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Archcraft
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Reader supplied reviews for Archcraft
Average rating
8.5 from 55 review(s)
Version: 2024.04.06
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-04-17
Votes: 18
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Disclaimer that I have only tried Archcraft with OpenBox in a virtual machine so far, but I try dozens of distros this way. Archcraft was harder than the majority to get working reliably, but it is now working.
It certainly looks good if you like flat design and carefully curated pastel-like colour schemes. The Ten built in styles apply flawlessly and look good, though any included Tint2 panel may appear at the top or bottom, they vary. It loads up in ~500Mb RAM and comes with a decent selection of software.
But a quick look over the website is not so encouraging. This is a one-person project - nothing unique or wrong there except that there are some 'Premium' versions available that cost from $5.99 up to $55.55, and the support for these consists of "Email me and i'll help you ASAP. " There are no official forums.
Mixed bag - fun to play with but not so good to recommend for work.
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Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-04-04
Votes: 4
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I'm rather at odds over Archcraft. I have two older laptops I wanted to put a lightweight version of Arch on. This distro looked ideal. I previewed it on my main, high end system, with a 4GB of GPU and it ran smoothly, is easy on the eyes and its Arch which I like because I do most of my work from the command line.
I was really enthusiastic to try it on my low end systems, both of which exceeded the minimum requirement but in both cases, it only loaded to a black screen from a USB.I tried re-installing the OS on the USB in case it was buggy, I tried a different USB with a freshly downloaded ISO and then I tried another Arch distro to ensure I wasn't losing my mind. The latter worked fine on both laptops, loading from a USB with ease.
I then tried to find a fix by searching on line. This issue has been reported previously but I could not find a solution mentioned anywhere.
So in summary I can install Archcraft on a high end system I don't need a light version of Arch for, which in fact is already running Arch with all the bells and whistles but I can't install it on older hardware, its apparently designed to accommodate?
I'm not writing Archcraft off but as it stands right now, I'm better off installing pure Arch from the command line and electing to install Opebox, LXDE, XFCE window manager or similar on my ageing laptops.
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Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-02
Votes: 21
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I've tried all the distrowatch list there on the right. As an apple desktop user it is very difficult for me to accept any of these desktops as provided by the distros. The result is that I spend endless hours tweaking the graphical environments to make them "make sense". In this distribution all I had to do was to replace the upper right logo button from dmenu to full screen launcher (nwg-drawer). For me, this is a big success! The design that has been done is more than correct and beautiful. The fact that a media player is provided in the bar makes you immediately press play. The background music while you work makes you have a pleasant time.
It's a distribution that smells Unix-Linux everywhere. It's fast, easy, hassle-free and, above all, well-designed. I also like the fact that it installs a classic floating window manager and a tilling window manager and they are sharing the same application set and theme. So you have the opportunity to work development in tilling wm and multimedia in floating wm with ease and without effort. On the other hand, the floating window manager has many tilling features and the shortcuts are almost the same. Other features I like are the in-build screen-shooter and color-picker without the need for further installation and bloating the system. An amazing job has been done there. I suggest you try it.
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Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-10-31
Votes: 3
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Archcraft, especially with the premium spins, is one of the best options for anyone curious about using window managers/compositors like Hyperland, Sway, Newm-Atha, Bspwm, River, Wayfire, Qtile, blackbox, etc; they come fully configured and bug free. Many have custom themes and functionality to adjust themes to match wallpapers. Additionally, there is a vibrant discord community for answering questions. I've been running the Newm-Atha spin on my laptop and Sway on my desktop for 6 months without any issues.
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Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-07
Votes: 8
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really, really good distro, i am still new to linux, but this works for me, i am using the openbox edition and i love it, i learnt how to do a few things via youtube, archcraft website, for pacman issues, and from looking at adityas config files once i had learnt form distrotube on youtube what ones to use and so on, everything is working well, it is fast in use, i installed my own media player, vlc by choice rather than the one that ships with archcraft, and i also after a small time purchased the premium openbox config by aditya, it all works so well, i love it, really, much more interesting than windows though i will, i think always keep my windows machine as well... best of both worlds, i tried lots of distros but this one suits me the best and is the most enjoyable of all of them, top marks to aditya the dev and i hope he gets all the support he needs to keep this very special distro, quality distro going being as by his own admission at the moment he is sort of a one man band, without doubt archcraft is best in class in my opinion,
sw,
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Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-09
Votes: 17
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In my opinion, this is one of the best linux distributions for everyday use (internet, multimedia, etc.). My favorite graphical environment of this distro is XFCE. The system is stable and very fast. It is also very easy to configure. My wifi connection is stable, no so far i have problems with the sound or graphics. This system can work for me without any problems for 5 hours without a break and nothing breaks down. I personally recommend this system even to less advanced linux users.In my opinion, this is a distribution worthy of interest.
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Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-31
Votes: 6
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This is my favorite linux distro. In my opinion, it is the best system for browsing the internet and multimedia. The only problem I have is intermittent sound via bluetooth when connecting a smartphone, but the rest works great. It is a Rolling Realase system, so once installed it updates without the need to reinstall when a new version of the system is released. The LXDE version of the system is very light, consumes little RAM and is very stable despite frequent updates. After a month of use I had no problem with it. Timeshift works in this system without any problems if it gets a full snapshot of the system. The system itself takes up very little disk space and I generally recommend it for the typical user be it Desktop or Laptop.
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Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-21
Votes: 6
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An outstanding Openbox experience.
Archcraft really does many things right when we seek for a minimal but yet very visually and coherent polished experience.
Switching skins on the fly in Openbox and you can see how the theming is handled in a superior way compared to KDE.
The nuances of the theming shine and you have control over element like the shadows to make them more suddle.
Some themes maximize a lot screen space availability with compact elements. Its appreciable for power users who bring many elements at once or work on small screens (retro screens, small laptop users can appreciate).
Having little bloat installed out of the box offer an increased stability. (updates integrates smoothly and can be delayed further).
The distro pushes you to get familiar with the usual terminal commands, once learned you enjoy the speed and enhanced control over your system. Then the provided other WM allow for a quick transition into a keyboard centric navigation workflow.
This way of using the system doesn't fit very well my graphic designer use case but it teaches me what become more advantageous that way.
Archcraft is used as a learning and transitioning OS for those curious to discover the beauty and responsiveness of fast WM.
