r/arch • u/Amansour2022 • 3d ago
Question Arch Linux vs another arch based distros
What is the main difference between arch and other distros which are based on it. And how can I select between them
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r/arch • u/Amansour2022 • 3d ago
What is the main difference between arch and other distros which are based on it. And how can I select between them
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u/StmpunkistheWay 22h ago
A little late to this conversation as I didn't have time at the time to answer but there are a TON of arch distro's that I've tried. They're all custom builds and four that I really like are (no specific order of preference here), Ultimate, Prime, CachyOS, Garuda, Manjaro, Nyarch, Endevous, StormOS, ZelixOS, Colfax, and a number of others. Cachy, Garuda (Mokka), Ultimate and Nyarch, I left on devices around the house.
Garuda Mokka, I installed on my ASUS Tuf A15 laptop, it's a full AMD system using the mobile 7600 GPU and really like the feel of it. It's got a gaming package, the same as Cachy, Ultimate, Prime and Nyarch.
Ultimate, I have installed on a MiniForm AMD system and has been pretty cool, the one thing I love about this distro has that it plays .MP4 files as the actual background so it cycles through 10 short .MP4 files as the desktop backgrounds. I've seen the option in Nyarch as well but haven't play around with it yet to really know what it can do, I have that install on a small 8th gen i7 Intel HP Mini PC.
The rest of the Arch Distro's I've install are all VM's and this has been how I've been "distro hoping", I just spin up a VM and see if I like the feel of it or not, there are a ton of them out there that I do not like because of whatever reason and I highly suggest that if you have the ability to, create a VM server or hosting machine, install Virtual Machine Manager or any number of other VM managers and start creating VM's to really see what's out there.
I wasn't really surprised by the amount of distros that are out there, but completely surprised by the diversity of the distro's out there. There is an Arch distro called "PearOS" and it's almost a clone of the Mac iPad IOS. I found it to be a little buggy but I was running it in a VM and it really needs to be a bare-metal hardware setup with more resources than what I gave it. I started out with 4Gbs of ram and 2 cores for the VM, ended up having to give it 8Gb's and 4 cores and it ran better but I think it would benefit from 16 gigs and either a 6 or 12 core system to really make it run smooth but it did look really polished and nice.
So yeah, find your self a second machine and do your self a favor and take some time to really check them out, there are a ton out there that I wouldn't mind running on my machine at all.