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Bending the question a little but my second "first impression" of Arch's "simplicity" surprised me the most.
I was running Gentoo for a while before deciding to move back, and I was surprised that somehow I had
Granted, I had jumped on Gentoo because of misconceptions (speed, ricing, the idea that I needed USE flags), but going back, I saw things more clearly:
systemctl status
andjournalctl
, or managingsystemd-logind
instead of usingseatd
and friends).Not bashing on Gentoo or anything, but it's when I realized why Arch was "simple." Even me sorely missing
/etc/portage/patches
was quelled byparu -S <pkg> --fm vim --savechanges
.And Arch traveling at the speed of simplicity even quantifiably helped: Had to download
aur/teams
the other day with nine-minute warning.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's funny. I switched from Slackware to Gentoo in 2003 because it was simpler.
Yeah, it's pretty funny how distros just passed each other by like that. Back then it was Debian that was regarded as the hyper-poweruser distro:
And then now there are plenty of people reading this thread who liked Windows 7. As time passed, their grade on the ease-of-use of A passed the don't-get-in-my-way of B, and a load of Windows 10ers jumped ship to Linus & Friends, the last place their Windows 7 selves would have expected to go. Always a reminder that the end of history isn't now.
I just wish more distros made their terminal prompt and updater look as good as Gentoo's, it's weirdly the one thing I miss most about messing around with it