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Why go through the trouble to use Arch?
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What trouble?
archinstallmakes it dead simple to get on your computer, then at that point it's not much different from any other distro?I'd sooner ask why people choose shit like Ubuntu where you're stuck dealing with snaps out-of-date packages, and bloat.
I used Debian and Ubuntu for like 20 years and just got sick of packages being forever out of date, and the Archwiki always having exactly what I needed.