Arch Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Arch Linux Average rating 9.2 from 180 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Arch Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- current2011.08.192010.052009.082009.022008.062007.080.80.70.60.50.40.30.20.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: current Rating: 9 Date: 2023-09-28 Votes: 2 I've been using Arch on my main laptops for over three years. Its been a better experience than I had expected. Arch is fast, easy to use, if not install and has the AUR with its vast repository of software, that's hard to match. I've had to learn a lot about the command line, using Arch. Yes I've had to trouble shoot issues and not all of them, occasional black screen upon first starting the OS, have gone away, in spite of a lot of time spent on forums. I do think Arch could do with an automated installer, for those who don't want to be running through things from the command line and I think people need to acknowledge there is maintenance and a few bugs attendant to Arch. That said, these things are alright as there is a lot of upside too, particularly in terms of gaining independence and being able to set up your Arch OS, as you like as opposed to having a lot of unnecessary software installed by default and having to endure someone else's vision of what your OS should be. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-24 Votes: 6 Arch is a simple distro that focuses on simplicity and freedom of choice by its users. Its great if you want to completely customize your linux experience. It has great community which maintains the Arch Wiki that i think is the best knowledge base there is for this moment. Also it has a amazing package system called AUR, which has a very large collection of software that you can install with ease, almost in 1 command and not having to sit on it for a long time as it would be with another distros. However, lets talk about bad things arch has, which is not much. 1. It is very beginner un-friendly, i'd say beginner offensive. You'd need to have rather big linux knowledge to use it, let alone install it 2. It forces you to customize everything. Sometimes it would be much easier to let the OS take care of everything I don't think that any of those 2 things are that bad. If you are a beginner, you will learn one way or another. And the second one is barely a problem, since if you'd want to just use the OS, there is a lot of software like ArchInstall that automates a lot for you. Hell, you can install an Arch-based distro like Manjaro that has all the good things that Arch has, but are beginner-friendly Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-13 Votes: 8 Arch is a very beautiful distro where everything is for you and by you. You build up everything as per your need . The package management with help of AUR is vast and biggest. It is stable also if you know how to keep it. It is not bloated as you install only what you need. A good configuration will make it the best distro and best OS. I am using this OS for more than 2 years though in between switched to few different Arch based and Non Arch based but again came back to Arch as I feel I have the ultimate freedom only in Arch . Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 180 reader reviews of Arch Linux...