I installed it alongside xerolinux (KDE) and it made me want to learn arch more. Power user who reinstall their Arch based distro periodically and want to be set quickly can love it.
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Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-18
Votes: 4
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Archcraft does everything right. Not only is it fancy and pretty, it leaves you with grub fancy and pretty, and boots the operating system you chose last time. Those kinds of details make an operating system win points. It comes with yay pre-installed but no pamac or octopi: it doesn't matter, with yay -S pamac-aur installs in a minute. I have installed Archcraft Xfce and everything is going smoothly: for me it is one of the least bloated arch distros.
Some complain that it has no support. It usually happens with one-person projects. But I think if you are a regular arch user you don't need any support, you already have the arch wiki.
Great job!
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Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-04
Votes: 3
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An outstanding Openbox experience.
Archcraft really does many things right when we seek for a minimal but yet very visually and coherent polished experience.
Switching skins on the fly in Openbox and you can see how the theming is handled in a superior way compared to KDE.
The nuances of the theming shine and you have control over element like the shadows to make them more suddle.
Some themes maximize a lot screen space availability with compact elements. Its appreciable for power users who bring many elements at once or work on small screens (retro screens, small laptop users can appreciate).
Having little bloat installed out of the box offer an increased stability. (updates integrates smoothly and can be delayed further).
The distro pushes you to get familiar with the usual terminal commands, once learned you enjoy the speed and enhanced control over your system. Then the provided other WM allow for a quick transition into a keyboard centric navigation workflow.
This way of using the system doesn't fit very well my graphic designer use case but it teaches me what become more advantageous that way.
Archcraft is used as a learning and transitioning OS for those curious to discover the beauty and responsiveness of fast WM.
I installed it alongside xerolinux (KDE) and it made me want to learn arch more. Power user who reinstall their Arch based distro periodically and want to be set quickly can love it.
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Version: 2023.01.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-17
Votes: 2
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Greetings! For a long time I wanted to put myself one of the two systems, something from Linux for everyday tasks and experiments. After reviewing several distributions with different environments, I accidentally caught the eye of Archcraft.
Of the environments, I liked Openbox, and in this distribution, it seems to be, by default, along with Bspwm. After installing and using it for a while, I realized that whoever made this distribution made it as if I were customizing the system for myself.
And then I installed Hyprland and now it's my main working environment.
From hardware, I have an Asus B-150M.2 motherboard, 8GB of memory, an Intel i5-7400 processor, built-in video. I use it at home as the main system for everyday tasks.
From the pluses for me, I didn’t have to dig into the settings a lot, everything worked out, as they say, out of the box. Well, the cons are the little things that you should not pay attention to.
Removed Firefox from applications, installed Yandex browser and qbittorrent.
p.s. Neofetch says I have a Sway. Yes, and don't care. :)
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Version: 2023.01.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-28
Votes: 3
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I've spent the last 4 days trying to change my day-to-day linux setup to something newer, more comfortable and also beautiful.
I've tried Arch Linux on its own and the installation was very time consuming of course.
After playing around with Arch and AwesomeWM for the last 4 days, I've come to the realization that I would need to spend a big amount of time tweaking AwesomeWM's configuration to get what I would like to have.
Furthermore, you need to know that I am no front-end engineer and I don't like spending my limited time learning WM APIs and adjusting colors, icons, fonts and all of that stuff. I don't know how to make beautiful UIs. I am just a guy doomed to use Spring Boot on my job. I just needed something functional and visually appealing. And that's when I found Archcraft.
I am not gonna lie people, the dude behind this distro did and amazing job over the years. I am very much in love with his work. I am praying to my knees for this distro to keep getting updates for many many years. I know this distro have little rough edges but I sincerely think everything is gonna get better and smoother as the time passes by.
If you are looking for something new, fresh and astonishing out of the box, I can't recommend Archcraft enough. 10/10
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Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-03
Votes: 2
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Since its release, out of curiosity I have tried it. I was struck by its versatility, lightness and stability, I continued to use it as my first operating system. Personally I installed the desktop mate only because I'm very familiar with this environment. Possibility of shaping it and adapting it to each one's use.
The distribution is very light and the somewhat dated PCs come back to life. I have tried many many distros based on archlinux including arch itself, archcraft is my favorite distro and will continue to use it. An excellent job also from the point of view of graphics, pleasant without excesses, infinitely customizable. I have 3 PCs at home and on all 3 I use archcraft, my wife also now uses archcraft :-)
Thanks Aditya for the wonderful work! We hope to release a customized version with desktop mate ;-) VOTE: 10
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-22
Votes: 0
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This is a pretty good distro . I used the XFCE version , installed it an it was running .
Its nice to learn about arch linux and the settings . First to do after installation is to update the system and then you can go on . With the pamac installer i set up the basic system in all way what i need , example : thunderbird, libreoffice , gimp and so on . Also flatpak and the setup in the pacman.conf is easy to go . The multilib repository was not activated , thats why iam wondering i had some errors in installing some packages ( wine 32 bit ) .
Its fun to setup a system for daily use individual in all ways .
I tried some other distros before but here i found a funny distro what i like very well .
Learning by doing and its a good way for a beginner to see how a system and its components is working .
Archcraft is running stabil and i had no errors so far after complete setup .
I hope this distro moves up in the ranking. Would be pretty cool !
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Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-11-08
Votes: 0
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Conclusion: the system is not at all suitable for ordinary use, you can not think about serious work.
Pros:
* Fast and non-trivial installation
* Many beautiful themes
* Excellent openbox adaptation
* Very beautiful system
Cons:
* No support for flatpack and snap
* There is no way to install professional software, for example webstorm
* Many bugs in drawing elements
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The system is great for familiarizing yourself with the possibility of customizing the system, but nothing more. It is not suitable for everyday use.
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Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-10-29
Votes: 5
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I recently installed the latest official release of Archcraft with XFCE in it. The installation went smoothly, without errors and/or without any surprises. This system is completely unprepared for use. A number of settings are not remembered and return to the default state. The system crashes every few minutes and it becomes impossible to work. According to the intention of the author of this system, this distribution was obviously supposed to combine convenience, versatility and ease of use. Unfortunately, all of these features have been implemented exactly the other way around. Such a crooked and inconvenient to use distribution I have not met yet!! ((
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Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-09-22
Votes: 5
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I am writing about the Openbox version.
The ready-made themes look great.
