Arch Linux. The perfect distro?
A few months ago I decided to daily drive Linux on my PC instead of just using it on my phone, laptop and server. I installed Arch Linux on my PC and have so far (apart from discord fucking up my zram compression on shutdown) not encountered any issues. It has been noticably smoother than windows, I have gotten more FPS in native linux games and pretty much the same in games ran through wine or proton. I have probably encountered less issues on Arch than I have Windows.
So, you might be asking why I chose Arch over other distros such as Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora or anything else. There is no one answer to this question but a big reason is how customisable it is. I can customise everything down from what manages my audio and the bootloader, to what display manager and desktop environment I want to use. I also love how you get the absolute latest software, before most other distros do, due to the bleeding edge nature of Arch Linux.
Instead of going for a popular and well tested desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon or XFCE, I chose to use Hyprland. Hyprland is acctually quite popular and is a very customisable tiling window manager for wayland. Instead of being like the rest of the degenerated Arch Linux users which some of my good friends and specifically second couisin are, I chose to use a pre-configured rice (desktop environment customisation) called HyDE. I went with a pre-configured one due to Hyprland being made for you to practically make your own DE/WM from it.
HyDE is a really cool Hyprland setup as it does everything for you and comes with everything you need, and has SO MANY AMAZING KEYBINDS. TO name some, Super+A opens the wofi menu (wofi is an application switcher built on rofi, made for wayland), Super+P opens a screenshot selector thing, Super+Shift+P opens a colour picker, Super+(Number) changes your workspace, and there are many more, such as Super+Shift+A opens the customisation menu for the Wofi menu, or SUper+Shift+T opens the theme switcher. The theme switcher comes with a whole new set of wallpapers, waybar config and even a custom GTK2/3 config.
Obviously I did more customisations like adding ChaoticAUR, making my own HyDE theme, changing my Display Manager from SDDM to GDM because I like the appearance and much more. I HIGHLY reccomend installing Arch Linux on a spare laptop or a VM to get used to installing it (you will never be shamed by me for using an installation script) and then configuring it. I would also encorage people to switch to Arch Linux if they value full transparency in whats on your system, customisability, the latest software and full controll. If you have any questions about Arch, DM me on discord or email me!