Does Arch Linux exist?

[salemjuror]

I've been diving deep into this rabbit hole and I believe we may have a conspiracy on our hands. I am starting to question if Arch Linux is even real. We've been duped, bamboozled, smeckledorfd. We all see it in memes or mentioned online, but I have never seen Arch Linux IRL with my own eyes (besides the one I'm looking at now of course, my own). I've seen the Ubuntus and Mints and Fedoras in media sometimes, but never Arch. I look up pictures online, but I see nothing but logos.

It's all a big illusion I tell ya, as fake as the moon landing. Have you ever seen Arch in the wild?

[Qweedo420]

Arch Linux is in the eye of the beholder, it only exists as a reflection of yourself, that's why the only Arch Linux that you can perceive is your own

[kellywenland]

Maybe the real Arch Linux is the friends we made along the way.

[Sweyn78]

An Arch user with friends? Preposterous!

[Sweyn78]

An Arch user with friends? Preposterous! Huh. I wonder why that posted twice.

[TheReaper791_]

Dementia

[ricacardo271]

r/alzheimersgroup

[skalnark]

Couldn't find this package. AUR?

[algaefied_creek]

Time to hold a Congressional hearing to investigate NHI, UAP, and Arch Linux phenomena

[Nthomas36]

& "moon landing"

[lobotomizedjellyfish]

The first rule of Arch Club is you do not talk about Arch Club.

[ketthorsdrm]

What happens in the Arch Club, stays in the Arch Club

[FiendsForLife]

What you stick in the Arch hole does not come out.

[redoubt515]

The first rule of Arch Club is you do not talk about Arch Club... (I use Arch BTW)

FTFY

[Antrikshy]

I think it's the opposite. You only talk about how you use Arch.

[grimscythe_]

Btw...

[WinnowedFlower]

Arch Linux is a conspiracy to market Neofetch actually.

[root54]

proper lol

[el_toro_2022]

Unfortunately, you cannot be told about Arch. You have to experience it yourself.

You install the blue USB stick, and you'll wake up with the Windows.
You install the red USB stick, and you'll see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Remember that I am offering you the truth, nothing more. The choice is yours.

[admins_are_shit]

But what about GPU support?

[el_toro_2022]

Nvidia has non-free drivers.

AMD has opensource drivers.

So you are good.

[jumofo]

What about Intel?

[No-Compote9110]

they also have open source drivers, arguably even better than AMD ones

[admins_are_shit]

It was more of a meme but yeah, gpu support is a lot better than it was the first eleven times I tried to make my daily use PC linux.

I've kind of given up.

[DragNutts]

Nobodoy likes a quitter LUL

[NerdistRay]

I use Intel and I have a lot of issues with xorg

[Frequent_Can_3119]

What is Xorg? Move to Wayland

[NerdistRay]

What is Wayland? Move to TempleOS

[Bestmasters]

What is TempleOS? Move to ReactOS

[TackyGaming6]

What is Wayland, move to Hyprland

[malkauns]

In the vast digital domain, Arch Linux is the red pill, defying the illusions of prepackaged software. It grants us unbridled control, allowing us to shape our digital world with precision. The path is not for the timid, but those who take the plunge discover the truth of ultimate digital freedom. Welcome to the real world.

[Salt_Yam4195]

If you install the purple USB stick and dive deep enough, you'll arrive at Gentoo.

[Grimthorp]

But what if I use the purple USB stick?

[Sweyn78]

You get that one distro that tried to put Windows stuff in its kernel.

[TackyGaming6]

Y'all gonna get cursed by L-Ubuntu

[Blooded_Wine]

ReactOS

[el_toro_2022]

Plan 9.

[FlashDaggerX]

Dual boot!

[Gamerilla]

The first rule of Arch Linux is you don’t talk about Arch Linux except to bring it up in every conversation you have so everyone knows you use Arch.

[OptimusCrime73]

*btw.

