LOL, some people do seem to signal technical prowess by their use of Arch.
Personally I'm quite fed up with having to read a treatise on the entire display stack and it's history with electron guns, modelines, etc, when I go searching for how to simply change the screen resolution. This seems to be a problem with linux in general, but Arch is, um, the archetype, IMHO.
Though on the other hand, when you're trying to debug some linux issue there's not often a better resource than the arch wiki. Even when not using arch yourself.
Slight exaggeration there but yeah, I think there is an expectation that you would want to known how it works as well as how to use it. For me that’s a good thing, but sure it’s not for everyone.
Personally I'm quite fed up with having to read a treatise on the entire display stack and it's history with electron guns, modelines, etc, when I go searching for how to simply change the screen resolution. This seems to be a problem with linux in general, but Arch is, um, the archetype, IMHO.