Arch Linux vs Windows

Overview

Arch Linux

Stacks563

Followers555

Votes108

Windows

Stacks1.1K

Followers803

Votes3

Arch Linux vs Windows: What are the differences?

What is Arch Linux? A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

What is Windows? A group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed by Microsoft. A series of personal computer operating systems produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows NT family of operating systems.

Arch Linux and Windows can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.

Ericsson, iPhady, and House Extension Designs are some of the popular companies that use Windows, whereas Arch Linux is used by Decision6, IT-Partner-Berlin, and store2be GmbH. Windows has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to Arch Linux, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.

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Simon

Developer Advocate at k6 / Load Impact

Mar 7, 2020

Decided

At the moment of the decision, my desktop was the primary place I did work. Due to this, I can't have it blow up on me while I work. While Arch is interesting and powerful, Ubuntu offers (at least for me) a lot more stability and lets me focus on other things than maintaining my own OS installation.

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Detailed Comparison

Arch Linux	Windows
A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.	A series of personal computer operating systems produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows NT family of operating systems.
Statistics
Stacks 563	Stacks 1.1K
Followers 555	Followers 803
Votes 108	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 17 Large Community 15 Package Manager 13 Customizable 12 Rolling Release 11 Arch User Repository Cons 4 Systemd only 3 Only X86_64 architecture is offically supported 1 Comparatively fewer offically supported packages 1 Unstable 1 System maintenance	Pros 3 Lovely Cons 2 Proprietary 1 Not free to use
Integrations
No integrations available	Firefox Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Slack Windows Terminal Hyper Terminal Google Chrome

What are some alternatives to Arch Linux, Windows?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.

Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Manjaro

It is an accessible, friendly, open-source Linux distribution and community. Based on Arch Linux, it provides all the benefits of cutting-edge software combined with a focus on getting started quickly, automated tools to require less manual intervention, and help readily available when needed.