I don't use either now. I have tried both. When I started with Ubuntu i was great; fast, light, all the good stuff. Then it started to get bloated and wouldn't run on my old machine... So I moved to Arch and it saved me and I used it for years.
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People praising Arch, people hating on Ubuntu, meanwhile me on Debian satisifed with the minimalism.
Your opinion is outdated.
While true, at least I ain’t getting the updates that bloat applications with Ai.. yet
Is that happening on Ubuntu?
Slackware users, "Those Arch users are crazy."
It's funny because I see the same cult behavior, but for Fedora. I've never understood the point of this distribution that has never worked well for me.
I'm on Manjaro by the way, because I love everything about Arch except the release style.
I'm using Fedora, but I'm not going to say it's my favorite. I liked MX and OpenSUSE a lot. Just had a hard time with running them on a computer. Fedora just worked out the box.
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For me, Ubuntu is ugly as all hell and comes with so much I dont need. It also ran slow on the first machine I ever installed it on. I like Arch because I got my feet wet there. It was my classroom.
arch is slop for normies pretending to be chads, real chads use gentoo and openbsd
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I don't really understand either. Where are the Gentoo and LFS elitists? It seams like there should be more of those than arch elitests. Maybe it's just because more people use arch.
it was made by rocky horror picture show
Anything really polarizing can end up with a cult following. Just look at Rust.
Rust introduces novel features and makes notable changes from its ancestors.
Arch was just blue Gentoo.
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because they used to be special. "I run linux", matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, "I'm in", awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker...
but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain't special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.