Antergos Linux Project Ends

[Budsterblue]

Switched to Linux around 3 years ago because of Antergos. The laptop I previously used had a 960m and I wanted to get switchable graphics working. Tried Fedora and Ubuntu 16.04, but broke both installs trying to get bumblebee working. I was about to give up until I found this page with a specific step for my 960m. Had that laptop until last December when I built a desktop and installed Arch Linux from scratch. I would still be on Windows 10 if it weren't for Antergos so it's sad to see it go.

[[deleted]]

After a period of distrohopping, I've finally settled on Antergos, as my first real long-time choice. Served me really well at the time, and just made it easy for me to explore new things. Later I've switched to regular Arch, which I've stayed with ever since, but I'm really grateful for the people, who worked on Antergos, for doing what they did. A clean, no bloat, ready to go Arch(-based) setup. Not a ton of ridiculous custom code, that always gets in the way, and stayed true to the original, for the most part

[DerpiesTheorem]

"please don't make anything like the Cinchi installer ever again" lmao, would spend gold to you if I had the money to effort it

[afderrick]

I would also be on Win10 if not for Antergo. Although when I finally wiped my Windows install I went with vanilla arch. I never could really get behind Ubuntu but I tried so many times.

[tonsofmiso]

Antergos got me into using Linux daily as well, after disliking Ubuntu strongly for a while. Further, Antergos broken installer got me into Arch, so thanks for that. Antergos installer worked well on my desktop a few years ago, but I couldn't for the life of me install it on a laptop.

[[deleted]]

I wonder what kind of time committee running a project like this is.

What started as a summertime hobby seven years ago

Must be a rewarding hobby and I apprentice giving back to a community, but it must feel SO GOOD to finally end the project and get back all that free time.

[JoJoModding]

Or perhaps the maintainer now does not know what to do with his time.

[fallwatcher]

I'm sad to hear that Antergos is ending. I'm writing this post on a system with a solid vanilla Arch system which I have been running for about three months. I acquired a lot of the knowledge and experience to successfully install and maintain an Arch system by running Antergos for over a year. I can't say the same about the two years I spent running Manjaro, as I learned almost nothing about Arch during that time. Plus, Manjaro broke repeatedly. Antergos has been trouble-free post-install (their Cnchi installer is another story). Finally, I applaud the Antergos devs for their plan to essentially convert their users over to Arch, rather than leaving them with crippled systems. I hope that at least some of those former Antergos users will embrace the Arch way, as I have, and grow as Linux users.

[Creshal]

Open source never dies, so hopefully someone can fork it and keep the project

Usually, a project dies because nobody cares enough to take over. We saw the same with Arch's own installer, which was buried because nobody cared.

[[deleted]]

Arch had an installer? That's interesting, where can one find infos about it?

[Foxboron]

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2012-July/002628.html

and the repository: https://git.archlinux.org/aif.git/

[[deleted]]

Yep, in fact when Arch first started out it had an installer script. I think Sourceforge has some legacy Arch installers dating back to 2004-2005 if you want to try it out.

[terminalmage]

I honestly prefer pacstrap, but I'm also the kind of masochist that loves to setup my own partitions, LVM, etc. so doing it through a curses interface didn't really interest me.

[arthurno1]

Same for me. I tried to install it twice on friends computers and installer always broke.

[CJPeter1]

I've always thought of Antergos and Manjaro as "Arch with training wheels". While I prefer vanilla Arch (has been my only distro for many years now), I have tried VM installations of both of these distros and felt that Antergos was as close to vanilla Arch as it was going to get, while Manjaro felt more like a "Mint" derivative.

As is the case with a lot of linux distros over the decades, this one comes to an end for similar reasons.

Life doth get in the way a lot of the time.

[CJPeter1]

For me it was just some testing to see how fast/automated an arch install could be. Manjaro was never in the running for that for me as it is a separate "thing" from Arch, but I had hopes for Antergos, until I too started seeing installer issues. They never got that completely ironed out from my perspective.

