The true arch experience.

That’s cool. How did you go about finding that? Any communities you can recommend?

I think it mostly refers to a fresh install, which is fairly slim I guess (though not THAT slim either). The package (non-)granularity is still just absurd sometimes.

Honestly, I’ve been using Arch for about 10 years now, and I’ve never met an actual Arch elitist in real life (I guess we don’t get out of the basement that much). The only people I’ve met who would show that attitude were usually either Ubuntu/Mint fanboys or GNU hardliners. Live and let live?

I feel like Windows 7 fills the sweet spot between the seemless UI of the 2000/XP era and newer versions. Windows 10/11 could top that list if Microsoft had bothered to create a proper UI instead of just slapping some material design on a handful of apps, while everything else is still basically 2000/XP. Then again, GTK2/3/4 can be almost as bad.

Despite the fact that Lemmy is a fairly new piece of software, which makes these issues more likely, I am really grateful for it being open source, and I really appreciate this level of transparency.