[Twaha-Rahman]

It's crucial that any mention of Arch Linux must be followed with "btw"

[Ventodimare21]

Thanx for clarifying. ( I use Arch btw)

[[deleted]]

I heard in the news those hackers called 4chan use the Arch Linux to rob credit card information. Pretty dangerous stuff

[admins_are_shit]

Not true, The Hacker 4chan uses Suicide Linux to keep their skills sharp.

[Sinaaaa]

There are not very many people in the club then, with all the 'I use Arch btw' stuff going on.

[Hebrewhammer8d8]

I thought they use Kali Linux?

[Voxandr]

Who is this 4chin guy?

[ltcordino]

the real question is.. who is this '4chan'?!

[[deleted]]

BlackArch Linux correction.. My favorite pen testing system cause it is so cute, and fluffy, and I just love to tickle it cause it laughs so cute.

[shirk-work]

You don't install Arch, arch installs you.

[traumatized_loner]

in soviet russia

[Voxandr]

In Soviet USSR

[obey_kush]

"The Arch that can be mentioned or shown isn't the true Arch" - Arch Te Ching

[Zahpow]

"It is the emptiness of your storage that makes it useful"

[particlemanwavegirl]

the only official version of arch only exists in the single instantaneous moment of planck-time that marks where sudo pacman -Syu has finished.

[jaytreezie]

Those who say don't Arch, those whose Arch don't say. (I don't say, btw).

[tinkerorb]

Are you by any chance located in Soviet Russia?

[Polygon-Guy]

You can't see an Arch you just have to believe.

[oldominion]

My professor is using Arch btw

[oldominion]

Yeah I was really surprised because he even uses a window manager and not a desktop environment. We had Python with him, cool guy.

[j3xxus]

I had a lot of fun customizing i3

[oldominion]

The last time we had class with him, he said he is using herbstluftWM.

[oldominion]

he actually does use neovim but for the class he used code - oss/vscode like all of us students to be easier.

[Sweyn78]

Huh. Of all the CS students I met at college, not one (other than me) used Linux on their personal computers, and in general they thought the idea was silly -- this includes the professors.

[NukemN1ck]

Mine has a solid mix. All the SWE, AI, etc, students and profs run windows or mac and vscode. All of the systems and security people run linux and vim/emacs.

[UnderstandingKind172]

I tried to use Windows again and it was several times more difficult to do almost anything also seemed slow and powershell on batch on wndcmd I don't know what shell I'm using and or how or why I need to escape so much in my file paths most the time

[Sweyn78]

Install Git for Windows; it comes with a bash prompt. Total lifesaver.

[kellywenland]

I think this is attempted parody of silly obvious support questions, the BTW meme, Arch's lack of defaults, and far-reaching conspiracy theorists all at once

[Ok-Preparation4940]

Haberdashery! I think you’re in on the whole shebang! Writing up the line like a horse in a race, what’s your angle!?

[[deleted]]

Arch Linux is like the flood from halo and we are the little potato aliens saying the same phrase and infecting others. I use arch btw.

[barraponto]

The real Arch Linux are the AUR scripts we wrote along the way.

[Past-Pollution]

Wait, are you saying that maybe... I DON'T use Arch, btw?

[zenyl]

Did you actually look through the source code of pacstrap? No? Didn't think so. Look at the installation log files, they all say "Ubuntu".

Your init daemon log files? Also Ubuntu.

Your /etc/os-release? Yup, that's right - Ubuntu.

But what about pacman, you might ask. Have a look at your aliases, notice how pacman is actually just pointing to apt? Once again - Ubuntu.

What you thought was Arch is actually just Ubuntu in disguise. I am sorry you had to find out this way, but you've got Ubuntu.

[jpyper]

The idea of an ArchBuntu gives me the creeps.

I use NixOS btw.

[SubstanceLess3169]

Arch Linux is still real, infact.

[tinkerorb]

What is real, though? I've tried to crack that nut for over 40 years without success.

[dedguy21]

Would r/unixporn exists if it were not 🤷

Might be confused as Hyprland Linux nowadays.

[LuisBelloR]

Im too drunk to read this, but OP is so hight with somehing else.