Useful scripts for switching themes, menu settings, a lot of other cool scripts, e.g. for recording the desktop.
It makes a great first impression.
Unfortunately, this is where the advantages end ...
After installation, it is unfortunately worse.
For example, if you change the resolution with the XFCE utility ... after rebooting, you can see tiled wallpaper and polybar in the center of the screen. There are many shortcomings of this type.
The number of problems suggests that the authors do not use it on a daily basis.
From me 3/10, I cannot recommend this distro to anyone at this stage.
But it's worth downloading and at least having fun with the themes in the live session.
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Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-17
Votes: 10
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Best arch distribution. It’s a mistery to me why this is not the the number one arch distribution here at the top.
Nice looking out of the box. Sane defaults, the most used tools and apps. Whenever I want a Linux computer up and running in no time, this is my choice.
Tried many other arch based and Debian based but none of them to my liking.
Nice work but as a one-man effort this need to draw more attention and get some help to keep up and living. The only concern is sometimes upgrading breaks things but you can correct simply editing a couple of confit files. Easy prays. Not for newcomers tough.
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Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-08-31
Votes: 2
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First, I liked the good design and pre-installed themes, they looked so nice out of the box.
But then I found some problems, maybe not from Archcraft itself, but from polybar in openbox, the tray icons are shown on fullscreen, youtube, gaming, etc.
The support is... somewhat absent.
I do not recommend it for daily draving a work machine, but you can always try it on a VM or live enviroment.
It is a good effort from the developer, they managed to gather nice looks out of the box.
Maybe give it some time, and it will be production ready.
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Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-08-23
Votes: 10
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Sorry, I can't recomend this distro. I'm rating it as 3/10, so, there is almost no pros I can point. The distro has pretty theme visuals and that is it. You can, however, download and install its themes in another distro, so, you don't need to use Archcraft in order to get the same visuals.
Unfortunately, I had many cons about the distro. The main one is the lack of official support when you are in trouble. Most of times you are by your own, there is no official support regarding technical problems, like dual monitor support, bugs after new features added, hidpi support and enterprise wi-fi connection. All of these problems are ignored, the distro only receives new theming features instead of fixes, which seem not be the priority.
The distro is also not user friendly as it seems to be in the screenshots. In 3 weeks using it, many bugs and issues are not solved via updates, but by manually editing a lot of config files, scripts and complex stuff that a new comer can potentially break the entire system if done incorrectly.
Unfortunately, with this many problems, I can't recomend the distro for now.
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Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-08-15
Votes: 1
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This distribution is very good, but it has its problems. I'll start with the point that I consider to be the most interesting. This distro is really light. My laptop with an old HDD boots in between 25-30 seconds. For comparison, another computer of mine with Windows 10 and a modern HDD takes more than 1 minute to boot. I currently have Archcraft installed on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop, Intel Core 2 duo T5550, 2GB DDR2. It works great, when I don't open any programs, the system consumes between 500-600mb of RAM with OpenBox. Now, on other positive points, the distro already comes with compositor, polybar, rofi and Atril. Now, about the negative points, the system's default text editor is Geany, which doesn't work well for me with Python and HTML/CSS, sometimes the shutdown button disappears or doesn't work and I need to shut down the computer through the command 'shutdown', the lock screen requires the password to be entered very quickly and the PT-BR translation is missing on some occasions. Despite these issues, I believe that the points outweigh the negatives and that this is the best distro I could install on my laptop.
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Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-21
Votes: 7
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I have been ricing my Arch for a while now however it is very time consuming and how I wish I could find a distro that would have a set of carefully curated themes that would suit my taste. I was very surprised in finding out that Archcraft does so and a whole lot more than that. I will be sticking with this distro for a while. I would rate it 10/10 for being such a minimal distro with all the developer tools that I need, pretty and i mean PRETTY desktop environment which provides the polished out of the box feeling (rarely seen this with any distros if ever). It gave me that feeling of finding Ubuntu for the first time back when it was first introduced. This distro does it, and it does it really well. Please consider donating as I think this is a single person's effort and he/she would deserve all the donation to keep this project going.
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Version: 2022.06.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-08
Votes: 0
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This flavor is a great way to learn how to configure your system, before taking the deep dive into installing Arch from the ground up. It's a fun way to learn how Openbox works if you're new to it. The developer provides nice, and easy to edit themes, and scripts to configure to your liking, these configs are also portable. The only thing I can see happening, as I see with every other Arch based GNU/LINUCKS flavor, is having a single dev / very small team, is the project going under due to dev burn out. It's possible, but this looks like a labor of love and the dev seems like a nice person.
It has my favorite packages installed out of the box. And it feels like it can be replicated easily if I wanted to take my own path.
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Version: 2022.06.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-25
Votes: 2
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Archcraft reminds me old times which I spent with Crunchbang (Plusplus) or Bunsenlabs, the only difference is that this system is much better. It is based on Arch (instead on Debian), so everything is fresh and new. Minimal, yet polite and functional system and desktop. I was really surprised, how it is customisable. It has many preinstalled themes, settings, conkys, and so on...yet it doesn't completely suit you, it won't bring things like on a gold tray. You must try a little harder, search, try, fail and try again.... And I really, really like the speed...it react fast, even on older machine.
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Version: 2022.04.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-14
Votes: 5
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I booted this live and I am amazed how it looks like and works. So minimal and so perfect.
Geany, Alacritty, zsh, JetBrains Mono font everywhere by default (looks wonderful), htop, mc, ranger... fsarchiver, clonezilla... It's all there.
The way every new window is opening next to each other or at the center of the screen looks great too.
The bar at the top is so nice and minimal.
I was not able to change the icons in live system, though.
It looks like a combination of OpenBox, XFCE and BSPWM.
Fantastic! Thank you for making it available!
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Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-14
Votes: 1
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Absolutely amazing. Was looking for a lightweight, pretty, arch-based OS with bspwm to run on my laptop since I did not want to go through all the ricing I have already done on my vanilla arch PC... Got way more than I asked for, highly impressed. Everything from the installation to the actual ram usage is great. Every little thing was carefully thought through and implemented with elegance and style. What a wonderful distro!
Especially liking:
* smooth way to change themes and ofc all the pretty themes
* the fact that timeshift comes with btrfs
* encrypted boot
* included music
Lots of love, from Sweden!
