I have been using Arch Linux since 2005. It is a great distro and there are a few devs that are still keeping it the Arch Way. For this I am grateful. However, the community has taken a change for the worse. When I first started using Arch if you asked a noob question you were given a man page or a google query. If you wanted to succeed with arch, you had to read up. I think this turned away a good amount of users, but that was the type of distro Arch was. Now the community is soft, we are willing to put up with people that have no clue what they are doing and that can’t survive on their own!
ataraxia summed it up very well:
“A part of me really misses those old days. We’re far too welcoming of people who don’t substantially get what The Arch Way is even about, or who just don’t agree with it. Arch hasn’t been materially harmed by the changes, but I think we’re overly patient in these forums nowadays with people that are just too inexperienced to succeed anyway, and even more so with BIGNUM practically-identical threads that could have been avoided by simply reading the last day’s posts (or even the front page news) before posting a new thread.”
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