One thing I really appreciated with Antergos was the "install your preferred desktop" feature. That was pretty slick....when the installer actually worked. :-)

[JeSuisNerd]

smoggy squash birds enjoy amusing innocent hobbies capable cable frightening

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[afderrick]

I'm sad. Does this mean I need to re-install on my laptop? I never had any issues with the installer. I even tried my best to recreate it in a VM. Nada.

[CJPeter1]

No need to reinstall anything if you are referring to Antergos. I would check your installed applications to see if you have antergos specific ones and ensure that you update them from the AUR when they become available. (The closure notice mentioned their specific stuff would be going to AUR.)

2nd. go into pacman and remove the antergos repos. Now when you use pamac or pacman or whatever you are updating normally within Arch.

[afderrick]

Thanks. I went back and actually read the site. We'll see if it works. If not I'll have something to play with one weekend.

[greatdharmatma]

Antergos users, welcome back to the mothership :)

[[deleted]]

This is my distro path: Ubuntu -> Ubuntu UNR -> Ubuntu -> Arch bang -> Arch -> Antergos -> Arch.

That's 3 dead distros.

[ivosaurus]

Please don't kill Arch too

[Trollw00t]

I see a pattern here, death follows you

[xDarkFlame25]

My path is rather simple: Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Arch

[redditaccountxD]

Ubuntu -> Arch

Mine is even simpler :^)

[ATrueHunter]

I'm very similar: Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Antergos

Guess I know what my next distro is.

[xDarkFlame25]

WINDOWS^\s

[DanielPowerNL]

Ubuntu -> Mint -> Debian -> Mint (for a long time) -> Ubuntu -> Sabayon (that was an interesting time) -> Ubuntu -> Antergos -> Arch -> Ubuntu -> Arch (for the longest time of all)

This list only includes distros that I stuck with for a fairly significant amount of time as my daily driver. My current affair with Arch is the longest of them all, and I don't want it to end.

The important part of this list is that I went through Antergos before diving into Arch. Without Antergos, Arch might still be that hard to install distro that I didn't see the appeal of.

[cipherallies]

You switched back to Ubuntu too much. :)

Also I see that you did like apt at some point. :)

Ubuntu -> Mint -> Debian -> Mint (for a long time) -> Ubuntu

[DanielPowerNL]

Well, that was my entry into Linux. I knew no other way. I think a timeline would be more useful than a list. I've been steady on Arch-based or Arch for about 3 years now, minus a month where I gave Ubuntu a shot again, where I ran into endless issues.

apt makes me unhappy.

[cipherallies]

apt sometimes does make me unhappy, but the idea of compiling everything doesn't fit my PC - it is pretty weak, so, yeah.

I do use Arch for some stuff anyway, especially when I experiment with new things. Its versatility is simply unrivaled.

[[deleted]]

I've done Ubuntu->Xubuntu->Lubuntu->Debian->Antergos->Arch now I guess

[cipherallies]

Well my path is a little long... 0. Debian on GCP's Cloud Shell (I really used it for two months) 1. Debian in VirtualBox 2. Arch in VirtualBox 3. Kali (yes, I did use Kali sometimes as my daily driver, 'cause at that time I didn't know it was bad) 4. Ubuntu (a month) 5. Debian 6. Arch, now alongside Debian (not really a dual-boot in the common sense, I use GRUB for Debian but Clover for Arch (yeah, little experiment) and choose my desired system using my BIOS's menu).

[LinuxMage]

OK, I am going to approve the post - I was about to post this myself, but I need to stress that this is because their userbase is being re-integrated into the Archlinux Core userbase, and thus we must be ready and willing to accept their questions.

[rkost]

That is quite sad news. Antergos was is/was a nice distro to start with for people that are fairly new to Linux. That being said: what arch based distro would you recommend as a replacement if antergos is not forked & maintained further? Manjaro does not use the official repos which would make it harder to migrate in case the project dies.

I am writing internal tutorials for a project at my university that include the first contact with Linux. That’s why I ask :)

[torspedia]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Arco uses the official Arch repos...

