I am unfamiliar with your school system I think. Final year of college / university? Do you have a specialization in your major (graphics, machine learning, embedded, networks / security - something like this?)

I’d go with something from the specialization if you have one. If not, just something that interests you.

This seems interesting, and I might try it.

But… I’m kind of sick of web applicatioms. Why does everything need to be a web application or a “not” web app using electron. (In this case I see the use case and reason, but in general)

While I mostly agree, I’d like to point out that GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) exists, and at its core it is basically just pathfinding like a* or something similar. And we still call that AI, because it “intelligently” finds a path quickly.

So my main point is that I agree that it isn’t magic or sapient or anything, but in a sense it is definitely intelligent.

I agree Arch isn’t magical. And I’m more than aware of the issues with the AUR, however i disagree that everything on there can be found by other means. There are several programs (such as optimus-manager for nvidia and integrated video card laptops) which are pretty much only found on the AUR (Not counting Github). Again this is about ease-of-use (Since you could build my example from github as well).

Obviously you can customize anything anywhere, what sets Arch apart is pacman and aur. And again in the case of Manjaro and EndeavourOS these and the wiki are the main “selling points”.

Arch is just the easiest one to start from a very minimal system and build something up that’s totally yours

Minimal ubuntu and fedora exists as well. And if you were to customise them you’d end up with something that you like as well. But i see what you are saying and i agree.

To answer your question: AUR. Aur is something that I love about Arch.

Also please stop gatekeeping. Installing Arch by hand instead of using something like EndevaourOS doesn’t mean anything. I used EndevaourOS after using arch simply because it was way faster and easier to configure. It still has all the functionality of arch (since essentially it is arch).

If you don’t want to spend the time to completely customize your system just don’t use an Arch based system

Thats the thing. You can still customize everything and anything. I mean what’s stopping you from using a tty and changing things? Also even the installer helps you customize a lot of things…

I agree completely.

As a sidenote: If somebody wants something easy-to-use that is arch-based I’d suggest EndevaourOS.