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Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-11
Votes: 2
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To The Dev - Thank you for such an awesome experience - I love the themes, especially the teal (Hack)..
The only thing I think would have made this distro any better was having Audacious pre-installed.
But hey, I know how to install (lol)
To those that want a minimalistic, fully functional and secure system - with a bit of pizazz - I suggest
you try out or even install this distribution. This Arch/Openbox with its preconfigured arrangements (polybar),
is nothing short of amazing.
It is like most archbased distributions, but like I have mentioned - It is minimal and fully customized.
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Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-04
Votes: 0
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Fast and beautiful. Arch-basing solves package finding problems, with built-in AUR. Not load ram very much, and still has very great style. Sometimes little buggy
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-28
Votes: 0
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i love archcraft, its my favorite arch-based distro.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-27
Votes: 5
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I couldn't get to install it at all. I am a Manjaro user and wanted to try something closer to Arch. I tried to install it 10 times doing everything as I would when I installed Manjaro.
It needs a separate 300 MB boot directory and will not install along side Windows boot loader.
I gave up after several failed tries
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 15
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had to correct issues right after fresh install. You would be better to go with EndeavourOS
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 0
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Excellent look OOB. Lots of customization available. Highly recommend!!
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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I use this OS as my daily driver, and I never had any problems with it. It helped me understand linux and Arch so much more than before, since my first OS was Zorin. I used it for a few months now, and I can only recommend it.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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This is the distro if you're looking to get your hands dirty with window managers, many cool styles for openbox, bspwm and other distros, highly recommended.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 1
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clean and minimalist. this is the best linux distro
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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Using it as my daily driver no issues at all simply elegant!
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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Overall it is a very good distro. It can sometimes be buggy but later releases always fix them. Their discord support server is also very helpful as well and bugs that aren't fixed with the release you get can always be resolved with their help.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-13
Votes: 0
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small and minimalist. im using default flavor and i really like it. sometimes i using Openbox, sometimes using Dwm.
minimalist but already to use. awesome distro with good look.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-07
Votes: 0
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really small and minimalist, im using the lite one. Sure you had to some experience on linux to install this. But its already gave us themed dwm, i3, openbox. Default using wm tiling window.
default shell is fish, everything already ready to use. its really great
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-06
Votes: 0
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this distro has a style, it uses lightweight desktop environments:
-xfce
-openbox
xfce being lightweight but functional,
openbox being very ligthweight, but not so functional, which is ok if you use it as a home server,
And because distro is based on arch, it has always fresh packages which is cool,
p.s:
it is based on systemd because arch is based on systemd, yes systemd is not lightweight, but it is practical for a small distro not to reinvent the wheel and be compatible with upstream as much as possible (arch on systemd).
for those who want arch on systemd alternatives -> there is always Artix Linux
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-28
Votes: 1
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A friend, an archlinux fan recommended me to test this distro, i was happy to do so.
You can feel Archcraft is young and very motivated distro. Existing is its simplicity, xfce, openbox, no bloated software management. You computing power is spared, which is not the case with many distros today.
With Archcraft the PC seems to get a new life. Very refreshing feeling.
Dear Aditya Shakya, keep up the good work!
Greetings from Munich, Germany!
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-15
Votes: 9
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You would think with using a window manager that this OS would be light and easy to use, but it isn’t: it’s mainly because of the use of systemd which is shown again and again to not be needed, systemd is basically bloatware and there are other, simpler and better init’s out there. There are too many programs to keep from being lightweight. You can uninstall the photons, but that’s not the point here. I’ve encountered some freezes trying to update the system and packages, so it’s not as stable. It’s a little frustrating to use because the documentation isn’t that good and is confusing.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-19
Votes: 3
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It is an absolutely amazing linux distro. I have gone from the Debian / Ubuntu world to Arch thanks to this distro: no installation problems, no problems recognizing my hardware, no problems updating pacman; everything is beautiful, minimalist, but very solid. It has many themes to change the look completely. If you love Arch, if you like openbox, this is your distro. Worth.
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Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-12
Votes: 1
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All the power of Arch; very stable, beautiful. I use it with GNOME, and everything is fine.
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Version:
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-08
Votes: 22
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Version 2021-10-05
Love this distro, it's very slick and light-weight. The only niggling thing that bothers me is where the .xsession-errors file so I can troubleshoot apps that aren't behaving?
Additionally, the distro' s creator needs to double check his gpg keys because they can't be downloaded for iso verification, and the keys don't display any fingerprint information. Hope that he reads this and rectifies this issue soon.
All-in-all, a great distro because I've been using Linux since 1998 so I've seen lots of them.
M.
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Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-03
Votes: 0
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This is my favourite linux and I don't want to hop to any other distro as I have tried most of the distros but always found some issues but this one is just masterpiece. I also love this because it is just maintained by just one developer and still it can compete with other distros and can easily win.
Cons
1. Could have fish shell by default
2. Oh my zsh takes some time to load. ~200ms
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Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-02
Votes: 0
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Best Linux os I ever used. This os is very close to Arch Linux. The only difference is Archcraft uses graphical installation heavily customized window managers like Openbox and etc.Ram usage less than 600bm by default.UI experience is awesome. I really love this os going on and I like wish developers to make this os best among another os.
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Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-02
Votes: 1
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Very beautiful distro👍
The distro that completely changed how I interact with my computer. After using bspwm for almost two months now, my productivity has crossed the roof! And I thank Archcraft for giving me this experience. Stable as a rock, and great for advanced and new users alike, I recommend this distro to everyone
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Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-10-01
Votes: 0
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Just transited from endeavour os to archcraft and im completly shock, awesome desktop with amazing performance!
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Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-26
Votes: 0
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i have been wanting to install Arch for awhile but i am fairly new at a text mode install so i tried a auto installer but couldn't get things to work correctly.
I tried Archcraft and the installation was super easy. Add a desktop ,and a few other programs and you got a great setup.
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Version: 2021.06.06
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-14
Votes: 0
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i using arch linux for longtime i like it
archcraft is very easy to install and look very nice i like it very much
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Version: 2021.06.06
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-07
Votes: 5
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The distro that completely changed how I interact with my computer. After using bspwm for almost two months now, my productivity has crossed the roof! And I thank Archcraft for giving me this experience. Stable as a rock, and great for advanced and new users alike, I recommend this distro to everyone.
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Version: 2021.06.06
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-08-28
Votes: 3
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Best Arch derivate so far, good integration of Alacritty, zsh and Fonts.
