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    [–] skyin7@feddit.de 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Why would one unuse Arch btw?

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 129 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Arch is only the larval stage. When a Linuxite consumes enough CLI, they metamorphose into one of two adult forms: a Void user, or a NixOS user. As these two adult forms are incompatible, this is a rare case of species divergence within a life cycle. Even more oddly, like the axolotl, many Arch users never leave the larval stage, and continue living comfortably in their ecological niche.

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

    Wow, this is so well explained, I'm making it my personal copypasta!

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

    Retired form of Linuxite is called Gentoo user

    [–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If NixOS and Void are the adult form then what is the form of FreeBSD and OpenBSD? Old form?

    [–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

    They are the alolan forms.

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

    Different species. They're not in the Linuxite clade.

    The Linuxite taxa have far higher diversity due to faster mutation rates; the BSD genus has far fewer species, and can't cross-breed with Linuxites.

    [–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Daamn, I'm a pupa (Arch -> Debian + Nix)

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Yeah, that comment leaves out the "I learned a lot from Arch, but don't have the time to manage evertything anymore" crowd, which goes Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian/Mint/Fedora

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I discovered that EndeavourOS satisfied that for me, without me having to give up Arch. And snapper+btrfs-grub has eliminated any interest in messing about with the new line of immutable systems. The only tempting distro I might spend time in is Chimera Linux (link, b/c of an unfortunate naming conflict) which (a little hilariously) is an attempt to make a Linux distro that's purely Gnu-free. Chimera also runs dinit instead of systemd, and that's interesting.

    Anyway, there are a couple of options that let a user stay in Arch but make things less... fussy.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

    I gunked up my system with too much AUR, even with endeavourOS. NixOS might be a bit more suitable for my ADHD brain.

    [–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] drmoose@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As someone who switched to nixos - eh. So much hacking to make dev stuff work really kills the magic that nixos is supposed to be :|

    [–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Yeah, it is a lot of initial work, but once you got your shell.nix or flake.nix in place it is really nice, to not have to deal with different dependencies and versions in different projects.

    But you can also archive the same on any distro with the nix package manager.

    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

    There are good (usable) flake templates you can just nix flake init, tho

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

    You could always try Void 😁.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago

    Look at the community where it was posted.

    [–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    they have probably switched to gentoo

    [–] metaStatic@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

    I don't see the programmer socks in the picture, did I miss them?

    [–] Azzu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

    Look at the subreddit. It's implied they switched to void.

    [–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

    Learning by doing.