This hurts because Debian is named after a couple (Debra Lynn and Ian Murdock) who got married and divorced and Ian passed away. Going with Debian is a lifetime of hurt.

On the other hand Arch girls are described in Rick James’s song “Superfreak”.

MangoWM (MangoWC formerly) … started using it when Hyprland didn’t have side scrolling like Niri, and Niri only as a scrolling manager and couldn’t do the master stack. Mango being the best of both worlds, I riced it really well and stuck with it.

There is no DHCP, it’s all static addresses, but there is an ARP table maintained at the router, and modern routers protect against ARP poisoning, meaning the same IP cannot have two mac addresses, and they will churn out errors. It’s also a security nightmare because many low level packet tracing tools will not work or give out false positives. I still don’t know how it’s working for you, because by all accounts, it shouldn’t.

I don’t know how it’s working for you because I just tried on my PC and got an IP address conflict on my router.

I use PikaOS, which is based on Debian. It’s right up there with CachyOS is performance and gaming, and have been using it for over a year with its hyprland variant.

Since I deleted reddit, can’t seem to find the post where someone shared adult themed cursors

I have been using PikaOS for over a year. It has broken twice for me. Once the latest wine package stopping launching games (downgraded wine to fix), and one time monitor not detecting correct edid (had to resort to display port for a while), but both of them got resolved eventually.

Lol, which is funny as every torrent client gives the example of downloading Linux isos (which is probably for legality reasons)

Good, Maybe a list of “Pirate Distros” would help people.

It appears to be active (running)

Yeah, but the keyword is large. Because there are many community distros that are hardly updated. Case and point, Spiral Linux is still stuck in bookworm, even though this week 450 people downloaded its iso.

Depends really. Small community distros serve a purpose as they either provide some niche configurations or pre-installed software that major distros don’t, or they are made because they are trying to fork a major distros that is becoming too corporate with risk of becoming less open source. Now within community distros there are reputations. Debian is famously a community driven distro that hundreds of other distros are based on, and so is arch. They are pretty stable and will last more and more. Also, corporate distro doesn’t guarantee longevity or stability either, because there are several corporate projects that get abandoned and are picked up by communities.

It’s not a hot take, but it only applies to specific type of newbies who want to keep using Linux like they use windows, because a newbie will stay a newbie on an atomic system. Those who actually wanna dwell into Linux and take full advantages of things like customizing & scripting, will feel restrained. But then again, only a newbie could really tell if that’s the case.

This is not a religion.

Tell that to arch evangelists

Windows -> Mandrake/Mandriva -> Fedora -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Manjaro -> Arch -> NixOS -> CachyOS -> PikaOS

As a generational discord hater, this pleases me.