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Version: 2021.06.06
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-01
Votes: 4
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been using Archcraft in a couple of months...and am not disappointed....it's lightweight, solid and user-friendly distro....two thumbs up for Archcraft...
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Version: 2021.06.06
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-07-27
Votes: 14
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Superb OS , Using it .
Garuda And Archcract Are two ends of linux ,
one is heavy and for gamers
while other is light and for programmers ;
instead of dual booting linux and windows ,
i dual boot garuda and archcraft
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Latest Reviews
Project: Archcraft
Version: 2024.04.06
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-04-17
Votes: 18
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Disclaimer that I have only tried Archcraft with OpenBox in a virtual machine so far, but I try dozens of distros this way. Archcraft was harder than the majority to get working reliably, but it is now working.
It certainly looks good if you like flat design and carefully curated pastel-like colour schemes. The Ten built in styles apply flawlessly and look good, though any included Tint2 panel may appear at the top or bottom, they vary. It loads up in ~500Mb RAM and comes with a decent selection of software.
But a quick look over the website is not so encouraging. This is a one-person project - nothing unique or wrong there except that there are some 'Premium' versions available that cost from $5.99 up to $55.55, and the support for these consists of "Email me and i'll help you ASAP. " There are no official forums.
Mixed bag - fun to play with but not so good to recommend for work.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-04-04
Votes: 4
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I'm rather at odds over Archcraft. I have two older laptops I wanted to put a lightweight version of Arch on. This distro looked ideal. I previewed it on my main, high end system, with a 4GB of GPU and it ran smoothly, is easy on the eyes and its Arch which I like because I do most of my work from the command line.
I was really enthusiastic to try it on my low end systems, both of which exceeded the minimum requirement but in both cases, it only loaded to a black screen from a USB.I tried re-installing the OS on the USB in case it was buggy, I tried a different USB with a freshly downloaded ISO and then I tried another Arch distro to ensure I wasn't losing my mind. The latter worked fine on both laptops, loading from a USB with ease.
I then tried to find a fix by searching on line. This issue has been reported previously but I could not find a solution mentioned anywhere.
So in summary I can install Archcraft on a high end system I don't need a light version of Arch for, which in fact is already running Arch with all the bells and whistles but I can't install it on older hardware, its apparently designed to accommodate?
I'm not writing Archcraft off but as it stands right now, I'm better off installing pure Arch from the command line and electing to install Opebox, LXDE, XFCE window manager or similar on my ageing laptops.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-02
Votes: 21
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I've tried all the distrowatch list there on the right. As an apple desktop user it is very difficult for me to accept any of these desktops as provided by the distros. The result is that I spend endless hours tweaking the graphical environments to make them "make sense". In this distribution all I had to do was to replace the upper right logo button from dmenu to full screen launcher (nwg-drawer). For me, this is a big success! The design that has been done is more than correct and beautiful. The fact that a media player is provided in the bar makes you immediately press play. The background music while you work makes you have a pleasant time.
It's a distribution that smells Unix-Linux everywhere. It's fast, easy, hassle-free and, above all, well-designed. I also like the fact that it installs a classic floating window manager and a tilling window manager and they are sharing the same application set and theme. So you have the opportunity to work development in tilling wm and multimedia in floating wm with ease and without effort. On the other hand, the floating window manager has many tilling features and the shortcuts are almost the same. Other features I like are the in-build screen-shooter and color-picker without the need for further installation and bloating the system. An amazing job has been done there. I suggest you try it.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-10-31
Votes: 3
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Archcraft, especially with the premium spins, is one of the best options for anyone curious about using window managers/compositors like Hyperland, Sway, Newm-Atha, Bspwm, River, Wayfire, Qtile, blackbox, etc; they come fully configured and bug free. Many have custom themes and functionality to adjust themes to match wallpapers. Additionally, there is a vibrant discord community for answering questions. I've been running the Newm-Atha spin on my laptop and Sway on my desktop for 6 months without any issues.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.07.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-07
Votes: 8
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really, really good distro, i am still new to linux, but this works for me, i am using the openbox edition and i love it, i learnt how to do a few things via youtube, archcraft website, for pacman issues, and from looking at adityas config files once i had learnt form distrotube on youtube what ones to use and so on, everything is working well, it is fast in use, i installed my own media player, vlc by choice rather than the one that ships with archcraft, and i also after a small time purchased the premium openbox config by aditya, it all works so well, i love it, really, much more interesting than windows though i will, i think always keep my windows machine as well... best of both worlds, i tried lots of distros but this one suits me the best and is the most enjoyable of all of them, top marks to aditya the dev and i hope he gets all the support he needs to keep this very special distro, quality distro going being as by his own admission at the moment he is sort of a one man band, without doubt archcraft is best in class in my opinion,
sw,
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-09
Votes: 17
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In my opinion, this is one of the best linux distributions for everyday use (internet, multimedia, etc.). My favorite graphical environment of this distro is XFCE. The system is stable and very fast. It is also very easy to configure. My wifi connection is stable, no so far i have problems with the sound or graphics. This system can work for me without any problems for 5 hours without a break and nothing breaks down. I personally recommend this system even to less advanced linux users.In my opinion, this is a distribution worthy of interest.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-31
Votes: 6
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This is my favorite linux distro. In my opinion, it is the best system for browsing the internet and multimedia. The only problem I have is intermittent sound via bluetooth when connecting a smartphone, but the rest works great. It is a Rolling Realase system, so once installed it updates without the need to reinstall when a new version of the system is released. The LXDE version of the system is very light, consumes little RAM and is very stable despite frequent updates. After a month of use I had no problem with it. Timeshift works in this system without any problems if it gets a full snapshot of the system. The system itself takes up very little disk space and I generally recommend it for the typical user be it Desktop or Laptop.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-21
Votes: 6
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An outstanding Openbox experience.
Archcraft really does many things right when we seek for a minimal but yet very visually and coherent polished experience.
Switching skins on the fly in Openbox and you can see how the theming is handled in a superior way compared to KDE.
The nuances of the theming shine and you have control over element like the shadows to make them more suddle.
Some themes maximize a lot screen space availability with compact elements. Its appreciable for power users who bring many elements at once or work on small screens (retro screens, small laptop users can appreciate).
Having little bloat installed out of the box offer an increased stability. (updates integrates smoothly and can be delayed further).
