What is the best linux distro for home use and why is it Arch?

Thought that was Slackware.

>>58808131
It's arch for sure. Rolling release is cool and the aur makes installing pretty much anything easy mode.

That said, arch is dropping x86 support soon. What should I install in my old machine?
Was thinking about fedora, debian or maybe void.

>>58808131
>arch is dropping x86 support
Personally when I can't use Arch then I go with a Debian net install.

>>58808142
I don't understand Slackware. Why is it presumed to be advanced? Don't they have a package manager? Or how do they install software?

>>58808131
>arch
Lol if you're going to use pre compiled binaries you might as well stick with Ubuntu.

>>58808131
Look mom pacman raped X11 again!

>>58808455
The purpose of using Arch is because out of the box you literally just have a kernel and nothing more, so it is very lightweight and minimal. I haven't installed Ubuntu in a while, but I'm pretty sure out of the box it has a ton of preinstalled garbage that you pretty much can't avoid installing.

>>58808496
>MOOOOOOOOOOM. CANCEL THE SUPER BOWL PARTY... PACMAN BROKE MY ENTIRE FUCKING ARCH INSTALL. FUCKING TIRED OF THIS SHIT MAN.

>>58808142
Fucking this.
Slackware rules!

>>58808131
arch is simply the best. I only had to spend four hours installing my OS. That was after the installation commands fucked up my Windows partitions several times. Then i ran pacman -Syu the next day, and what do you know, my kernel is broken! So I rereformat the usb into an archiso so I can fix my computer, taking another ten minutes. After all of that, I installed my AMD driver. Oh, wait...

>>58808131
well it's 2017, can anyone give me a single example of arch being used for something productive?

>>58810230
>it is very lightweight and minimal
the arch base is 1GB just like ubuntu's

>>58810230
>lightweight and minimal
>arch
STOP TROLLING ANON IT'S NOT WORKING

>>58808347
They are? Looks like it's time to install gentoo...