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[–] 133 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Arch is only the larval stage. When a Linuxite consumes enough CLI, they metamorphose into one of two adult forms: a Void user, or a NixOS user. As these two adult forms are incompatible, this is a rare case of species divergence within a life cycle. Even more oddly, like the axolotl, many Arch users never leave the larval stage, and continue living comfortably in their ecological niche.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If NixOS and Void are the adult form then what is the form of FreeBSD and OpenBSD? Old form?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Different species. They're not in the Linuxite clade.

    The Linuxite taxa have far higher diversity due to faster mutation rates; the BSD genus has far fewer species, and can't cross-breed with Linuxites.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Daamn, I'm a pupa (Arch -> Debian + Nix)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, that comment leaves out the "I learned a lot from Arch, but don't have the time to manage evertything anymore" crowd, which goes Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian/Mint/Fedora

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I discovered that EndeavourOS satisfied that for me, without me having to give up Arch. And snapper+btrfs-grub has eliminated any interest in messing about with the new line of immutable systems. The only tempting distro I might spend time in is Chimera Linux (link, b/c of an unfortunate naming conflict) which (a little hilariously) is an attempt to make a Linux distro that's purely Gnu-free. Chimera also runs dinit instead of systemd, and that's interesting.

    Anyway, there are a couple of options that let a user stay in Arch but make things less... fussy.

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