Arch is aimed at people who know their shit so they can build their own distro based on how they imagine their distro to be. It is not a good distro for beginners and non power users, no matter how often you try to make your own repository, and how many GUI installers you make for it. There's a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram). That being that to use Arch, you need to have a basic understanding of the terminal. It is in no way hard to boot arch and type in archinstall. However, if you don't even know how to do that, your experience in whatever distro, no matter how arch based it is or not, will only last until you have a dependency error or some utter and total Arch bullshit® happens on your system and you have to run to the forums because you don't understand how a wiki works.
You want a bleeding edge distro? Use goddamn Opensuse Tumbleweed for all I care, it is on par with arch, and it has none of the arch stuff.
You have this one package that is only available on arch repos? Use goddamn flatpak and stop crying about flatpak being bloated, you probably don't even know what bloat means if you can't set up arch. And no, it dosent run worse. Those 0,0001 seconds don't matter.
You really want arch so you can be cool? Read the goddamn 50 page install guide and set it up, then we'll talk about those arch forks.
(Also, most arch forks that don't use arch repos break the aur, so you don't even have the one thing you want from arch)
Arch users are the sanctimonious vegans of the linux world. Bacon is delicious, and you are not special.
Damn why did you have to bring vegans into this lol
Because vegan bashing and arch bashing have in common having broadly stupid opinions ;)
My other thought was "obnoxious American tourists," but the bacon thing sealed it.
I can not agree more not everyone that uses arch is like this but every one of the Linux users that wants to be elitist about their distro runs arch based on how hard it is.
If you want to be low level to learn you run Linux from scratch. If you want bleeding edge you run tumbleweed or debian sid. If you want to run a distro that is only mildly harder to configure than a debian bootstrap install but less hard than running debian or redhat back in the 90s just for bragging rights you run arch.
Zoomers will never know the pain... and the joy and actually getting it installed!
Remember the first time you got a printer working in Linux? Better than sex....
That what makes it so cringe that they want that with arch.
Which always makes me laugh because I use Arch mainly because I'm a lazy ass and want something easy to maintain.
I tired it as well to see what this aur was all about but kinda hated it since it's so opaque if they wanted to be as hardcore as they say they would build packages by hand and that can be done on any distro.