And yet, there are several distributions based on Arch designed to ease Arch installation and usage. Installing EndeavourOS is hardly any more work than installing Mint. If you’re using KDE, and install bauh, you can use Arch and barely be aware that it’s supposed to be a snooty, technical distribution.
The distro leaders can do whatever they want. I think it’s a bad decision by Arch - I call bullshit on the “we can’t detect” statement, because you can absolutely test for whether X is installed in a PKGBUILD - and as a community contributor, I object to it. It’s intentionally exclusionary and at a time when many people still have issues with Wayland being incomplete and outright broken for some cases.
I mean, the fix is installing one extra package, and since Arch users are expected to read the news, I wouldn’t call it exclusionary. It’s not like you can’t still use X.
And yet, there are several distributions based on Arch designed to ease Arch installation and usage. Installing EndeavourOS is hardly any more work than installing Mint. If you’re using KDE, and install
bauh, you can use Arch and barely be aware that it’s supposed to be a snooty, technical distribution.The distro leaders can do whatever they want. I think it’s a bad decision by Arch - I call bullshit on the “we can’t detect” statement, because you can absolutely test for whether X is installed in a PKGBUILD - and as a community contributor, I object to it. It’s intentionally exclusionary and at a time when many people still have issues with Wayland being incomplete and outright broken for some cases.
If you run Arch you’ve got read the news, if you run dubious Arch derivatives, well, good luck to you
I mean, the fix is installing one extra package, and since Arch users are expected to read the news, I wouldn’t call it exclusionary. It’s not like you can’t still use X.