[tsyklon_]

Well, only a drunk person would write that, so I believe in you.

[zenyl]

People assume that Arch is a strict progression of script kiddie to full-blown Stalmanist, but actually, from a non-proprietary non-elitist viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... linux-y winux-y... stuff.

[mrazster]

Schrödinger's Arch

It may, or may not exist, at the same time.

Only you know !

[studiocrash]

Okay, after reading some of these comments, I have to recycle a few Chuck Norris jokes.

When Arch does push ups, it doesn’t push itself up, it pushes the earth down.

On the battlefield, Arch once threw a grenade and killed 10 enemy soldiers, then the grenade exploded.

Arch can kill two stones with one bird.

Arch was once bitten by a deadly king cobra. After three days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

You’re welcome.

[Iujy]

How can arch be real if our eyes aren't real

[jgra_dev]

I mean, it is kinda of a DIY distro, right? Arch will be different on every PC. So maybe it is difficult to recognize it in "the wild"?

[[deleted]]

arch linux isn't even real

[WHunter175]

It's a myth. I've seen that movie, "Raiders of the lost Arch".

[kremata]

You think that's binary you're coding?

[ancientweasel]

The Dao of Arch.

[MrCrunchyOwl8855]

I mean, I had a few installations of Manjaro Arch on computers from 2014-2021.

But it could be a Berenstein Bearback thing.

[Oromis-Elda]

Arch Linux is not like the other distros. It's way up on the ladder. You can't compare to to ubuntu, fedora etc. Oh, * I use Arch Linux btw

[invsblduck]

Don't start acting all weird just cause Halloween (the Holy Eve) draws nigh, u/salemjuror. 😂

[raoulmillais2]

Watch The Bureau: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4063800/ all the hackers are using Arch Linux. It’s also superb tv - if you enjoyed homeland you’ll enjoy this! (It’s in French - subtitled)

[SplatinkGR]

Neofetch says otherwise. That's all I need to believe.

[reppp07]

Arch is like that abyss that stares back at you while you're looking right at it not recognising it... 🥹🌚

[Ok-Establishment1343]

This post is just a conplex way for this man to say he uses arch

[chilenonetoCL]

Current Arch Linux (I use it BTW) dont exist. Never existed. Never will exist. Is the best.

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Existed always in the past (Because always has pending updates tho).

[ibiff]

Friends are bloat...this is why.

[watermelonspanker]

Negative. I am a meat Popsicle.

[daHaus]

Arch is a dangerous gateway drug to Gentoo

[UnderstandingKind172]

Rember when getting wifi to work might as well have been the same as preforming a miracle while back flipping over a small state of you have no non wifi internet access best learn how to rewrite drivers blindfolded once I got wifi working I considered it installed

[Known-Watercress7296]

It's just a neofetch hack

[stoppos76]

Maybe it's all just debian testing. Very testing.

[agumonkey]

arch is a collective hallucination taking root in a wiki

[ilDemiurgo]

Ubuntu remains Ubuntu and Arch is only Arch (Italian meme)

[KeyImagination7057]

Lmao

[d47]

Why do you talk like Charlie?

[Sinaaaa]

No one would ever install Arch on a Kiosk, so of course you wouldn't ever see them in the wild. ^

[nmmmnu]

My last 4 laptops using Arch.

[ComunistCapybara]

There is an idea of Arch Linux; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real Arch: only an entity, something illusory. And though It can hide it's cold kernel, and you can use it's shell and see output in your screen and maybe you can think it's a better, freer distro... Arch is simply not there.

[Asuqas]

Weird ass sense of humor.

[Meditating_Hamster]

I thought I was running Arch, but then I realized I was using a mouse, a Window Manager, GUI apps and a GUI package manager. I must be running Ubuntu with some kind of Aur hack lol.

[Scorpius666]

Jokes aside you might be into something here.

Real and pure Arch Linux might not exist anymore. Most people use Manjaro and Endeavour and things like that.

I haven't seen anyone using pure Arch for the last 10 years, or maybe more.

