The Arch Linux Enthusiast Starter Pack

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A meme presented as a screenshot of a post, likely from an imageboard or forum, with a dark background. At the top is the blue and grey logo for Arch Linux, which includes the text 'archlinux' and the tagline 'A simple, lightweight linux distribution.' Below the logo, there is a list of four commands, each prefixed with a '>', reminiscent of 4chan's greentext format. The commands are: '>archinstall', '>install snap', '>install steam', and '>install Edge'. At the very bottom, in a different color, is the quote: '>"haha I use Arch btw >:3"'. The humor is deeply rooted in Linux community in-jokes. It satirizes individuals who adopt Arch Linux for the social status it supposedly confers ('I use Arch, btw' is a meme for this) but then immediately install software that contradicts the distribution's core philosophy of minimalism, user control, and reliance on its native package manager (pacman) and the Arch User Repository. Installing Snap (a competing package format from Ubuntu's developer), Steam (a large proprietary gaming client), and especially Microsoft Edge (a Microsoft browser) is seen as antithetical to the typical Arch user's mindset, creating a portrait of a poser

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick This is the developer equivalent of buying a manual track car and then complaining it doesn't have cruise control or a good infotainment system. The point wasn't convenience; the point was control

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

This is the developer equivalent of buying a manual track car and then complaining it doesn't have cruise control or a good infotainment system. The point wasn't convenience; the point was control
Anonymous

Running archinstall and then adding Snap, Steam, and Edge is like starting from a scratch Docker image, copying in /usr, /lib, and X11 - then bragging about your 12 MB base layer
Anonymous

The real joke is using archinstall instead of manually partitioning with fdisk, configuring systemd-boot, and compiling your own kernel - then having the audacity to install snap packages, which is basically admitting you wanted Ubuntu all along but needed the street cred
Anonymous

The classic Arch user journey: spend 6 hours meticulously crafting a minimal system from scratch, reading the wiki religiously, and mastering pacman... only to immediately install Snap, Steam, and Edge - essentially recreating Ubuntu with extra steps and a superiority complex. At least they'll have plenty of opportunities to mention they use Arch btw while waiting for those AUR builds to compile
Anonymous

Arch minimalism: run archinstall, then install snapd and Edge - desktop microservices where each app drags its own squashfs and systemd units. But sure, “I use Arch, btw.”
Anonymous

Peak Arch: archinstalling Snap for that 'lightweight' gateway to Ubuntu's snap hell on a rolling release
Anonymous

KISS in 2025: run archinstall, enable snapd, then yay -S microsoft-edge-stable-bin steam - congrats, you just built ChromeOS with extra steps (but yes, btw you use Arch)
@danylo1554 2y

average Linux user nowadays
@sylfn 2y

nothing mentioned is used by me except arch linux i use arch btw
@Jiujiteir0 2y

whole distro discussion is a time scam just use anything other than windows.
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  macos 😈
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  it’s just a working linux amirite folks ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  macos iirc is built on top of opensource bsd kernel (Darwin)
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  aaaaand its not that linux
  
  @slyveek 2y
  
  It works better than windows Also macbooks have pretty long battery life, and os is also responsible for that One problem: expensive Macos is unix based (if I remember right) and has some similarities with linux It has more professional software than linux (adobe software as example (don't you dare tell something about adobe it's bad but it's used as standard for lots of things)) If macos wasn't apple device exclusive I'd use it instead of windows
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  tl;dr it’s convenient
@vladyslav_google 2y

I'm using Ubuntu
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  try arch
  
  @vladyslav_google 2y
  
  For what? I want to work on OS, where all necessary configurations has already been set up for me, and i'm ready to go after the installation. Ubuntu is perfect for this kind of desire.
@NuclearEnergy 2y

who tf uses snap and edge on arch
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  who tf uses snap and edge
  
  @NuclearEnergy 2y
  
  ikr
@Jiujiteir0 2y

yeah I know it’s a Unix system I just like to make unfunny jokes that’s all
Deleted Account 2y

linux users show their whole personality by saying they use linux
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  i am a cute girl this is my whole personality
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  how much do you weigh?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  about 58 kg
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  arch is 1 gb only, try better
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  the what
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  arch is whooping 1 gb
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  why are there two femboys in this chat
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  wdym femboys
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  we're girls dummy
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  🥺
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  ew
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  does this imply you're gay then
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  no
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  i'm honestly confused
Deleted Account 2y

just don't like women
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  why
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  no penis
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  so you are gay?
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  I'm straight
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  but you hate women and are apparently a man
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  ok and?
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  how the hell can you even love someone you hate
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  have you heard of "lovehate" thing?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  ctx fanfiction
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  yea i thought that wasn't real
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  love women with dicks
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  yeah that complicates things
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  it actually explains everything. but i suspected such things here
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  i
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  the only reason for disliking women is found
@Jiujiteir0 2y

also rn my normalfriends are crying cos they used windows 7 their whole life and in a week steam and all other shit won’t support it getting a kick out of this whole situation ngl ( ＾∀＾)
Deleted Account 2y

no stick = no drip
@Vlasoov 2y

>install snap Dude kill yourself 😁
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  delete snap Resurrect yourself
  
  @Vlasoov 2y
  
  It's not a reversible action
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  have you heard of Natsuki Subaru? Jesus Christ?
  
  @Vlasoov 2y
  
  I believe only in Linux supremacy
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  systemd?
  
