Sorry, but installing arch linux doesn't mean you are some computer master. You are just following instruction on a wiki. Anyone could install arch linux if felt like, and wanted to put some time into it.
Some people make arch linux their personality especially the forum.
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It's fast, highly customizable, and relatively lightweight. Also you get to tell people that you use Arch
hold on, doesn't this also apply to debian? In fact, is there a Linux flavour you couldn't say this about?
Specifically, Arch's software packages are much more up-to-date than Debian's. Debian has a much stronger focus on stability.
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I do debian stable for stability + security but I use a series of debootstrap chroots in testing or even sid specifically for gaming and the like. I find it the best of both worlds.
ROLLING DISTRO, BAYBEE :party-parrot:
You could, I guess the emphasis would go on the lightweight part. The Arch ISO is very minimalist so you have much more control over what packages are on your install.
You could argue that Debian is more lightweight since it doesn't roll development libraries and binaries into the same package. It's really a question of lightweight in what sense? Disk utilization? IO? RAM? Computation?
People usually mean lightweight as in small package count. I dunno how many packages Debian installs by default, especially if you choose the minimal distro, but the arch install I used at school had like 700 packages and I did most of my schoolwork on it. It's meaningful in the sense that the less packages you have installed, the less likely the system will break after an update and the less upkeep you need. Resource wise, Arch is as lightweight as whatever DE you're rocking. Obviously a WM setup with no window compositing is going to be super light on resources but you can have one of those on Debian no problem.
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It's a highly customizable rolling release distro, but mostly the Arch User Repository!
I think there have been significant improvements on the installation too, pacstrap already does a bunch of heavy lifting for you AND their own install script now works sometimes!
Saying you use Arch
I use Arch btw.
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The reason I keep using it is that pretty much everything I want to use is packaged to work with the minimal amount of system wide disruption. Since nothing is installed by default, everything only does the bare minimum to work, which means I can add functionality as needed but don't end up with a complexity nightmare because of assumptions made about what should be "batteries included".
In addition to the other stuff mentioned, it's a rolling release which means you don't have to worry about upgrades/reinstalls of the OS as much. You also get access to the AUR which is probably the most complete repository of software on Linux.