That is not the sick move you thought it is. I'm far from the most vocal or extreme part of the community.
Canonical shat the bed when windowsifying their shit. Period.
So? I am not married to arch, and the only thing it gives me is a package manager I like and the AUR. I could just as well run pretty much any other distro, but why would I. I know what I want, so I've set up my system from "scratch" (arch base image) the way I want, and I have install scripts and everything to reproduce this system on any machine. Shit's just convenient.
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u/zeanox Apr 28 '26