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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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Agreed. Spend the the time learning something meaningful like programming not how to configure certain bits of software to save a couple of MB.
What does that have to do with anything?
While off-topic, I'm of the opinion that Arch only exists to support elitists which relates to the comment.
But for some reason it gets treated like an ideal for every Linux user to reach. It's supposedly like to going to the Olympics as an elite athlete. An Arch system needs more work to maintain, but there isn't really much to gain
Every point you made is either patently false (isn't up to date, won't even work with gnome) or doesn't make any sense (installs the bare minimum, so stuff won't always work).
The only part we agree on is that arch isn't for everyone.
I think he meant the application GNOME Software. Only valid point, I would like to be able to install or at least update my arch packages through GNOME Software like I do with flatpaks. Doesn't have anything to do with the way Arch works tho, it's just that no one has made a plugin yet that allows this.
Ah, I didn't realize there was actually a piece of gnome software literally called "gnome software" lol. Not confusing at all.