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.
isn't it a one-shot script now? I haven't installed it in a long time cause I got sick of configuring everything by hand every time I wanted to set up a computer. nixos has been a dream come true. the support for the fully manual install is important sometimes -- like sometimes I'm doing something weird with my filesystems from a btrfs or zfs partition with subvolumes getting carefully mounted -- and the automatic installers invariably have no clue what I'm trying to do. and if you want a sense of what all the moving parts are that make up your system, configuring them all by hand is a decent way to work that out. but dam it is not fun to do that over and over again. it's so tedious.
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oh yeah, there's always a way to work around it, but with Ubuntu et al, you're perpetually working around the system. it was genuinely pleasant to switch to Arch and just have the flexibility to do what I liked without having to figure out what odd customizations got piled on top in nonstandard ways. for most people this doesn't matter but as someone who hasn't used anything but a linux system in decades, Arch was a breath of fresh air.
if you have a specific way you want your systems set up, Nix is nice. the configuration language will take some time to get used to though. it's just plain weird and there's no shortcut for it.
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It comes down to audience. Arch is niche and caters to a specific crowd, as does Ubuntu, Debian, etc. The problem in Linux spaces is some internet tough guys actually think lesser of you for not being in the target audience of Arch, despite the fact everyone should have their computing needs catered to.