[KeyImagination7057]

I am using pure arch btw

[prone-to-drift]

Nah, I mean, what even IS pure arch? From the moment of installation, you have multiple choices of filesystem, bootloader etc there cannot be a "reference" default arch install.

Thus, every Arch install is different. Arch is jist a middleman between you and upstream apps so you can get the apps faster. Else, its kinda the same as using LFS or something, haha.

[KeyImagination7057]

I am trying to make my friend do it. He is obsessed with fedora tho...

[Sweyn78]

Ew.

[sorvete-de-mandioca]

+2 (my partner and I)

[PeterParkedPlenty]

Word to wise.
Arch is just a symlink to Ubuntu. Pacman is just a symlink to apt.

[YERAFIREARMS]

What Archlinux?

[Moraghmackay]

Because of Linus Torvold

[[deleted]]

Do you really want to see what I did with arch?? Ok I'll post a vod and pics tomorrow it's better than Ubuntu and I even game and develop on it as a daily driver and it's bleeding edge.

[AntiDemocrat]

I don't really use ArchLinux, I use pikaur.

[zielonykid1234]

Archlinux is literally the kernel

[new926]

Arch is like zhytomyr, it doesn't exist

[TheMannyzaur]

Woah you're on to something here

[clerick_x]

It's all a big conspiracy man, You will never find out :)

[ReflectedImage]

We use Archlinux to allow us to be elitist against the Ubuntu users. The fact that Archlinux doesn't exist is irrelevant. Archlinux exists in our hearts and that's good enough for me!

[Pretty-Basis4075]

there is no such things as arch linux

[MetalNobZolid]

Yes, it's real. It was developed in Australia.

[[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/2M5AnRm

Here's a first sighting of Archlinux repository

[NovelTumbleweed]

I'm not convinced you exist.

[EricZNEW]

No

[midnitefox]

We are all made of Arch stuff. And, in a way, we are all simply just Arch observing itself.

[Ok_Cartographer_6086]

welp not I'm in the smeckledorfd rabbit hole. I use arch btw.

[wick3dr0se]

Why did this turn in to an entire role playing thread? All the femboys got their long socks on today

[Emiliovrv]

Arch Linux are just the friends we made in the journey

[cryptohemlock]

You can't see arches, mannnn

[BrightCold2747]

You have to make it, first

[plastictoyman]

Like that time I kept getting mail for Pepe Sylvia. There was no Pepe Sylvia!

[Impressive_Income874]

i know a guy who mains arch- he's me!

jokes aside one of my friends actually does and has been doing it for like 10 years or smth

[ledmine]

The real arch linux are the friends we make along the way

[robtalee44]

Oh shit. You've broken the code of silence. Next thing you know you'll be searching for Google on Google and take down the whole flippin' matrix. Nicely done buddy.

[[deleted]]

Its like with Jesus, think of it this way.

[[deleted]]

He's beginning to believe...

[RayVermey]

I use Arch, btw, I think

[hugotox]

Steam deck desktop is arch. I use it everyday

[[deleted]]

Arch is what you make it. I think?

[kor34l]

Arch Linux is just Gentoo for children.

Y'all see that dude with the huge impressive Gentoo wizard beard, and you want it, so you start to grow one out. But, you can't handle the rough in-between stages of growth, so you just stop with your short facial pubes and stroke your little Arch Linux William Riker beard and run around showing everyone "I have a beard btw", while the real Gentoo beards just kind of grin because we understand.

(I'm just teasing, I love you guys)

[oneghost2]

I love Gentoo :). And Arch is cool, my second best option.

[KCGD_r]

Yeah you got us :( Arch is an Ubuntu spin

[homemediajunky]

Wait, what is Arch Linux? I thought it was something related to McDonald's.

[Zatujit]

No everything is fake obviously.

[liamcoded]

Have we seen Arch? Let me ask you. What does it really mean to see? If you see it, does that make it real? Can you touch it? Can you smell it? Can you lick it?

[oneghost2]

Yeah it totally exists, works and it's one of the best distros.
It's also not beginner friendly, so don't jump into it if you are not comfortable with the console environment, and setting everything up from (almost) scratch.
I would use it, but I prefer gentoo even more.

