• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    It means they are ashamed of the distro they run.

    See? You are being elitist. Your first thought is that they hope to elevate themselves somehow by saying they use Arch.

    When they might just not be bothered (or don’t know) to say “Arch-based”. Because ultimately, there’s no difference. When you’re troubleshooting packages, or whatever, there’s no functional difference between saying “It’s Arch” and “It’s WhateverTheFuck OS (Arch-based)”. The latter just takes more time to type out.

    If you want to go around telling people you use arch

    See this? You think people go around telling other what distro they’re using. You are elitist. It’s just an OS, bro.