Arch was my first distro and I did it manually, no archinstall. You can git clone someone else’s dotfiles if you wanted, so this distro is really for people who are too lazy to do that, and also want AI shoehorned into their OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

They want to overthrow democracy and turn it into some authoritarian techno-capitalist hellscape.

Eich, Yarvin, and peter thiel have ties to it, along with many others.

Even worse, he has ties to the Dark Enlightenment.

Same. Capitalism will kill us all if we don’t do something, that’s why I’m a social distributist.

The biggest issue for me is its ties to the Dark Enlightenment movement, which is much more scary than any -phobia or -ism.

Snaps ruined Ubuntu.

Yes. Mostly people who are too lazy to install Arch and also want a preset hyprland config provided by the distro (instead of just taking one from github)

Omarchy has ties to Dark Enlightenment stuff so hard pass.

The thing is USB sticks are much more unstable than an nvme or something, so you’re more likely to lose your data. They can also be stolen way easier than an nvme or hard drive, but if you encrypt it w/ a strong password that shouldn’t be an issue.

Well maintaining a KISS repo of 100+ packages is something I once did to myself, so it is possible.

The only justifications for using flatpak are having a musl system or if the software has way too many dependencies. Use your package manager when possible, otherwise use an appimage, or find a way to get the .deb or .rpm working on your distro.