Arch Linux: It's a virus I tell ya!

[Bachstelze]

Rolling release, simplicity.

Same remark.

[Metallion]

That can be done with many distributions, so it's really no big deal.
Tell me something truly unique that Arch has?

[silence]

In the end all distros are very similar... It's all linux. I'm not going to attempt anything as silly as trying to name something no other distro has. I just like the things that Arch has and so I'm using it.

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

Yeah indeed. That's why I think Arch would also look good on my CV. It clearly shows I have better than average linux knowledge.

This one cracked me up! Use something like Slackware, Lunar, Sorcerer or Gentoo, then I would believe you.

[K.L.]

I won't speak for everyone, but that's what I like about Arch:

- Arch keeps it simple, yet it allows me to build my system from ground up

- Rolling release (a big plus in my eyes)

- Arch doesn't include stupid features that I don't need

- Did I mentioned rolling release?

[Dragonbite]

That's funny, I finally got some free time and decided to try arch just yesterday. It didn't last one day. My only reaction was: "Yeah, so it this what people are making so much fuss about?" Don't get me wrong, from what I could see, Arch seems to be a good distro, but nothing special. Back to Ubuntu.

"arch, arch, arch!"

hilarious! I had a very similar experience; even left Arch installed for 3 or 4 months and played around with it a few times but all the hype only lead to disappointment. Great distro but perhaps I had too high expectations and it just didn't live up to satisfy.

I would say now a days must distros are just as good as the others, I prefer Ubuntu over all.

I've had similar thoughts on openSUSE. A lot of good things mentioned about it but it seems to fall flat on implementation for me.

[Bachstelze]

Rolling releases are overrated anyway. Most of the time, you absolutely don't need the newer version of a program. But of course, "my distro has a newer Pidgin version than yours, neener, neener!"

I've had similar thoughts on openSUSE. A lot of good things mentioned about it but it seems to fall flat on implementation for me.

I use OpenSuse as a Xen dom0, and it's really good (not like I would use it for anything else, though).

[HappinessNow]

Rolling releases are overrated anyway. Most of the time, you absolutely don't need the newer version of a program. But of course, "my distro has a newer Pidgin version than yours, neener, neener!"

+1

"Rolling Releases, Rolling Releases, Rolling Releases!" are way over pushed! and only lead to further disappointment in "Arch, Arch, Arch!"

[K.L.]

Rolling releases are overrated anyway. Most of the time, you absolutely don't need the newer version of a program. But of course, "my distro has a newer Pidgin version than yours, neener, neener!"

Not really. With rolling release distro you don't need to reinstall every 6 months (or so). Newer programs can have many useful features, it's not just about version numbers. I know, you can have newest apps in Ubuntu too, but with Arch it's just simpler.

[Skripka]

That can be done with many distributions, so it's really no big deal.
Tell me something truly unique that Arch has?

[silence]

For starters there's AUR. But then again you're not really interested in the topic anyway, so why waste ascii bytes?

[sisco311]

That can be done with many distributions, so it's really no big deal.
Tell me something truly unique that Arch has?

[silence]

it's the distribution that best suits my needs.