Bane Meme: You Merely Use Arch, I Was Born in Arch Linux

The Arch user doesn't just tell you they use Arch -- they were compiled from source in a minimal install environment, bootstrapped by pacman, and their first words were 'makepkg -si'

Some developers say they use Arch, btw. The true veterans just quietly close their tmux session from 2009 that's been compiling the kernel since before systemd was a thing

Some people learn vim after onboarding; the true Arch acolyte exits the womb with pacman -Syu already in their bash_history

The real power move is casually mentioning you compile your kernel from source while everyone else is still arguing about systemd vs init - but only after you've fixed their production outage with a one-liner you memorized from the Arch Wiki in 2012

The Arch user's journey: You think installing from GUI is your ally? You merely adopted the command line. I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see a desktop environment until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing to me but bloatware. The AUR betrays you because it belongs to me - along with the 47 hours I spent configuring my window manager to perfectly match my wallpaper's color scheme

Real Arch veterans don’t say btw; they schedule pacman -Syu with btrfs snapshots, diff .pacnew like PRs, and treat chroot rescues as routine maintenance windows

You ‘use Arch’ when you run pacman -Syu; you were born in it when you chroot from the live ISO to fix a dkms kernel bump and still make standup

You pacman -Syu monthly; I chroot into chaos daily since the great mirrorlist migrations