The distro pushes you to get familiar with the usual terminal commands, once learned you enjoy the speed and enhanced control over your system. Then the provided other WM allow for a quick transition into a keyboard centric navigation workflow.
This way of using the system doesn't fit very well my graphic designer use case but it teaches me what become more advantageous that way.
Archcraft is used as a learning and transitioning OS for those curious to discover the beauty and responsiveness of fast WM.
I installed it alongside xerolinux (KDE) and it made me want to learn arch more. Power user who reinstall their Arch based distro periodically and want to be set quickly can love it.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.05.01
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-18
Votes: 4
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Archcraft does everything right. Not only is it fancy and pretty, it leaves you with grub fancy and pretty, and boots the operating system you chose last time. Those kinds of details make an operating system win points. It comes with yay pre-installed but no pamac or octopi: it doesn't matter, with yay -S pamac-aur installs in a minute. I have installed Archcraft Xfce and everything is going smoothly: for me it is one of the least bloated arch distros.
Some complain that it has no support. It usually happens with one-person projects. But I think if you are a regular arch user you don't need any support, you already have the arch wiki.
Great job!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-05-04
Votes: 3
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An outstanding Openbox experience.
Archcraft really does many things right when we seek for a minimal but yet very visually and coherent polished experience.
Switching skins on the fly in Openbox and you can see how the theming is handled in a superior way compared to KDE.
The nuances of the theming shine and you have control over element like the shadows to make them more suddle.
Some themes maximize a lot screen space availability with compact elements. Its appreciable for power users who bring many elements at once or work on small screens (retro screens, small laptop users can appreciate).
Having little bloat installed out of the box offer an increased stability. (updates integrates smoothly and can be delayed further).
The distro pushes you to get familiar with the usual terminal commands, once learned you enjoy the speed and enhanced control over your system. Then the provided other WM allow for a quick transition into a keyboard centric navigation workflow.
This way of using the system doesn't fit very well my graphic designer use case but it teaches me what become more advantageous that way.
Archcraft is used as a learning and transitioning OS for those curious to discover the beauty and responsiveness of fast WM.
I installed it alongside xerolinux (KDE) and it made me want to learn arch more. Power user who reinstall their Arch based distro periodically and want to be set quickly can love it.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.01.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-17
Votes: 2
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Greetings! For a long time I wanted to put myself one of the two systems, something from Linux for everyday tasks and experiments. After reviewing several distributions with different environments, I accidentally caught the eye of Archcraft.
Of the environments, I liked Openbox, and in this distribution, it seems to be, by default, along with Bspwm. After installing and using it for a while, I realized that whoever made this distribution made it as if I were customizing the system for myself.
And then I installed Hyprland and now it's my main working environment.
From hardware, I have an Asus B-150M.2 motherboard, 8GB of memory, an Intel i5-7400 processor, built-in video. I use it at home as the main system for everyday tasks.
From the pluses for me, I didn’t have to dig into the settings a lot, everything worked out, as they say, out of the box. Well, the cons are the little things that you should not pay attention to.
Removed Firefox from applications, installed Yandex browser and qbittorrent.
p.s. Neofetch says I have a Sway. Yes, and don't care. :)
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2023.01.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-28
Votes: 3
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I've spent the last 4 days trying to change my day-to-day linux setup to something newer, more comfortable and also beautiful.
I've tried Arch Linux on its own and the installation was very time consuming of course.
After playing around with Arch and AwesomeWM for the last 4 days, I've come to the realization that I would need to spend a big amount of time tweaking AwesomeWM's configuration to get what I would like to have.
Furthermore, you need to know that I am no front-end engineer and I don't like spending my limited time learning WM APIs and adjusting colors, icons, fonts and all of that stuff. I don't know how to make beautiful UIs. I am just a guy doomed to use Spring Boot on my job. I just needed something functional and visually appealing. And that's when I found Archcraft.
I am not gonna lie people, the dude behind this distro did and amazing job over the years. I am very much in love with his work. I am praying to my knees for this distro to keep getting updates for many many years. I know this distro have little rough edges but I sincerely think everything is gonna get better and smoother as the time passes by.
If you are looking for something new, fresh and astonishing out of the box, I can't recommend Archcraft enough. 10/10
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-03
Votes: 2
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Since its release, out of curiosity I have tried it. I was struck by its versatility, lightness and stability, I continued to use it as my first operating system. Personally I installed the desktop mate only because I'm very familiar with this environment. Possibility of shaping it and adapting it to each one's use.
The distribution is very light and the somewhat dated PCs come back to life. I have tried many many distros based on archlinux including arch itself, archcraft is my favorite distro and will continue to use it. An excellent job also from the point of view of graphics, pleasant without excesses, infinitely customizable. I have 3 PCs at home and on all 3 I use archcraft, my wife also now uses archcraft :-)
Thanks Aditya for the wonderful work! We hope to release a customized version with desktop mate ;-) VOTE: 10
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-22
Votes: 0
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This is a pretty good distro . I used the XFCE version , installed it an it was running .
Its nice to learn about arch linux and the settings . First to do after installation is to update the system and then you can go on . With the pamac installer i set up the basic system in all way what i need , example : thunderbird, libreoffice , gimp and so on . Also flatpak and the setup in the pacman.conf is easy to go . The multilib repository was not activated , thats why iam wondering i had some errors in installing some packages ( wine 32 bit ) .
Its fun to setup a system for daily use individual in all ways .
I tried some other distros before but here i found a funny distro what i like very well .
Learning by doing and its a good way for a beginner to see how a system and its components is working .
Archcraft is running stabil and i had no errors so far after complete setup .
I hope this distro moves up in the ranking. Would be pretty cool !
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-11-08
Votes: 0
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Conclusion: the system is not at all suitable for ordinary use, you can not think about serious work.
Pros:
* Fast and non-trivial installation
* Many beautiful themes
* Excellent openbox adaptation
* Very beautiful system
Cons:
* No support for flatpack and snap
* There is no way to install professional software, for example webstorm
* Many bugs in drawing elements
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The system is great for familiarizing yourself with the possibility of customizing the system, but nothing more. It is not suitable for everyday use.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-10-29
Votes: 5
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I recently installed the latest official release of Archcraft with XFCE in it. The installation went smoothly, without errors and/or without any surprises. This system is completely unprepared for use. A number of settings are not remembered and return to the default state. The system crashes every few minutes and it becomes impossible to work. According to the intention of the author of this system, this distribution was obviously supposed to combine convenience, versatility and ease of use. Unfortunately, all of these features have been implemented exactly the other way around. Such a crooked and inconvenient to use distribution I have not met yet!! ((
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.09.16
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-09-22
Votes: 5
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I am writing about the Openbox version.
