May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?


I initially started using it because I needed the newest drivers and back ports on Mint was taking to long, since then I’ve stuck with rolling release so I don’t have to deal with driver hell. I stick with Arch over say Debian Tumbleweed at this point mostly from momentum.