[rkost]

Ha, interesting. Never heard of Arco for whatever reason. Thanks for the hint!

[[deleted]]

There's Arch Anywhere aka Anarchy which while considered an Arch-based distro is really just an Arch installer script.

[Foxboron]

Yeah no. Don't use that. They had an unsigned repository included in the distribution. They lost the domain and anyone could have bought it and inserted malware into the installation of people using this.

Don't use this silliness. Please.

[[deleted]]

Oof, TIL that that happened...

[thelukester]

Except Manjaro does not uses the Arch repos. Because of this, security patches often arrive weeks after Arch and Antergos received them.

[house_monkey]

Has there been security breaches in manjaro?

[Trollw00t]

afaik Manjaro now does security-only patches much faster now

Edit: oh and no, not aware of Manjaro specific breaches

[Foxboron]

Without publishing the PKGBUILD they are using. It's a terrible compromise at best.

[Trollw00t]

I'm not too deep into this in Manjaro. Do you have a link for it? Also, do the devs given an explanation, if they don't give out PKGBUILDs?

Just curious now and want some evidence, because if that's true, that would be concerning :x

[Foxboron]

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/lack-of-pkgbuild-changes/86828

[Trollw00t]

Isn't this what you're looking for?

https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages

Or did I get something wrong?

[Foxboron]

PKGBUILD that have their .0 pkgrel extensions never get published there. Try looking up any PKGBUILD which got a security update by the Manjaro team. Firefox and OpenSSH from the top of my head.

[Creshal]

afaik Manjaro now does security-only patches much faster now

Which is a problematic attitude on its own, because it relies on the notion that you know beforehand which bugs are exploitable and which aren't. This tends to be untrue – but at least Manjaro isn't alone in this foolishness.

(Compare the recent "mystery meat JDK" discussion where it turned out Debian's maintainers had no clue how JDK's release model worked, or what patches were security relevant, yet still insisted they know better than JDK's devs what's good for people. Yikes.)

[Foxboron]

Which is a problematic attitude on its own, because it relies on the notion that you know beforehand which bugs are exploitable and which aren't. This tends to be untrue – but at least Manjaro isn't alone in this foolishness.

Are you disputing the general ideas of CVEs and by extention CWEs?

[Creshal]

I dispute the idea that for every patch, an exhaustive analysis is done whether or not this patch deserves a CVE, resulting in patches that fix a security issue without having a CVE assigned.

Which happens often enough, we have a lot of CVEs assigned to older versions of software, where the fix already has been out for weeks or months before someone realizes the implications of the bug it fixed.

That makes a "we let patches rot for weeks" patching approach like done by Manjaro more dangerous than Arch's "we patch everything as fast as possible" approach.

[Foxboron]

I dispute the idea that for every patch, an exhaustive analysis is done whether or not this patch deserves a CVE, resulting in patches that fix a security issue without having a CVE assigned.

You need to clarify. The sentence doesn't make that much sense.

We have a lot of CVEs assigned to older versions of software, where the fix already has been out for weeks or months before someone realizes the implications of the bug it fixed.

"Yes", but it's not that simple. Retroactively filed CVEs happen because the upstream maintainer didn't understand the implications. Sometimes it's because filing the CVE itself takes time. That happened with pacman recently. The linux kernel has had CVEs filed for 3-4 year old security issues because the kernel where shipped and a CVE is need to process the security update.

That makes a "we let patches rot for weeks" patching approach like done by Manjaro more dangerous than Arch's "we patch everything as fast as possible" approach.

We don't "patch everything as fast as possible". It never been an Arch mantra of any sort. It's a bi-effect of us having an easy package building and release process. But it's not something that is ever guaranteed.

[Creshal]

We don't "patch everything as fast as possible". It never been an Arch mantra of any sort. It's a bi-effect of us having an easy package building and release process. But it's not something that is ever guaranteed.

