I’m a little bit underwhelmed, I thought that based off the fact so many people seem to make using this distro their personality I expected… well, more I guess?

Once the basic stuff is set-up, like wifi, a few basic packages, a desktop environment/window manager, and a bit of desktop environment and terminal customisation, then that’s it. Nothing special, just a Linux distribution with less default programs and occasionally having to look up how to install a hardware driver or something if you need to use bluetooth for the first time or something like that.

Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

What exactly is it that people obsess over? The desktop environment and terminal customisation? Setting up NetworkManager with nmcli? Using Vim to edit a .conf file?

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    3 months ago

    Replaces the Archwiki with basically 0 docs

    Arch wiki is still relevant, I still use it as a reference on my NixOS box.

    a large chunk of your Linux knowledge no longer applies

    Your pacman and pacur (or whatever the name of the air helper soup de jour is this week) will no longer apply. Most of my linux knowledge was still applicable. You have all the same programs that run in the same way as they do on arch.

    you can’t compile from source

    Sure you can. Want to compile everything from source? Just turn off using the cache. NixOS is a source based distro.

    everything is different

    Also no. I use the same programs I can get on most other distros.

    the nix language kinda sucks until you “get” it, etc.

    If you have ever used another functional language its fine.