Yeah this is the real reason I prefer it. A sane installer, auto installing Nvidia drivers, auto setting up Snapper, a good GUI package manager that actually manages everything.

The customized kernel, and performance boosts that may or may not actually exist are just a bonus.

Easy is dangerous. It gave us abusable defaults. It gives us windows and macOS. And turned into a hostage situation.

Linux works because the second someone gets bitchy, you can migrate. Even the components can’t tie you down. Bcachefs was so cool and really promising, but Kent had a psychotic break and we just moved away and didn’t get sucked into his gravity well. Imagine that situation on windows. “Well, copilot is is everything and NVMe drives can explode randomly now.”

More like

Arch: Actually you took most of who you are from me.

I am inevitable

Not really, I use CachyOS, but it is funny how much people hype the performance boosts. I notice it, but not by a ton or anything. It's mostly just Arch but easier to use and with built in tools that are helpful.

So I'm actually making fun of the tribalism.

Yes, I think it may have cured my distro hopping. I was on Fedora KDE the longest besides Cachy, but there's a lot of little things that I like better.

I've installed arch a couple times. I think it's helpful do a few times at least so you know how things work.

Now I just use endeavoros though.

You can choose to install Firefox or not in the setup. It has its own checkbox in the package list.

But sometimes, it's nice to slap a few extra slices of something on that pre-made frozen pizza. 🫳🧅🧄🥓

tbf since you have to set up more stuff by yourself in arch it is more susceptible to human failure

before i learned of archinstall, i would install arch and after around a month the timezone would stop working

though cachy did break for me and i couldn't update for like a month before i switched back to arch because the login manager in cachy would load forever (thankfully, it did have snapper set up so that wasn't a big issue. i even put snapper in my next arch installation)

It has a customized kernel that supposedly improves performance. Well that, and it actually has a better installer than arch-install imo

Good question, let me check real quick...

Oh. I can't. They forgot to renew their website's SSL certificate for the 9th time.

Manjaro is Patrick when he had a job at the Krusty Krab and was trying to sweep with the wrong end of the broom.

We don’t talk about Bruno.

Oh man, I had to go way down in the comments to find a Manjaro fight. I even saw a fight over Mint on my way here. Mint, ffs.

WTF I though Manjaro was the black sheep of the Arch family.

Depends on what you're hosting on the home server and how often you'll use the device for gaming/other stuff. Most people prefer stable distros for servers, because if you go too long without updating you may be missing dependencies. But if you're going to update regularly and use it every week, it's probably fine. Some people do use Arch based distros for servers. CachyOS is my favorite and easiest to use Arch based distros despite making fun of it in the meme.

No, get a SBC or old laptop or something for your server.

Yes.

Any popular Linux distro fits. I'd go with mint

If you're satified you're probably not missing much.

Most of the Arch-based distros have found a niche of their own and most of them try to offer varying levels of help to the user to sweeten the Spartan experience of vanilla Arch.

Some of them like Endeavour try to keep the interference minimal, they offer some presets and some theming and an installer and stop there.

Distros like Cachy and Garuda are somewhere in the middle, with some quality of life stuff such as graphical package installers, and some custom packages, and streamlined driver install.

A distro like Manjaro or SteamOS takes it to the extreme with a "mommy knows best" setup that only bears a tenuous resemblance to vanilla Arch anymore, and you have to leave it alone to work as intended.

Garuda is very, VERY similar to CachyOS. They are both gaming focused, Arch rolling releases, have their own modified kernel, have their own repos, both set up proprietary Nvidia drivers by default.

I haven't spent a lot of time with Garuda, but I've found CachyOS to be an improved version of what it is trying to do. It has a bigger community, better gaming performance in every benchmark I've seen (they've also had a few bugs lately that have made Fedora benchmark better than Garuda), better general Ui responsiveness (and if you use Garuda's Dragonized Desktop it's even heavier than GNOME). I also don't like that Garuda enables Chaotic AUR out of thr box. This allows random third parties to compile binaries for you, instead of building from source. This takes a lot less time to update if you have limited hardware, but you're also probably not using a bleeding edge OS if you have old hardware. AUR is already dangerous, no need to add Chaotic AUR where you can't even be sure that what code is being executed on your system is what is described in the package. Lastly I like Shelly a lot more than Pamac, I couldn't even get Pamac to manage Flatpak last time I tried it, and Shelly easily manages every possible package type with ease and matches KDE's theming better.

That being said, Linux is Linux for the most part. I did make this meme making fun of other CachyOS users for thinking the performance boosts are so mega important.

Choices ARE good! It helped you find the niche that suits you best. After a while we forget that other people value different things, so there is no one best choice.

Telling people what distro you use is cringe

I use arch btw

In the context of this meme, Mint is everyone's childhood friend who nobody has a problem with but is a bit stuck in the past (I don't have a Spongebob character equivalent, sorry)

Friendlier defaults, graphical package manager included out of the box, some tasks will benefit from packages that can use the instructions on your cpu. I can't see a single advantage of Endeavour over Cachy.

That said they are both very similar.

Honestly I managed to brick 2 EndeavourOS installs. This was during just a normal weekly update cycle. With Cachy I haven't had a single issue running a weekly update. And I mean I use yay and install heavily from the AUR and I still have yet to screw up an install. Obviously I'm more experienced now than I was when I started with Manjaro and then EndeavourOS, but it's been butter smooth with Cachy.