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I quite like Arch. Definitely has the package manager with the coolest command name, although the usage and flags are bit archaic, they should probably steal so

I quite like Arch. Definitely has the package manager with the coolest command name, although the usage and flags are bit archaic, they should probably steal some more ideas from FreeBSD. It allows me to build relatively minimal systems without having to compile everything from source. (yes, I'm a recovering Gentoo user) I recently installed the latest Ubuntu just to see where that has gone since I last used it years ago. I had to wipe it after less than one hour. I really should play around again with NixOS, looks like it has progressed quite a lot since I last encountered it.

dscrd 12y ago
"they should probably steal some more ideas from FreeBSD" Which ideas would you think are worth stealing from there?
- 616c 12y ago
  I think you mean stole, past tense. If you read much about the rationale of Arch, it was meant to imitate FreeBSD quite closely. This was especially true before the systemd migration, when there were only 1 or a few files in /etc you had to touch to configure almost everything in the system. It is clear they dervied the AUR concept from the ports system of FreeBSD fame. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_compared_to_other_distributions#The_.2ABSDs https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_compared_to_other_...