 It wasn't too long ago that I was an Arch fanboy if you had asked me what my all-time favorite distribution was You would probably hear me say some variant of arch Linux either a arch based distro or arch itself I would have told you that the AUR was the best thing on Linux And I would have fought for that opinion to the death Like I have seriously talked about this before where I would tell you that the reason why Arch is better than every other distro is because the AUR exists and I've even done a podcast with Tyler talking about how I truly honestly thought at the time that the AUR was basically God's gift to man despite the hyperbole and all of the Stuff that goes along with being an arch fanboy. I have come to Jesus a little bit about my opinions on Arch Linux I'm not an arch fanboy anymore now some of that is because Arch did me wrong and ruined my install and all this stuff now most of that as I've discussed in previous videos was my fault But Arch crashed I couldn't get it working again, and I moved to Fedora now I'm a Fedora fanboy so when it comes down to my interest in Linux distributions. I'm Kind of fickle I move from one to another what my favorite is really depends on what I'm using at the moment but my experience over the last four months with Fedora has made me realize something and that is a Truth that I think is going to piss a lot of people off and that is that Arch Linux itself is Overrated it really is and I know like I said I'm going to make a lot of people angry when I say that because I'm not saying that Arch is bad or that you shouldn't use it or that people who use it shouldn't be fans of it but the people who are so into Arch Linux have a tendency to Gloss over its flaws for one thing, but also they have a tendency to boost up The things that are supposedly better about it than everything else So specifically there are two things that everyone claims are better about Arch Linux first It's a rolling release distribution. So you get the latest and greatest of every package That's the first one the second one is obviously the AUR and the AUR for those of you who have never used Arch Linux before is A community repository where basically if you have an idea for a piece of software that you might need It's probably there. It is such a large repository of stuff That you can get pretty much anything in it and the idea behind it is still really really good and when I was an Arch fan boy I would have died for the AUR the damn thing was so good and I would have just fought for it To the death, but now that I'm away from the you are and I have been now for almost four months I have to say I don't miss it like I thought for sure like when I switched to fedora as I Have every time I've switched away from Arch before I thought for sure that I would miss the AUR and that the AUR would be the reason Why I had one day scurry back to arch Linux or an arch based distro and just be happy there for the rest of my Linux career It hasn't happened in four months And I don't think that it's going to happen now simply because like I said I don't miss the you are and like I said before when I say that arch and the you are are overrated I'm not saying that they're bad or even that you shouldn't use them I really am not what I am saying is that they Aren't so great that they necessarily make arch the best Linux distro Because that is the argument that a lot of people have like a you are is on arch Therefore arch is the best distro that argument doesn't really work if it's really really easy to live without the you are and it is now a lot of people obviously live without the you are and Arguing that you can't live without it is kind of dumb But a lot of people do argue that because they have the you are there somehow better Off than the people who don't have they you are and the question then comes are they really and I have to say I don't actually think so the reason why I say that is because if you use another distro Chances are you're going to have just as wide a software selection as you would if you had arch in a you are now Do you have as easy of an access to that software selection on other distros? Maybe not so for example on fedora Because I don't have the you are I often times have to build my own packages So when I come across a application that's not in the fedora repositories I can usually find it and build it or and this is where Everything kind of becomes a little bit muddied is that fedora has access as does every Linux distribution to flat pack and Flathub a lot of the applications that I probably would have installed from the you are I either get from Flathub or I can build on my own from source now like I said that's not as easy as just downloading it from the you are That's true. If your argument is that you can get easier access to software on arch That's an argument that I could probably get behind even though It's not a hundred percent true all the time but to say that arch has access to more software because of they you are Maybe technically true, but yeah, I don't think it's gonna be as big a gulf as it used to be so the bottom line when it comes to arch Linux in the you are is That I no longer have the rose colored glasses on I no longer have the Investment in arch Linux that I used to have because I no longer use it now One would say one could argue that I have an investment in fedora and there's a reason now why there are Approximately 20 fedora videos on my channel in the last four months That argument is a good one. I have become a fedora fanboy and just like when I was with arch I have rose colored glasses on when it comes to fedora There are obvious flaws in fedora that I try to ignore every single day These are big flaws Some of them aren't necessarily things that affect me day-to-day But are