Show HN: An Aesthetically Pleasing Arch Linux Distro

https://archcraft-os.github.io/

by aswinmohanme • 6 years ago

76 20 6 years ago

archcraft-os.github.io

agustif2• 6 years ago

Hey this looks great!

Can I use it alongside Big Sur on my MBP? dual-boot is an option?

RealStickman_3• 6 years ago

Had a quick look at the BIOS install blog post. It's recommending grub as a bootloader, so dual booting should work as long as you don't mess up in partitioning and accidentally delete or overwrite your other OS.

agustif2• 6 years ago

Well I'm on macOs Big Sur beta (just updated to the latest named 11 release).

Was planning on backing up and doing a clean install somehow in the future anyway, and have been thinking about using linux for a while for a less-bloated coding envirorment

So thanks for the tip, will check that out.

b1476• 6 years ago

The images don’t appear to scale correctly on mobile.

RealStickman_3• 6 years ago

Seems fine for me.

RealStickman_3• 6 years ago

Although I'm not really looking to replace any current install, I'll definitely check this out in a vm. See how many and what programs it has preinstalled and have a look through the themes. Maybe throw it on a machine next time I do a reinstall if it is as nice as it looks.

vlmutolo• 6 years ago

Alright, somebody tell me why this isn't as awesome as it looks and why I shouldn't immediately wipe my current install and use this instead.

RunningDroid• 6 years ago

The core of any argument against Arch is that it's a bleeding-edge Distro, which means more breakage.

nmstoker• 6 years ago

That's a fair concern but in my experience you have lots of the benefits of being up near the edge with very little blood.

It helps to read the Arch news link but normally I've missed it the rare time I ought to have checked it and you can still just figure things out and move on quickly.

For years now I've had almost nothing break except some intermittent minor annoyance with trivial bits of KDE. I'll live!

haecceity• 6 years ago

Whenever I use an Arch laptop that I haven't touched in a while and need to do an update on it, there will be update conflicts that need to be resolved manually. I'm pretty sure this happened every time. There are tons of posts on the forum about update conflicts.

drinkcocacola• 6 years ago

The attention to detail is so high that the screenshots in the website are not even proportionally scaled. Just no.

adamhearn• 6 years ago

Try viewing it from mobile. It only gets worse.

vaughnegut• 6 years ago

This looks great, I was looking to try something new to replace Ubuntu on my laptop and I missed the AUR. So this'll be great to try out!

enricozb• 6 years ago

minimalist != that login screen

sloshnmosh• 6 years ago

This reminds me of another eye-popping distro but for pentesting (also Arch based)

Black Arch

mraza0072• 6 years ago

I must say this looks very clean and minimal but website doesn’t scale well on mobile

If its opensource i can definitely help you with the website

mraza0072• 6 years ago

Sorry i mean to say the image

Koshkin• 6 years ago

Offtopic: somehow I can't get off Slackware, please help me. (And no, I don't want to go down that rabbit arch-hole.)

karmakaze• 6 years ago

I can't stand landing pages that fly the 'opensource' flag then don't have any links to the source. The 'Donate' button was easy to find though.

Also couldn't find any technical details on how this differs from other Arch distros and of course being new(er?) there's no Distrowatch entry.

j_walter• 6 years ago

I tried Deepin on my 4K laptop a few months ago to try it out and see how "beautiful" it was. Unfortunately I'm a laptop hoarder and when I go to reach for a laptop to use I tend to pull one that is running Kubuntu instead. I couldn't get used to the centered menu bar and a lack of being able to make changes was frustrating. I don't see this as much different than that...but I may give it a whirl when I get a few minutes to format that 4K laptop.

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