Week 13 - Distros

 Distros

Arch

    Arch, one of the few distros also well-known to outsiders.  This is the only distro I myself have experience with as well, seeing as I decided to be real cocky and thought I was ready for the challenge. Honestly, what I did just reaffirms the main stereotype about Arch users. It is kind of notorious for being a 'hard' distro, but in reality it is a bragging distro. From my experience, and apparently that of many others, Arch users are obnoxiously loud about the fact that they use Arch - they shove it into every single conversation whenever it even lightly grazes on IT/distros/Linux etc. As such, they actually have a bit of a bad reputation. As for the distro itself, it's.. barely a distro, as far as comparing to others goes. It is barren, and that is its advantage - it is ready from the ground up to use set up! Every Arch installation is pretty unique in that it is designed by the person who installed it. Sure, other distros can be customized in such a way as well, but that would require replacing what is already there, and that is a lot more tedious than just building something from the ground-up. There's a reason why people often fully format their systems or completely start projects from scratch if they're not happy with it - it is a lot more smooth and zen to go from the beginning to the end in an even manner than it is to start fixing problems. That applies to everything, and Arch is the representation of 'not wanting to fix what is already there'. Arch is developed fully by unpaid volunteers, further reinforcing the mentality of picking something up and getting to work on it. If you install Arch, maybe one day you could also support its development? So other heavy enthusiasts get to experience the joy of setting something up from near-scratch~!

Live Raizo

    Since I am a completely newbie when it comes to Linux and do not know a whole lot about certain distros in-depth, I decided to just search for some weird or more niche distros, and found this! It's a debian-based distro that is specifically made for network admins, coming with literally everything that could be needed to get started with it out of the box - both for messing around on a virtual network or on your network hardware. Speaking of virtual, the distro is built up with the tools to emulate both various networks and virtual machines to test around on - this is probably the main selling point of the distro and the reason to install it. It provides a very easy way to just get set up and start working on practicing network management. It also helps newbies such as myself by highlighting the most important parts of various commands, particularly ones related to network diagnostics. It was originally designed to assist in various networking and Linux admin courses in France, but is now available for everyone online :).

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