  @Vlasoov 2y
  
  Indifferent. But Wayland 😍
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  and my system can run wayland only thru llvmpipe
  
  @CcxCZ 2y
  
  HardenedBSD 😈
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  no i haven't heard of Jesus who is she?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  why are you misgendering jesus
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  that's a reference to a joke i'm unlikely to find on the internet atm
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  BECAUSE YOU FUCKING BLOCKED REDDIT
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  yeah that Japanese guy who roamed Nazareth and other places right?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  why...
Deleted Account 2y

strange rules in the chat: almost everyone knows Russian, but you still have to write in English
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  almost everyone does not mean *everyone*
2. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  because it isn't "almost everyone" ig
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  icho
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  there's a point in being inclusive
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  and using a more common language despite most people understanding another is one of the ways to reach that inclusivity
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  neeerd
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  i'm... a bit nerdy about morals, i guess, yeah
  
  Deleted Account 2y
  
  be inclusive cringe
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  be inclusive based
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  being reclusive is mega based
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  reclusive?
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  > avoiding the company of other people; solitary.
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  honestly, what does "cringe" and "based" even mean?
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  based on what on your fucking opinion
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  like, there's meaning behind words, typically, and it seems to me cringe/based are a raw representation of emotion
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  and it's not used as, "i think this is cringe", it's just "this is cringe", which somehow equates emotion to reality
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  and that's quite a slippery slope
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  well jokes aside real world has too many parameters (most of them unknown) to really pinpoint true or false points. most of our terms are really abstracted (in a way where even exact same definitions can be viewed differently by different people) So based and cringe is another way to saying true or false. and as most things, true/false vastly vary in people.
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  idk, to me "true" and "false" are absolute and objective. if i think something is true for me but might not be true for others, i'll say "I think'. if i think something is true generally, but someone proves this is not, in fact, the case, i'll backtrack and say "this might or might not be true, but i assume this is true as a personal philosophy"
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  well you just proved a point. If you throw away all abstraction, there is no absolute and objective things, because we cannot comprehend a world as is, we have interpreters, and even thought these interpretations are generally same in Homo sapiens, they still give us our version of a world. through science and philosophy we deducted mostly “true” and mostly “false” statements about the world, but those things change every 50-100 years, if not faster.
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  Circling back to the topic of inclusivity. definition of “ability to include” is really, really abstracted. It doesn’t encapsulate billions of parameters it consists of, and most of all, parameters that are impacted through implementation of actions deemed “inclusive” I’ll illustrate a point (through very abstracted means too, but forgive me, I’m only human, after all): we have a place where people of certain belief system meet. they decide that they should include people of different beliefs, cos in that system of beliefs — “inclusiveness” is good. it’s a logical and morally right thing to do for them. Some time passes, and people in this place start to take sides and clash (generally through history — this happens) Was including people in the first place good(true) or a bad(false) decision?
  
  @azizhakberdiev 2y
  
  too much text. I use arch btw
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  based
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  cringe = false based = true
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  so being inclusive is not true or what
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  define inclusive
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  idk, i guess ask @dgshng
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  idk. is being ethical cringe?
3. @callofvoid0 2y
  
  I beg to differ
@sylfn 2y

you explicitly told me to do so
1. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  well yes
@sylfn 2y

reddit blocked me i blocked reddit for alisa
1. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  what.
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  ive been banned
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  for some violations
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  such as?..
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  idk really
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  they dont say which exactly
@Jiujiteir0 2y

yeah. take the monkpill
@sylfn 2y

inclusive: able to include
1. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  can't argue with that
@NaNmber 2y

so?
@Jiujiteir0 2y

and adding the fact that most of people thought process doesn’t include time (cos prediction is impossibly complex) you can’t really define a good decision. it can be good and logical today and horrendous in 10 20 30 years.
@callofvoid0 2y

what do you mean by snap? it's an online taxi service here like uber
@callofvoid0 2y

somebody from gov blocked reddit for me we are not the same
@mira_the_cat 2y

then I'll just write my own os)
@AmindaEU 2y

Does SteamOS count as Arch Linux?
1. @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  no. also it doesn’t matter
@GLXBX 2y

snap🤢
1. @endisn16h 2y
  
  more like everything on the picture🤢
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  snapchat?
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  or snapp?
2. @callofvoid0 2y
  
  what's that?
  
  @GLXBX 2y
  
  Packet manager provided by Canonical From my experience, tends to provide partially broken apps and consume quite some extra disk space
  
  @AmindaEU 2y
  
  I share your experience and hate it not having autoremove or uninstall unused command as it tends to gather packages named "core" that aren't actually needed and thus have out of space issues
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  why would someone use snap…
  
  @AmindaEU 2y
  
  Newer golang than in Debian or Ubuntu LTS reports
  
  @Jiujiteir0 2y
  
  and only in snap i presume? my condolences
  
  @chupasaurus 2y
  
  Sounds like a misunderstanding issue. I.e. try to make a distro with multiple libc versions.
@Hollow_Arigo 2y

Okay, edge are shit but what is the problem with steam?
1. @AmindaEU 2y
  
  Is it installed via snap? I would use the flatpak
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  No?
2. @askhat_t2 2y
  
  And what is the problem with Edge? I use it in Windows and Ubuntu. Can't say it is worse then Chrome.
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  Microsoft.
  
  @digital_insanity 2y
  
  what's the deal with MS, it's not 90s anymore lol
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  Telemetry
  
  @digital_insanity 2y
  
  1. Most of it can be disabled 2. Using this argument you should throw away your phone, cause Apple/Google collect even more data Childish arguments tbh
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  Yes, i thrown the fuck out stock rom on my phone and install custom without Gaps, next question?
  
  @digital_insanity 2y
  
  No more questions, I see you are beyond saving
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  Thanks
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  1.And it's enabling after update os browser/system
@heito_r 2y

>use linux, then you'll be free! >but don't install these programs cause I say they're bad!

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