The ready-made themes look great.
Useful scripts for switching themes, menu settings, a lot of other cool scripts, e.g. for recording the desktop.
It makes a great first impression.
Unfortunately, this is where the advantages end ...
After installation, it is unfortunately worse.
For example, if you change the resolution with the XFCE utility ... after rebooting, you can see tiled wallpaper and polybar in the center of the screen. There are many shortcomings of this type.
The number of problems suggests that the authors do not use it on a daily basis.
From me 3/10, I cannot recommend this distro to anyone at this stage.
But it's worth downloading and at least having fun with the themes in the live session.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-17
Votes: 10
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Best arch distribution. It’s a mistery to me why this is not the the number one arch distribution here at the top.
Nice looking out of the box. Sane defaults, the most used tools and apps. Whenever I want a Linux computer up and running in no time, this is my choice.
Tried many other arch based and Debian based but none of them to my liking.
Nice work but as a one-man effort this need to draw more attention and get some help to keep up and living. The only concern is sometimes upgrading breaks things but you can correct simply editing a couple of confit files. Easy prays. Not for newcomers tough.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-08-31
Votes: 2
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First, I liked the good design and pre-installed themes, they looked so nice out of the box.
But then I found some problems, maybe not from Archcraft itself, but from polybar in openbox, the tray icons are shown on fullscreen, youtube, gaming, etc.
The support is... somewhat absent.
I do not recommend it for daily draving a work machine, but you can always try it on a VM or live enviroment.
It is a good effort from the developer, they managed to gather nice looks out of the box.
Maybe give it some time, and it will be production ready.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 3
Date: 2022-08-23
Votes: 10
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Sorry, I can't recomend this distro. I'm rating it as 3/10, so, there is almost no pros I can point. The distro has pretty theme visuals and that is it. You can, however, download and install its themes in another distro, so, you don't need to use Archcraft in order to get the same visuals.
Unfortunately, I had many cons about the distro. The main one is the lack of official support when you are in trouble. Most of times you are by your own, there is no official support regarding technical problems, like dual monitor support, bugs after new features added, hidpi support and enterprise wi-fi connection. All of these problems are ignored, the distro only receives new theming features instead of fixes, which seem not be the priority.
The distro is also not user friendly as it seems to be in the screenshots. In 3 weeks using it, many bugs and issues are not solved via updates, but by manually editing a lot of config files, scripts and complex stuff that a new comer can potentially break the entire system if done incorrectly.
Unfortunately, with this many problems, I can't recomend the distro for now.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-08-15
Votes: 1
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This distribution is very good, but it has its problems. I'll start with the point that I consider to be the most interesting. This distro is really light. My laptop with an old HDD boots in between 25-30 seconds. For comparison, another computer of mine with Windows 10 and a modern HDD takes more than 1 minute to boot. I currently have Archcraft installed on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop, Intel Core 2 duo T5550, 2GB DDR2. It works great, when I don't open any programs, the system consumes between 500-600mb of RAM with OpenBox. Now, on other positive points, the distro already comes with compositor, polybar, rofi and Atril. Now, about the negative points, the system's default text editor is Geany, which doesn't work well for me with Python and HTML/CSS, sometimes the shutdown button disappears or doesn't work and I need to shut down the computer through the command 'shutdown', the lock screen requires the password to be entered very quickly and the PT-BR translation is missing on some occasions. Despite these issues, I believe that the points outweigh the negatives and that this is the best distro I could install on my laptop.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.07.18
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-21
Votes: 7
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I have been ricing my Arch for a while now however it is very time consuming and how I wish I could find a distro that would have a set of carefully curated themes that would suit my taste. I was very surprised in finding out that Archcraft does so and a whole lot more than that. I will be sticking with this distro for a while. I would rate it 10/10 for being such a minimal distro with all the developer tools that I need, pretty and i mean PRETTY desktop environment which provides the polished out of the box feeling (rarely seen this with any distros if ever). It gave me that feeling of finding Ubuntu for the first time back when it was first introduced. This distro does it, and it does it really well. Please consider donating as I think this is a single person's effort and he/she would deserve all the donation to keep this project going.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.06.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-07-08
Votes: 0
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This flavor is a great way to learn how to configure your system, before taking the deep dive into installing Arch from the ground up. It's a fun way to learn how Openbox works if you're new to it. The developer provides nice, and easy to edit themes, and scripts to configure to your liking, these configs are also portable. The only thing I can see happening, as I see with every other Arch based GNU/LINUCKS flavor, is having a single dev / very small team, is the project going under due to dev burn out. It's possible, but this looks like a labor of love and the dev seems like a nice person.
It has my favorite packages installed out of the box. And it feels like it can be replicated easily if I wanted to take my own path.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.06.08
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-25
Votes: 2
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Archcraft reminds me old times which I spent with Crunchbang (Plusplus) or Bunsenlabs, the only difference is that this system is much better. It is based on Arch (instead on Debian), so everything is fresh and new. Minimal, yet polite and functional system and desktop. I was really surprised, how it is customisable. It has many preinstalled themes, settings, conkys, and so on...yet it doesn't completely suit you, it won't bring things like on a gold tray. You must try a little harder, search, try, fail and try again.... And I really, really like the speed...it react fast, even on older machine.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.04.07
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-14
Votes: 5
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I booted this live and I am amazed how it looks like and works. So minimal and so perfect.
Geany, Alacritty, zsh, JetBrains Mono font everywhere by default (looks wonderful), htop, mc, ranger... fsarchiver, clonezilla... It's all there.
The way every new window is opening next to each other or at the center of the screen looks great too.
The bar at the top is so nice and minimal.
I was not able to change the icons in live system, though.
It looks like a combination of OpenBox, XFCE and BSPWM.
Fantastic! Thank you for making it available!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-14
Votes: 1
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Absolutely amazing. Was looking for a lightweight, pretty, arch-based OS with bspwm to run on my laptop since I did not want to go through all the ricing I have already done on my vanilla arch PC... Got way more than I asked for, highly impressed. Everything from the installation to the actual ram usage is great. Every little thing was carefully thought through and implemented with elegance and style. What a wonderful distro!
