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    [–] [email protected] 128 points 7 months 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.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

    Wow, this is so well explained, I'm making it my personal copypasta!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    Retired form of Linuxite is called Gentoo user

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

    They are the alolan forms.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

    I gunked up my system with too much AUR, even with endeavourOS. NixOS might be a bit more suitable for my ADHD brain.