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Why go through the trouble to use Arch?
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Arch is honestly pretty simple compared to what it was like to install Linux in the 90s...
That said, I mostly run Debian, and have a little smattering of arch. Much like running testing & unstable Debian on two of my machines, I have it there to check out new things and for testing purposes. Same goes for arch, I'm using it to test out new things.