Alaknár

You mean the Kung Führer?

It means they are ashamed of the distro they run.

See? You are being elitist. Your first thought is that they hope to elevate themselves somehow by saying they use Arch.

When they might just not be bothered (or don’t know) to say “Arch-based”. Because ultimately, there’s no difference. When you’re troubleshooting packages, or whatever, there’s no functional difference between saying “It’s Arch” and “It’s WhateverTheFuck OS (Arch-based)”. The latter just takes more time to type out.

If you want to go around telling people you use arch

See this? You think people go around telling other what distro they’re using. You are elitist. It’s just an OS, bro.

I think you just need to stop being elitist about it.

Who cares? Honestly - who cares how someone installed their OS? We should be doing everything to get people to switch to Linux (of any flavour), but instead dudes like you go “oh, you have XYZ OS? Well, that’s not really Arch, is it?” What even is the point?

love garuda

An equivalent of Rani should legally mandated to be on all Arch-based distros.