I think you just need to stop being elitist about it.
Who cares? Honestly - who cares how someone installed their OS? We should be doing everything to get people to switch to Linux (of any flavour), but instead dudes like you go “oh, you have XYZ OS? Well, that’s not really Arch, is it?” What even is the point?
Its not being elitist. I dont consider arch to be hard to install or maintain or anything. Its just cringe that people want to tell people that they use arch when they dont use arch. It means they are ashamed of the distro they run.
If you want to go around telling people you use arch btw while on mint themed like arch thats fine but its not elitist to find that behavior cringe.
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.
I think you just need to stop being elitist about it.
Who cares? Honestly - who cares how someone installed their OS? We should be doing everything to get people to switch to Linux (of any flavour), but instead dudes like you go “oh, you have XYZ OS? Well, that’s not really Arch, is it?” What even is the point?
Its not being elitist. I dont consider arch to be hard to install or maintain or anything. Its just cringe that people want to tell people that they use arch when they dont use arch. It means they are ashamed of the distro they run.
If you want to go around telling people you use arch btw while on mint themed like arch thats fine but its not elitist to find that behavior cringe.
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.
See this? You think people go around telling other what distro they’re using. You are elitist. It’s just an OS, bro.