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• Photos and videos processing in 2026 : more space in the cloud
  1 project | dev.to | 9 Jun 2026

  Yes, Gentoo Setup is efficient, still I find it's a geek way. Gentoo is great for those who love Gentoo. Hence this time I will do the same with Arch Linux to simplify the setup. Also I will convert images to JPEG this time thanks to the fantastic progress done by JPEG XL Team. For videos I will stick to the MP4 with HEVC.

• My fully offline AI-assisted Linux development machine
  30 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2026

  I moved from Fedora and KDE to a mostly vanilla Arch Linux setup. I moved from a traditional desktop environment to niri, a scrolling Wayland compositor. And of course, like every developer out there, my workflow now has AI in it. But this time, I wanted something a bit different: AI-assisted development that can run fully offline on my own machine.

• Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2026

  Have you looked at https://archlinux.org/ ?

  Scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see:

  > The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds, owner of the mark on a world-wide basis.

• Why I traded my custom "Opinionated Linux" for Omarchy
  13 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2026

  Omarchy is an opinionated Arch distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Rails, Basecamp and Hey. Under the hood it's Arch Linux + Hyprland, but it ships with everything pre-configured: lock screen, menu bar, bluetooth, themes, keybindings. No installing packages one by one.

• [PT-BR] Por que troquei meu "Opinionated Linux" autoral (DIY) pelo Omarchy
  13 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2026
• Niyə hələ də Linux işlətmirik, ya da işlədə bilmirik?
  4 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2026
• Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2026

  > Having very frequent updates to bleeding edge software versions, often requiring manual intervention is not "stable". An arch upgrade may, without warning, replace your config files and update software to versions incompatible with the previous.

  12 in the last year if you used all the software (I don’t many people are running dovecot and zabbix), so probably actually like 3 for most users: https://archlinux.org/

  That’s not too dissimilar from what you’d get running stable releases of Ubuntu or Windows. And of course plenty of windows software will auto upgrade itself in potentially undesired ways, windows users just don’t blame the OS for that

• Is Omarchy Any Good...?
  2 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2026

  Being based on Arch Linux means you have thousands upon thousands of software applications at your fingertips. I've been able to install development environments, docker containers, and retro games without any problems.

• Archlinux.org Is Down
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2026
• 780k Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2025

  > Who decides what a "bad" landing page is?

  Depends on the intended target, It doesn't have to look like Apple's website, just show relevant infos:

  Look at Porteus, which I use for commercial Kiosks apps in real life, clearly ended for the non technical user:

  https://www.porteus.org/

  while the latter already talks about packages, zero-day, and what not, clearly not intended for someone who knows nothing about Linux and just want to run a Live CD to test it out:

  https://archlinux.org/

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