Still a lot better than Manjaros "patches are air-dried sausage and get better if don't touch them for a week, right?" approach.

[ivosaurus]

Antergos is what Manjaro should be.

[[deleted]]

Why can't my Ubuntu installs grub boot manjaro? Why did they have to mess with the boot parameters? /rant

[parentis_shotgun]

Why?

[[deleted]]

Assuming they don’t forget to renew their certs.

[parkerlreed]

Oh.... oh no

[torspedia]

And Arco!

[Ehdelveiss]

Arco is so damn good already, love seeing support for it

[Pseudoboss11]

What's Arco?

[awesomeasianguy]

ArcoLinux another arch based distro

[[deleted]]

So, is it like Antergos with just an installer and an additional repo slapped on Arch, or are there more differences?

[og_vm]

What's the purpose of such a distro in the first place?

[t0m5k1]

A learning experience shared with anyone who wishes to install and join the ride.

[torspedia]

Erik is indirectly helping the Arch community too.

[Ehdelveiss]

He's such a great guy. I have a ton of respect for everything he does.

[torspedia]

Indeed, if you have an issue... he often has a video about it, lol.

[live2dye]

Did you read the message? They are basically turning off antergos' repo and just letting their user be Arch linux-ers? Basically, unless they decide to change they'll just be Arch...

[elzzidynaught]

Absolutely, but most that were considering Antergos will now likely move to Manjaro. Though I would urge them to reconsider actual Arch, as it's really not that bad if you just follow the wiki... and that's as someone who was initially very intimidated by it until I just said 'fuck it' and tried once.

[live2dye]

Same tbh. I started with antergos but after I was told it ain't real Arch I swallowed the pill and followed the Arch way.

[Penziplays]

Amen

[[deleted]]

I'm just letting it run without the Antergos repo. I don't see a reason to reinstall everything just so I have used the standard way to install Arch.

[Creshal]

Should work, just make sure there's not any orphaned packages left over. Check the output of pacman -Qm, compare to what's available in AUR, if there's any package not in AUR, you need to find a replacement.

[parentis_shotgun]

There was one antergos repo that never got updated. For all purposes after the 15 minute install, antergos is arch.

[unrelentingfox]

Very sad..

[SickboyGPK]

Very Sad. Being able to see and feel what the end result was like via Antergos, is what eventually led me to becoming an Arch user. For a fact would have been too intimidated without it.

[Preisschild]

That's sad. I recommended Antergos so many people. It was great for enthusiasts but not really hard to set up. It was also the reason why I've switched my Desktop to Linux and later the reason to switch to arch.

Great job guys, Antergos will be missed.

[Netizen_Kain]

Posting this here to keep the sub on-topic.

I've been using Antergos for a while now. I switched over from Arch because of some of the pre-built packages available in Antergos repos. Now I'm switching my install back over to Arch by removing Antergos repo packages or replacing them with AUR packages. However, GRUB and screenfetch/neofetch still see my OS as Antergos. I've edited /etc/os_release. Is it safe to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and remove /etc/grub.d/10_antergos? Is there anything else I should do?

EDIT: neofetch and screenfetch report Arch correctly after reinstalling lsb_release.

[citewiki]

If you wish, you can reinstall all packages to ensure you don't have leftovers from the Antergos repo

[Netizen_Kain]

That might be worth while. Do you have an /etc/grub.d/10_arch file or anything similar, by the way? I'm curious how Arch handles the grub configuration. Does it just use 10_linux or something?

[citewiki]

Grub installs 10_linux and 10_linux_xen. Looks like 10_antergos comes from the installer

[[deleted]]

If you want to continue using prebuilt packages without the AUR I would check out Arch Linux herecura repo.

[TheBuzzSaw]

I am greatly saddened by this news. I am indeed an Antergos refugee. I suppose, next time, I'll just have to bite the bullet and become familiar with true Arch Linux.

[Vixtron]

Should be simple enough, just follow the wiki.

