Only tangentially related, but this post made me think about how everyone historically sees the day when Windows stopped being built on top of DOS as an advancement. If that ever happened on Linux, where there was no longer a fully functional base Linux system without graphical system libraries, my entire reality would shatter beneath my feet.

The difference from Obtanium seems to be that it presents an app-store front end, so you can browse and search for packages. Obtanium requires manual setup for each repo you want to add.

sudo apt upgrade -U -y

I look at it more like Artix exists to solve the one “problem” with Arch. As much as Arch is generally about user choice, the one thing it decided to be opinionated about was the mandatory use of systemd. Artix tries to follow Arch as closely as possible while providing the alternate init systems. I think that’s pretty cool, even if their hatred of systemd is childish.