kind of looming in the background and the big one is that fedora is an experimental distro. It's meant for being an upstream experimental playground basically for red hat and one day Fedora is going to have a new thing come out Maybe the system D guys have decided to blow it up and make something new, you know Similar to what they did from Paul's audio to pipe wire or from X orb to Wayland, you know They've decided they want to do something new that's going to completely change everything again Fedora is going to get that stuff first and as we found out with Wayland and pipe wire when that kind of stuff first comes out, it's kind of bad and That day is going to be a day of sorrow for me when it comes to fedora's because when I get that new stuff and it doesn't work my Absolutely wonderful experience on fedora. Well, it's going to be quite upsetting Sadly because like I said, it's gonna be kind of like an end of an era so the point I'm trying to make out of all of this is that when you argue for Your favorite distro you are biased Everyone is it doesn't matter how objective you think you are or can be you hold certain biases towards the things that you use and That bias Transfers into every argument that you make so if you are a fervent arch Linux in a you are a user And you think those things are the gold standard you're going to Proclaim that to the world and Expect everyone to believe that you think that it's true even though. It's not necessarily any truer than anything else Or I should say it's not any truer than me saying fedora is the best Linux distro because it's the most stable on my computer You know what I mean? Just because it happens to work fantastically for me doesn't necessarily it's going to work fantastically for everyone else It's the same thing for any distribution now I've obviously talked about the whole there's no best Linux distribution out there before but there is a Good argument to be made when it comes to this type of argument that the arch Linux users are the worst of the bunch Now don't get me wrong I have a ton of arch Linux users out there in my audience and I expect to hear from every single one of them down in the Comment sections below and I'm assuming that at least half of them are going to hit done subscribe button Now that they've seen this title. I'm assuming some of them probably didn't even make it this far if they even watch the video at all I'm assuming they probably just hit the unsubscribe button without even watching it given that the title I plan on using is going to be very inflammatory But I think that that actually kind of proves my point that if you say something bad about arch Linux You are going to be in trouble with the arch community arch Linux to a lot of people is unassailable That isn't necessarily a unique quality a lot of people say the same thing about gentoo and emacs and them I do them a lot and People do the same thing about Ubuntu and a lot of other distros like every distro has its fans But it feels like the arch folks are the worst about the whole thing they are very invested in arch being the best Linux distro and Saying otherwise gets you in a little bit of trouble with them and Causes them to become very defensive about it. So I think at the end of the day It's important for everyone no matter what distribution you use to realize that your Interest in your distribution is a good thing But you also have to realize that everyone else has their own interests in their distro and those might not necessarily be the most compatible things but also The fact that everyone gets to have their own likes and dislikes when it comes to Linux and everything else, obviously is Also at the end of the day a very good thing It's not only for the world at large, but also for Linux. It allows us to have Choices for when Inevitably we need to move on to another distribution It also allows us to have Conversations with people who we might not agree with all the time simply because they used something different and have other Experiences than we might have so a little bit of a rambly video I know like I said that the title that I plan on using for this is going to piss a lot of people off I hope that people made it to the end Because it's not really as bad as the title suggests it's going to be although it might still be just as bad But I wanted to talk about this because I've had some experiences since I've left arch that have not been Very positive when it comes to my interactions with the arch community There are some people out there not nearly everyone I just want to don't want to generalize and say all the arch links community is the core But I have had some bad apples come into my comments basically saying how could you Betray arch Linux like this, you know, how could you possibly think badly about arch Linux? You know all this stuff and it's just it kind of Makes you realize that sometimes there are a certain segment of a you know Portion of a community a small portion of a community that kind of really does give it a bad name I've talked about that before as well But it does really feel like the arch Linux guys or at least a portion of the arch Linux guys have created this reputation for their superiority and It kind of rubs the rest of us the wrong way So that's it for this video if you have comments on this which I'm sure a lot of people do Comments in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me on Twitter You can bitch at me on Twitter if you want to at the Linux cast you can follow you and master on Odyssey Those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the next cash just like all these fine people Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon YouTube. You guys are all Absolutely amazing. 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