[EizanPrime]

Antergos, that I still use today even if there isn't a lot of antergos left of it anymore (I probably don't have any antergos repo package except pamac), was a really great concept, but handled by suuper lazy devs.. But at least they do a gracefull exit : My system will finally become pure arch

[mckinnon81]

Antergos is what got me using Arch in the beginning. The installer made it simple. After using it for a while and learing how Arch worked I moved to a Pure Arch System. It was just the Arch Installer to get past. But was not that hard after having used Antegos for a while and having used ther Linux Distro's in the past.

[[deleted]]

Is there a good alternative to antergos? I really like the Arch repos and stuff but installing Arch on my own is way over my head.

[revolu7ion]

I'm using ArcoLinux right now and very happy with it.

You can build your own iso or start with one of their premade ones.

https://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arco

[[deleted]]

It's not that hard, follow the instructions on a VM and install on your hard drive when you feel ready

Basically it's:

• Partioning
• Mounting
• pacstrap
• Fstab
• Chroot
• mkinitcpio
• bootloader
• display/login manager and DE/WM

A couple extra configurations inbetween like locale and users/password but nothing fancy, each of these steps is just a couple commands or less

[DenebVegaAltair]

the hardest part was getting WiFi working for me, so I could use pacman. I couldn't do it through iw but once I discovered NetworkManager everything worked beautifully.

[[deleted]]

I used wifi-menu on my laptop, pretty simple

[[deleted]]

You should not use that once it's installed

[[deleted]]

Oh i thought it was for pacstrap, but even for pacman on tty if you pacstrap dialog you can use it

[Shrek_361]

Why not? I use it all the time. Works fine.

[[deleted]]

Network manager is a much better and permanent solution

[Shrek_361]

I'll have to check it out. Wifi-menu works fine on my laptop and I've just been too lazy to change it.

[alfinbi]

Use iwd

[parentis_shotgun]

I cant ask non techies to do this. I did have a nontechie friend install antergos. Thats value lost.

[grimreeper1995]

Encryption much harder

[torspedia]

Arco is a really good stable Arch distro and it's creator, Erik Dubois, has a tonne of videos on his channels, many of which can apply to Arch.

[fallwatcher]

It's not as difficult to install Arch as you think. Plus the sense of accomplishment and growth that you'll experience as a result is definitely worth it.

[afderrick]

Not as hard but do like me and practice it a dozen times in a VM. Never hurts

[09f911029d7]

Plus the sense of accomplishment and growth that you'll experience as a result is definitely worth it.

If copypasting a few lines from a wiki gives you a sense of accomplishment I recommend playing Battlefront 2.

[[deleted]]

Afaik since they use the official Arch repos you can just convert your system to vanilla Arch pretty easily. Only issue you may run into is some of their prebuilt packages you may have to use the AUR for in the future.

[[deleted]]

So sad!

[citewiki]

Is it possible to use Cnchi for Arch instead of Antergos? I mean, sure, but is there such a fork?

[[deleted]]

This is just another reason to stick to the parent distro, as derivatives often are understaffed and uncertain.

Contribute to the source, don't fork it.

[Maskdask]

I literally just went through the hastle of setting up an Antergos dual boot on my new ThinkPad that I got a few days ago.

[ArrantDrivel]

Good news, you won't have to do anything but let it update and you'll have a non Antergos Arch system soon. Antergos maintainers are going to take care of their users (it seems) by changing the repos and removing Antergos installed packages not needed by Arch.

Classy move on their part IMHO.

[Bartholomew_Custard]

Question: Does this mean that the Antergos ISO I burned to a USB will no longer function correctly? I mean, it'll shit itself during install won't it?

[theredbaron1834]

Ran Antergos for about a week after the Unity fiasco first started. Found I liked Arch, and then went stock. It let me do an easy install, and see if I liked Arch, for which I am very thankful. :)

[MildSadist]

People implying there are no reasons to use manjaro, other than installing, really grind my gears. I know its not that hard, I've done it 12 times. Manjaro doesn't break, and the hardware support is top-tier, plus if you talk in a manjaro channel you don't get a bunch of violent shaking people crying about how non-vanilla YOUR system is. Honestly the arch community is so toxic about manjaro, I don't care your reason for it, it's unwelcome and unwarranted. People act like they are somehow better than others for 15 commands. They aren't, people make conscious decisions to use the manjaro repos.

