May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?
Less about customizations and more just it doing what i want, and not doing things i don’t want. When you build it all from the ground up then you don’t have surpise bloat or walls to work around/within.
But most of my customizing from what people use probably would be around my dev environments. Things like rebuilding python libraries to support my gpu are fairly trivial in arch when i need to deviate from releases available through package managers (aur/pypi). Another thing was setting up my data science environments to share some core libraries but venv the rest.
It’s a hard question to answer though because fundamentally I’m just using the computer how i want to use it. When you say customization it sounds like you are expecting me to do things differently than other people and really it’s just like i said earlier-- doing things i want it to do, and not doing things i don’t want it to do. And I’m not really sure what walls other people are stuck behind for me to know what I’m doing differently. I just find a problem, fix it, and move on