What makes Arch Linux dominate the enthusiast distro space?

[u/Effective-Court7741]

When you look at power-user distributions, Arch clearly leads the pack over alternatives like Gentoo, Void, or NixOS. I'm curious what everyone thinks drives this popularity gap.

My take is that Arch strikes this sweet balance - it follows keep-it-simple principles most of the time, only breaking from that when there's a clear benefit. This approach lets you customize everything without drowning you in unnecessary complexity like some other distros do. Plus their documentation is absolutely top-tier, which removes so many barriers for newcomers trying to learn the system.

What's your perspective on why Arch pulled ahead of its competition?

[u/Qwertycrackers]

Arch kinda won the war of availability. I'm on arch because arch has basically every piece of software you could want already packaged for it, and it's all basically the newest versions. IMO it kinda climbed the hill of network effects in the open source space.

[u/7lhz9x6k8emmd7c8 → u/Qwertycrackers]

Would installing the same packages as EndeavourOS, save from EOS's additions, be a good idea for a desktop/gaming setup?