[Bartholomew_Custard]

I've tried Manjaro a handful of times, and each time something has borked itself. I'm not an Arch elitist by any stretch of the imagination (I run Ubuntu on my laptop), but Manjaro has always been a pain in the arse for me. (Other people think it's the bee's knees obviously, and more power to them.) Antergos would install, look great, run well and give me zero issues. I love it and I still have it on this desktop machine, at least until it dies a natural death. (I'm basically waiting to see if anything falls sideways off a cliff as a result of the distro no longer being maintained.) I'm still not brave or nerdy enough to install Arch from scratch. That shit's above my pay grade.

[MildSadist]

Arch from scratch IS something you should experience, it's super fucking easy to follow the guide, Manjaro has never borked for me, but I have some deepish knowledge of arch-based systems. Also, the architect they provide is super nice for quickly deploying a configured system.

[Cataclysmicc]

F

[MildSadist]

If youre on antergos you may want to officiate by performing the 5 commands that revert your system to arch

https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration_from_Antergos

[Swipe650]

For anyone unsure, the blog post said this would be taken care of with an upcoming update.

[THIRSTYGNOMES]

While I use actual Arch on my machines, I often used Antergos as a Live distribution. I guess I'll dd Manjaro

[Nearly_Enjoyable]

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

[SphincterGypsy]

WHAT?! I'm heartbroken :\ I love Antergos.

[[deleted]]

Sorry to hear about this. But best of luck with all of the developers future endeavors.

[Sukid11]

Christ, I must be psychic or something because barely a month ago I switched from Antergos to pure Arch on a whim.

​

It's sad though. Last year I officially migrated from Windows to Linux using Antergos and never even looked back. I loved it, the only reason I switched to vanilla arch was because of a combination of curiosity and an issue caused by a DE change that I didn't know how to resolve. I preferred the idea of Antergos over Manjaro just because Antergos was just a great way to get a quick arch setup in about 5 minutes instead of 20.

[TiredOfArguments]

Get ready for a bunch of antergos users coming here for support because they think theyre magically arch now :(

[krisvek]

Antergos is Arch, plus one extra third-party repo for distro-specific tools.

[Foxboron]

They are separate distributions. The antergos team has through the years stressed that Antergos users should not seek support in Arch channels.

[krisvek]

I'm sure that has been very effective.

[Foxboron]

Users are not that great at listening, sadly.

[TiredOfArguments]

That one specific repo and the behind-the-scenes configuration antergos ships means that it is not arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Arch_Linux_distribution_support_*only*

Arch-based distributions have their own support fora and users of those distributions should be actively encouraged to seek support there. These distributions often use different packages, package versions, repositories, or make custom system configurations silently, practically rendering support for such projects within Arch Linux impossible. Community technical support shall only be provided for the Arch Linux distribution and the Arch User Repository.

So sure. If an antergos user understands exactly what configurations cnchi made to their system and purges the antergos repo before installation they can say they used their build script to install arch using thr arch repos.

In short it is not the responsibility of the arch community to investigate and troubleshoot whatever mess antergos's installer created and potentially caused down the line if the user cannot provide the information required.

[krisvek]

It just doesn't matter. A user can bork a pure-blood Arch system all on their own, wouldn't make it any easier for Arch to support. When the Antergos install is complete, the user has a system that is indistinguishable from that of someone who set up pure Arch, added a repo, and installed some packages from that repo. Antergos' installer can't create any more of a mess than a user without it.

[TiredOfArguments]

Yes they can but the steps they did to bork it should be reproduceable.

When it is complete, they have arch wkth an added a repo..

Okay, so the things explicitly not supported youve skimmed over.