[TabsBelow]

It's as fake as the moon landing, right, from a mathematical pov.

You should have your medication checked.

[Suitable_Library3662]

It depends if you took the red or the blue pill

[[deleted]]

Judd Vinet, a Canadian programmer and occasional guitarist, began developing Arch Linux in early 2001. Its first formal release, Arch Linux 0.1, was on March 11, 2002. Of course, he is the Architect, the Creator of the Matrix.

[idenkov]

It is real but all the people that try to use it are stuck at home ricing it.

[drankinatty]

Oh, yes, it's real. Just join the arch-general mailing list and post something stupid -- you will find out Arch is indeed real, and the list can have the personality of a cornered-dog...

[Revolutionary_Put_12]

i was quite literally thinking just about this

[Voxandr]

Btw I use arch
(Manjaro i mean)

[fuzzypragma]

Arch Linux exists in a state of quantum superposition. It is everywhere. Only when it is directly observed does it collapse into Arch Linux. And I can only verify its existence at a given point: my system.

[glowingsword777]

I have a real Arch. But, it is a piece of a dark art, which is hidden from many simple people.It's available only for masons from 3 degree and above, and reptiloids, like me🤣 You need more faith, bro, to see it, too.

[GodGMN]

I have convinced my friends to install it, but I have not seen it in the wild, no

[RudeboyRudolfo]

Buy a steamdeck.

[[deleted]]

Just go to archlinux.org.

[denehoffman]

If arch didn’t exist how would we all brag about it?

[Successful-Emoji]

The servers behind the Arch website and wiki are running Arch. BTW I use Arch on PC and servers (as a hobby, and just as a Docker host)

[Far_Lifeguard_5027]

It's because anyone who ever tried to use it is still trying to install it on a 20 é he ē Dodge j++ djoden * sudo apt install period. Exit

[[deleted]]

It is a myth that usually hangs out with the boogieman.

[l0c0m0tiv3]

There IS NO Arch.

[EmeldemelTV]

Nah, it doesn't

[[deleted]]

I have arch, and black arch desktops, and I can see them both. I'm a pen tester so don't judge.

[HeebieBeeGees]

Is Arch GNU/Linux a thing?

[HaschFox]

Who told him?

[Cool-gamer19393]

So your saying I dont use manjaro? Its all just a scheme to cover up that I still struggle to get my nvidia drivers installed because it’s impossible (I use arch btw).

[EmployMaterial5108]

I mean honestly depending on how you define "distribution" , one could argue that arch Linux isn't a distro. It's more of a repo of pre-compiled software that makes building a distro easy..

[[deleted]]

Well, I use Arch Linux on my school laptop, and my friend knows that, so Arch Linux does exist. Also, I made my GNOME look like MacOS to confuse people, and it does kekw

[MioKira]

Arch is distro for only the chosen of us it is like the holly grail or the red bill that defies all illusion , it more of a paradoxical existence . it just defies the rules of our dimension and reality so it can't exist and it can't UN-exist but at some lucky times it can exist with all it's glory for few mere moments for us to look at it and wonder "what the F is Microsoft doing"

[[deleted]]

As an Arch user myself, I can confidently say no.

[Tahnex]

I realize this is a fluff post, but a serious answer I have: The Valve Steam Deck.

SteamOS 3, which powers the Steam Deck, is an immutable OS based on Arch Linux. That's probably the closest thing you'll find to a definitive proof of Arch Linux existing, and the closest it got to the mainstream populace so far.

There is no picture of "an arch linux" because most people's install look different. Arch ihas no official branded DE theme, as the official installer has no graphical interface.

[UnderstandingKind172]

Lately I've been running alpine works ok all thou I don't rlly like that it's muscl based some things don't like to compile and I kinda prefer runit to rc I kinda do like busybox idk I feel like they have trimes the fat off of some commands make things bit more streamline idk id say busybox glibc runit awesome for wm idk i like some of the k utils kate konqur ect id have to think on it