I installed arch myself too. But i still don’t see what benefits it brings over the simple GUI installers from Debian or Fedora. Just click a few buttons and I’m done. What was the point of all the complexity of arch installer anyway? I develop open source linux programs too, the arch installer stuff has very little relation to the actual development of linux projects. I don’t see much reason for it, it’s complexity for the sake of it. Just use a GUI installer and be done with it.

That’s actually not as crazy though. Linus himself said people don’t install operating systems, it’s not what most people want to do in their free time.

We have our own version in linux too. Arch/Gentoo/NixOS, neovim/hyprland/kitty unixporn evangelists who clearly have a very different idea of what’s worth spending time on, compared to the average user. Like gosh, ubuntu, konsole and vscode work perfectly fine too!

We’ve got local llm models, we’ve got local text to speech, isn’t it a matter of time until someone puts in the work to build one? It shouldn’t be surprising. I’m surprised there weren’t more of them.

If you follow programming communities, the most popular thing beginners say they want to build these days is “local AI chat assistant” or some variant of the concept.