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My answer was almost serious as well, and was answering the question "why not use Ubuntu if it's easier" and not "what is the advantage of Arch over Ubuntu?". T
by Nic0 15y ago
My answer was almost serious as well, and was answering the question "why not use Ubuntu if it's easier" and not "what is the advantage of Arch over Ubuntu?". They are two different questions.
Your question, now, is a much more open one, then more difficult to answer. This page try to explain the Arch Way https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
I wrote something that tried to explain why AUR is an important part of Arch Linux http://www.nicosphere.net/why-aur-is-part-of-the-arch-linux-success-2529/ http://www.nicosphere.net/why-aur-is-part-of-the-arch-linux-...
- Tichy 15y agoI thought my question was kind of the same. If there is no advantage of Arch, then it doesn't make sense to use it if it is harder to use. Unless you want to work on improving Arch.
- Nic0 15y agoYou're right, if Arch would not have some advantages, nobody would use it. Simplicity of use, packaging, configuration, understanding. No default choices as Unity, it's light and fast, a great distro to learn from, great community and documentation, and much more, that make Arch a great distribution widely used.
- Tichy 15y agoIf packaging really is easier, it might be interesting. It seems to be quite complicated to create debian packages.
- acomar 15y agoArch's advantage is simplicity. That does not, absolutely does not, mean that it's easier. Also keep in mind that to a large degree these things are a matter of preference. I like Arch's package manager over Debian's. Things like that have pros and cons, but on some level it breaks down to simple preference.