Arch Linux Alternatives

Arch Linux is described as 'Independently developed, x86_64 optimized GNU/Linux distribution targeted at competent Linux users. It uses pacman, its home-grown package manager, to provide updates to the latest software applications with full dependency tracking' and is a leading Linux Distro in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Arch Linux for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Self-Hosted, Windows, BSD and Mac apps. The best Arch Linux alternative is Manjaro Linux, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Arch Linux are Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.

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  1. EasyOS icon
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    EasyOS is an experimental Linux distribution that uses many technologies and package formats pioneered by Puppy Linux .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. eweOS icon
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    eweOS is a Linux distribution using musl as libc, compiled by clang, adopting dinit as supervision process, shipping pacman as system-wide package manager and busybox instead of coreutils. It also covers a set of alternatives of basic components, such as mimalloc, mold and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Endless OS icon
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    Endless OS is a Linux-based operating system which provides a simplified and streamlined user experience using a customized desktop environment forked from GNOME 3. Rather than using a traditional Linux package management system, Endless OS uses a read-only root file system...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Calculate Linux is based on Gentoo that is well known for its stability and great performance on a broad range of hardware: from Pentium Pro to modern CPUs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. NuTyX icon
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    Simple Linux (based on LFS).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Siduction icon
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    The siduction distribution is a desktop-oriented operating system and live medium based on the 'unstable' branch of Debian GNU/Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. parch means persian arch, yet another distro based on arch.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. ChromeOS Flex icon
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    Cloud-first, fast, easy-to-manage, and secure operating system for PCs and Macs. ChromeOS Flex is a sustainable way to modernize devices you already own. It’s easy to deploy across your fleet or simply try it to see what a cloud-first OS has to offer.

    62 ChromeOS Flex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
     
  9. GoboLinux icon
     8 likes

    GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    GoboLinux is quite slow in updating even the most important packages. Not good for my usage. Might be good for you...

    • GoboLinux is Free and Open SourceArch Linux is also Free and Open Source
  10. pearOS icon
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    pearOS is a linux distribution that aims for UI and UX, offering a mac like feeling, now even on older PCs. Why hackintosh when you can pearintosh?

    45 pearOS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Dynebolic icon
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    Free software operating system for media activists, artists and creatives. Dynebolic is as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognised most...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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