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Show HN: An Aesthetically Pleasing Arch Linux Distro

76 points by aswinmohanme 6y ago

agustif 6y ago
Hey this looks great! Can I use it alongside Big Sur on my MBP? dual-boot is an option?
- RealStickman_ 6y ago
  Had a quick look at the BIOS install blog post. It's recommending grub as a bootloader, so dual booting should work as long as you don't mess up in partitioning and accidentally delete or overwrite your other OS.
  - agustif 6y ago
    Well I'm on macOs Big Sur beta (just updated to the latest named 11 release). Was planning on backing up and doing a clean install somehow in the future anyway, and have been thinking about using linux for a while for a less-bloated coding envirorment So thanks for the tip, will check that out.
b1476 6y ago
The images don’t appear to scale correctly on mobile.
- RealStickman_ 6y ago
  Seems fine for me.
RealStickman_ 6y ago
Although I'm not really looking to replace any current install, I'll definitely check this out in a vm. See how many and what programs it has preinstalled and have a look through the themes. Maybe throw it on a machine next time I do a reinstall if it is as nice as it looks.
vlmutolo 6y ago
Alright, somebody tell me why this isn't as awesome as it looks and why I shouldn't immediately wipe my current install and use this instead.
- RunningDroid 6y ago
  The core of any argument against Arch is that it's a bleeding-edge Distro, which means more breakage.
  - nmstoker 6y ago
    That's a fair concern but in my experience you have lots of the benefits of being up near the edge with very little blood. It helps to read the Arch news link but normally I've missed it the rare time I ought to have checked it and you can still just figure things out and move on quickly. For years now I've had almost nothing break except some intermittent minor annoyance with trivial bits of KDE. I'll live!
- haecceity 6y ago
  Whenever I use an Arch laptop that I haven't touched in a while and need to do an update on it, there will be update conflicts that need to be resolved manually. I'm pretty sure this happened every time. There are tons of posts on the forum about update conflicts.
drinkcocacola 6y ago
The attention to detail is so high that the screenshots in the website are not even proportionally scaled. Just no.
- adamhearn 6y ago
  Try viewing it from mobile. It only gets worse.
vaughnegut 6y ago
This looks great, I was looking to try something new to replace Ubuntu on my laptop and I missed the AUR. So this'll be great to try out!
enricozb 6y ago
minimalist != that login screen
sloshnmosh 6y ago
This reminds me of another eye-popping distro but for pentesting (also Arch based) Black Arch
mraza007 6y ago
I must say this looks very clean and minimal but website doesn’t scale well on mobile If its opensource i can definitely help you with the website
- mraza007 6y ago
  Sorry i mean to say the image
Koshkin 6y ago
Offtopic: somehow I can't get off Slackware, please help me. (And no, I don't want to go down that rabbit arch-hole.)
karmakaze 6y ago
I can't stand landing pages that fly the 'opensource' flag then don't have any links to the source. The 'Donate' button was easy to find though. Also couldn't find any technical details on how this differs from other Arch distros and of course being new(er?) there's no Distrowatch entry.
j_walter 6y ago
I tried Deepin on my 4K laptop a few months ago to try it out and see how "beautiful" it was. Unfortunately I'm a laptop hoarder and when I go to reach for a laptop to use I tend to pull one that is running Kubuntu instead. I couldn't get used to the centered menu bar and a lack of being able to make changes was frustrating. I don't see this as much different than that...but I may give it a whirl when I get a few minutes to format that 4K laptop.

76 points by aswinmohanme 6y ago

agustif 6y ago

Hey this looks great! Can I use it alongside Big Sur on my MBP? dual-boot is an option?

RealStickman_ 6y ago
Had a quick look at the BIOS install blog post. It's recommending grub as a bootloader, so dual booting should work as long as you don't mess up in partitioning and accidentally delete or overwrite your other OS.
- agustif 6y ago
  Well I'm on macOs Big Sur beta (just updated to the latest named 11 release). Was planning on backing up and doing a clean install somehow in the future anyway, and have been thinking about using linux for a while for a less-bloated coding envirorment So thanks for the tip, will check that out.

b1476 6y ago

The images don’t appear to scale correctly on mobile.

RealStickman_ 6y ago
Seems fine for me.

RealStickman_ 6y ago

Although I'm not really looking to replace any current install, I'll definitely check this out in a vm. See how many and what programs it has preinstalled and have a look through the themes. Maybe throw it on a machine next time I do a reinstall if it is as nice as it looks.

vlmutolo 6y ago

Alright, somebody tell me why this isn't as awesome as it looks and why I shouldn't immediately wipe my current install and use this instead.

RunningDroid 6y ago
The core of any argument against Arch is that it's a bleeding-edge Distro, which means more breakage.
- nmstoker 6y ago
  That's a fair concern but in my experience you have lots of the benefits of being up near the edge with very little blood. It helps to read the Arch news link but normally I've missed it the rare time I ought to have checked it and you can still just figure things out and move on quickly. For years now I've had almost nothing break except some intermittent minor annoyance with trivial bits of KDE. I'll live!
haecceity 6y ago
Whenever I use an Arch laptop that I haven't touched in a while and need to do an update on it, there will be update conflicts that need to be resolved manually. I'm pretty sure this happened every time. There are tons of posts on the forum about update conflicts.

drinkcocacola 6y ago

The attention to detail is so high that the screenshots in the website are not even proportionally scaled. Just no.

adamhearn 6y ago
Try viewing it from mobile. It only gets worse.

vaughnegut 6y ago

This looks great, I was looking to try something new to replace Ubuntu on my laptop and I missed the AUR. So this'll be great to try out!

enricozb 6y ago

minimalist != that login screen

sloshnmosh 6y ago

This reminds me of another eye-popping distro but for pentesting (also Arch based) Black Arch

mraza007 6y ago

I must say this looks very clean and minimal but website doesn’t scale well on mobile If its opensource i can definitely help you with the website

mraza007 6y ago
Sorry i mean to say the image

Koshkin 6y ago

Offtopic: somehow I can't get off Slackware, please help me. (And no, I don't want to go down that rabbit arch-hole.)

karmakaze 6y ago

I can't stand landing pages that fly the 'opensource' flag then don't have any links to the source. The 'Donate' button was easy to find though. Also couldn't find any technical details on how this differs from other Arch distros and of course being new(er?) there's no Distrowatch entry.

j_walter 6y ago

I tried Deepin on my 4K laptop a few months ago to try it out and see how "beautiful" it was. Unfortunately I'm a laptop hoarder and when I go to reach for a laptop to use I tend to pull one that is running Kubuntu instead. I couldn't get used to the centered menu bar and a lack of being able to make changes was frustrating. I don't see this as much different than that...but I may give it a whirl when I get a few minutes to format that 4K laptop.