Especially liking:
* smooth way to change themes and ofc all the pretty themes
* the fact that timeshift comes with btrfs
* encrypted boot
* included music
Lots of love, from Sweden!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-11
Votes: 2
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To The Dev - Thank you for such an awesome experience - I love the themes, especially the teal (Hack)..
The only thing I think would have made this distro any better was having Audacious pre-installed.
But hey, I know how to install (lol)
To those that want a minimalistic, fully functional and secure system - with a bit of pizazz - I suggest
you try out or even install this distribution. This Arch/Openbox with its preconfigured arrangements (polybar),
is nothing short of amazing.
It is like most archbased distributions, but like I have mentioned - It is minimal and fully customized.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2022.02.02
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-04
Votes: 0
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Fast and beautiful. Arch-basing solves package finding problems, with built-in AUR. Not load ram very much, and still has very great style. Sometimes little buggy
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-28
Votes: 0
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i love archcraft, its my favorite arch-based distro.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-27
Votes: 5
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I couldn't get to install it at all. I am a Manjaro user and wanted to try something closer to Arch. I tried to install it 10 times doing everything as I would when I installed Manjaro.
It needs a separate 300 MB boot directory and will not install along side Windows boot loader.
I gave up after several failed tries
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-23
Votes: 15
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had to correct issues right after fresh install. You would be better to go with EndeavourOS
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-22
Votes: 0
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Excellent look OOB. Lots of customization available. Highly recommend!!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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Overall it is a very good distro. It can sometimes be buggy but later releases always fix them. Their discord support server is also very helpful as well and bugs that aren't fixed with the release you get can always be resolved with their help.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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Using it as my daily driver no issues at all simply elegant!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 1
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clean and minimalist. this is the best linux distro
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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This is the distro if you're looking to get your hands dirty with window managers, many cool styles for openbox, bspwm and other distros, highly recommended.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-21
Votes: 0
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I use this OS as my daily driver, and I never had any problems with it. It helped me understand linux and Arch so much more than before, since my first OS was Zorin. I used it for a few months now, and I can only recommend it.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-13
Votes: 0
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small and minimalist. im using default flavor and i really like it. sometimes i using Openbox, sometimes using Dwm.
minimalist but already to use. awesome distro with good look.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-07
Votes: 0
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really small and minimalist, im using the lite one. Sure you had to some experience on linux to install this. But its already gave us themed dwm, i3, openbox. Default using wm tiling window.
default shell is fish, everything already ready to use. its really great
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-06
Votes: 0
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this distro has a style, it uses lightweight desktop environments:
-xfce
-openbox
xfce being lightweight but functional,
openbox being very ligthweight, but not so functional, which is ok if you use it as a home server,
And because distro is based on arch, it has always fresh packages which is cool,
p.s:
it is based on systemd because arch is based on systemd, yes systemd is not lightweight, but it is practical for a small distro not to reinvent the wheel and be compatible with upstream as much as possible (arch on systemd).
for those who want arch on systemd alternatives -> there is always Artix Linux
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-28
Votes: 1
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A friend, an archlinux fan recommended me to test this distro, i was happy to do so.
You can feel Archcraft is young and very motivated distro. Existing is its simplicity, xfce, openbox, no bloated software management. You computing power is spared, which is not the case with many distros today.
With Archcraft the PC seems to get a new life. Very refreshing feeling.
Dear Aditya Shakya, keep up the good work!
Greetings from Munich, Germany!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-15
Votes: 9
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You would think with using a window manager that this OS would be light and easy to use, but it isn’t: it’s mainly because of the use of systemd which is shown again and again to not be needed, systemd is basically bloatware and there are other, simpler and better init’s out there. There are too many programs to keep from being lightweight. You can uninstall the photons, but that’s not the point here. I’ve encountered some freezes trying to update the system and packages, so it’s not as stable. It’s a little frustrating to use because the documentation isn’t that good and is confusing.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-19
Votes: 3
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It is an absolutely amazing linux distro. I have gone from the Debian / Ubuntu world to Arch thanks to this distro: no installation problems, no problems recognizing my hardware, no problems updating pacman; everything is beautiful, minimalist, but very solid. It has many themes to change the look completely. If you love Arch, if you like openbox, this is your distro. Worth.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.10.05
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-12
Votes: 1
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All the power of Arch; very stable, beautiful. I use it with GNOME, and everything is fine.
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Project: Archcraft
Version:
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-08
Votes: 22
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Version 2021-10-05
Love this distro, it's very slick and light-weight. The only niggling thing that bothers me is where the .xsession-errors file so I can troubleshoot apps that aren't behaving?
Additionally, the distro' s creator needs to double check his gpg keys because they can't be downloaded for iso verification, and the keys don't display any fingerprint information. Hope that he reads this and rectifies this issue soon.
All-in-all, a great distro because I've been using Linux since 1998 so I've seen lots of them.
M.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-03
Votes: 0
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This is my favourite linux and I don't want to hop to any other distro as I have tried most of the distros but always found some issues but this one is just masterpiece. I also love this because it is just maintained by just one developer and still it can compete with other distros and can easily win.
Cons
1. Could have fish shell by default
2. Oh my zsh takes some time to load. ~200ms
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-02
Votes: 1
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Very beautiful distro👍
The distro that completely changed how I interact with my computer. After using bspwm for almost two months now, my productivity has crossed the roof! And I thank Archcraft for giving me this experience. Stable as a rock, and great for advanced and new users alike, I recommend this distro to everyone
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-02
Votes: 0
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Best Linux os I ever used. This os is very close to Arch Linux. The only difference is Archcraft uses graphical installation heavily customized window managers like Openbox and etc.Ram usage less than 600bm by default.UI experience is awesome. I really love this os going on and I like wish developers to make this os best among another os.
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-10-01
Votes: 0
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Just transited from endeavour os to archcraft and im completly shock, awesome desktop with amazing performance!
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Project: Archcraft
Version: 2021.09.25
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-26
Votes: 0
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i have been wanting to install Arch for awhile but i am fairly new at a text mode install so i tried a auto installer but couldn't get things to work correctly.
I tried Archcraft and the installation was super easy. Add a desktop ,and a few other programs and you got a great setup.
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