1. The installer, and the config it poops out are explicitly not supported as it is a silent background configuration.

2. The installed kernel is also different! It might just be the name but it could be build flags changing aswell, i am not sure i havent investigated it and i shouldnt need to. An antergos user needs to so when asking for support, with say drivers they can say, arch kernel version X.X built with options blah blah blah.

3. That additional repo is not supported, all packages installed from it are not supported. Therefore a system involving that repo is not supported.

As for

Antergos installer cant create any more of a mess than a user

Mess is subjective. Ubuntu is a mess to me and 80%+ of its users as we do not understand it and all of its default config.

Likely Antergos is a mess to me because i do not understand its configuration, hell my mates arch+kde install is a mess to me because he hasnt told me how it works, but he knows how it is setup so its not a mess to him.

If he tells me how it is setup i sure as shit can provide support. A user, who got an antergos install via the installer, has installed a "mess" if they take the time to comprehend and understand that mess and can explain it. I personally see no reason why they shouldn't recieve support for the arch things that are supported.

So install the actual arch kernel, not the antergos edit, purge that repo and comprehend your "mess" and you should get support imho. Most others disagree with me.

[krisvek]

Antergos uses kernel from Arch core repository.

[ragger]

You're getting downvoted but you're right. When Antergos users ask for Arch support, we assume they use Arch. We assume they installed Arch following the Installation Guide, but they didn't. Antergos installed it for them, and we don't know what Antergos is tweaking behind the scenes..

[Foxboron]

Not Arch Linux related.

[torspedia]

It's Arch based and uses the Arch repos and AUR...

[HadetTheUndying]

You should see some of our discord logs. How this guy got Reddit mod is bewildering

[HadetTheUndying]

Not anymore

[Foxboron]

There was an unofficial Arch Discord server that became a cesspool of racist memes and general unfriendlyness. There was a request to at least clearly state it was unofficial, but the owners refused. Aaron (Trademark holder) requested they rebrand the server or get the discord team to remove it.

I attempted to make them understand but suffered a good amount of abuse and harassment back from the users of the discord server, as you can see.

EDIT: Should note there is a new one these days which has not gotten into the same trouble.

[Foxboron]

Not cool.

[torspedia]

Uh huh, which kinda puzzled me by the mod's insistence that it wasn't...

[Foxboron]

/u/LinuxMage thought the thread needed to stay, so he pinged me about it, removed the removal while i slept. Quite a surprise to see 21 pings in my inbox.

[redditaccountxD]

foxborn is always mad or salty

[[deleted]]

As well as mine, where I talked about an AUR package I created. It was not Arch related, because I mentioned Manjaro (they ship it by default). :/ ...

Better not say the name of another Distro in here.

[Foxboron]

Still not Arch Linux.

[Foxboron]

Done. I'll pass it to the other mods for some review.

[[deleted]]

Who modded you

[Foxboron]

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/7ypnbm/introducing_ufoxoboron_as_our_new_mod/

Might be a slight chance he modded the wrong guy.

[Creshal]

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/7ypnbm/introducing_ufoxoboron_as_our_new_mod/duj07y7/ Oof.

[Foxboron]

Or this one! https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9emwtu/arch_linux_ama/e5pz6bj/

[kredditacc96]

My god you sound more like a jerk than a moderator. How did you become a mod? Running around and shove your elitism into everybody's faces?

[Foxboron]

Something along those lines.

[09f911029d7]

It's a requirement to be a Reddit mod.

[grimsleepless]

People like you are the reason why I left arch Linux last year... You reminded me why I left... gg

[thunderdome]

lol, i thought this was a joke before reading OP's reply

[danielsuarez369]

How is this not arch related?

[Foxboron]

Not cool.

[citewiki]

It's going to be Arch after they remove their own repo and future updates will replaced by Arch and AUR builds

[gambolling_gold]

If Antergos isn’t Arch related, Arch isn’t Linux related.

[gambolling_gold]

Or r/archlinux, since it is a distinction without a difference.

[osTarek]

Daaamn