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Arch? Beats me - I just apt-get my way through with Debian
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Arch? Beats me - I just apt-get my way through with Debian

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Photograph of the St. Louis Gateway Arch at dusk, city skyline lit up, and its reflection in the Mississippi River below. In the top-left corner, bold red text reads: "Arch or something. I don't know, I use debian" (all lowercase except the initial A). The meme plays on the homonym between the physical "arch" monument and the popular Arch Linux distribution, with the speaker humorously distancing themselves by declaring loyalty to Debian. For developers, it riffs on long-running Linux distro wars, package-manager culture (pacman vs apt), and the tribalism found in open-source communities

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick If the Gateway Arch were a package, Arch users would arrive with raw ore and a PKGBUILD, while the Debian crowd would wait two freeze cycles and just `apt-get install gateway-arch-stable`
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    If the Gateway Arch were a package, Arch users would arrive with raw ore and a PKGBUILD, while the Debian crowd would wait two freeze cycles and just `apt-get install gateway-arch-stable`

  2. Anonymous

    Just like the Gateway Arch requires careful engineering to remain stable, Arch Linux users spend their weekends engineering their system to remain bootable - meanwhile, Debian users are out there actually shipping production code because their package manager hasn't broken in the last decade

  3. Anonymous

    The perfect encapsulation of Linux distribution discourse: Arch users will tell you they use Arch within 30 seconds of meeting you, while Debian users are too busy running stable production systems to care about your bleeding-edge package versions. This meme brilliantly captures the Debian user's pragmatic indifference to Arch's cult-like following - they're not dismissive out of ignorance, but rather from the hard-won wisdom that 'boring' stability beats 'exciting' manual intervention at 3 AM when your rolling release breaks after an update

  4. Anonymous

    Nice Arch - I’ll admire it from Debian; the only rolling release I want is the Mississippi, not my prod kernel after pacman -Syu

  5. Anonymous

    Arch users RTFM into oblivion; Debian admins apt update and conquer production unscathed

  6. Anonymous

    Arch for the laptop, Debian for the pager - ABI stability beats AUR dopamine every time

  7. Deleted Account 5y

    i use arch btw

  8. @iGrino 5y

    Request help of Capitain Obvious

  9. @SuperiorProgramming 5y

    Made my day

  10. @CoolyFooly 5y

    I use gentoo btw

  11. @PatiHox 5y

    Love the format

  12. @unsafe_andrew 5y

    I use Fedora btw

    1. Deleted Account 5y

      Same

    2. @percnt 5y

      same

  13. @unsafe_andrew 5y

    And my friend uses mint btw

  14. Deleted Account 5y

    I use endeavouros btw

    1. @RiedleroD 5y

      as an arch user, I feel very inclined to join this discussion :)

  15. @gDanix 5y

    I just use my BIOS to run my programs on bare metal. Modern OSes are for pussies...

  16. @CoolyFooly 5y

    I load code directly into RAM and reset the CPU, BIOS are for pussies

  17. @sylfn 5y

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Arch

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