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A farewell to the ArcoLinux University

Reflecting on 8 Years of Teaching, Building, and Promoting Linux

After eight years of dedication to the ArcoLinux project and the broader Linux community, the time has come for me to step away.
This decision wasn’t made lightly. But as I approach 60, I’ve found myself with less energy, less focus, and making small mistakes that remind me I’m no longer at my peak. I want to leave ArcoLinux while it’s still strong, and while I can look back with pride at everything we’ve accomplished together.

What We’ve Achieved Together

Since day one, ArcoLinux has stood for education, experimentation, and empowerment. I didn’t just want to build a distro — I wanted to help people learn Linux, love Linux, and grow into confident users, tinkerers, and developers.
Here are just a few milestones I’m proud of:

🎓 Over 5,000 educational videos on YouTube — covering everything from Arch basics to advanced configurations.
🧰 The creation of ArcoInstall, a flexible and evolving installer experience for learning-by-doing.
🏗️ Carli (Custom Arch Linux ISO) – a full educational project teaching you how to build your own Arch-based ISO from scratch.
🌐 ALCI (Arch Linux Calamares Installer) – demonstrating how to combine Arch power with graphical simplicity.
🌀 ArcoPlasma, ArcoNet, ArcoPro, Ariser – each tailored to different use cases and learning paths.
💬 Countless hours spent on forums, Discord, Telegram, and email, helping users solve problems, understand systems, and grow.
🧪 Encouraging people to try Bspwm, i3, Chadwm, Xmonad, Qtile, AwesomeWM, and many more tiling window managers.
📦 Teaching how to build AUR packages, create your own repos, and dive deep into pacman, zsh, bash, systemd, and beyond.

We weren’t just maintaining a distro — we were teaching a mindset.

Why It’s Time to Step Back

Aging is humbling. As I near 60, I’ve come to realize I simply don’t have the same mental sharpness or stamina I used to. I catch myself making little mistakes — the kind that matter when you’re maintaining an ecosystem with this many moving parts.
Rather than let that diminish the quality of ArcoLinux, I choose to leave it while it’s still stable, respected, and valuable.

What Comes Next?

I don’t have big plans. I want to slow down, enjoy life, and maybe tinker with Linux just for fun again — without the pressure of running a large project. The code, the videos, the documentation — they’ll remain online for others to learn from, fork, or remix. I truly hope others will take inspiration from it. Just as I was inspired by the community years ago.

Thank You

To every user, contributor, tester, question-asker, and silent learner: thank you.
You kept me going on the hard days. You turned this from a solo effort into a true community.
ArcoLinux lives on — in your terminals, your ISOs, your curiosity.

ArcoLinux lives on — in your terminals, your ISOs, your curiosity.

Please… keep experimenting. Keep breaking things. Keep learning. And always:
Have fun with Linux.
Warm regards,
ArcoLinux Team – ArcoLinux Betatesters

How to continue forward

Moving away from ArcoLinux to ArchLinux and Chaotic-AUR
Breathe in – breathe out
Just update – we will make the changes

Moving away from ArcoLinux to ArchLinux and Chaotic-AUR
Breath in – breath out
Just update – we will make the changes

We have made the decision to end all projects within the ArcoLinux ecosystem. This includes the discontinuation of all Arco ISOs including Arcoinstall, Carli, Alci, Ariser, tools, apps, scripts and infrastructure that we have maintained over the years.

This includes the discontinuation of all Arco ISOs including

Arcoinstall,
Carli,
Alci,
Ariser,
tools,
apps,
scripts and
infrastructure

that we have maintained over the years.

We will keep the websites up and running for several years and all videos on Youtube will stay online. All the githubs will stay online as well.

We will keep the websites up and running for several years and all videos on Youtube, Odysee will stay online.
- All the githubs will stay online as well.

Moving Forward

Going forward, we will provide you with transition packages that allows users to convert their existing ArcoLinux systems into an Arch Linux setup. This package will:

Remove ArcoLinux branding (logos and themes) wherever needed/wanted
Replace pacman.conf with a new one focused on Arch and Chaotic-AUR
Change the arcolinux-mirrorlist into one source only – github (free)

You can keep on rolling as you are on Arch – no need to reinstall

While we will no longer build or maintain our own or AUR packages, we will rely on Chaotic-AUR to provide binary packages. This community resource will continue the heavy lifting for AUR support — a role we have fulfilled ourselves for the past 8 years.

Support

We will continue to support you throughout this transition period until July 1st, 2025.
This date will mark the official end of the ArcoLinux project. By then, all social media channels will have been deactivated. Telegram and Discord will remain available the longest and will be the final platforms to close.

Support to transition to Arch

Information and videos will be added here till the 1st of July.

The bend in the road is not the end of the road—unless you fail to make the turn.

The bend in the road is not the end of the road—unless you fail to make the turn.

Turn ArcoLinux into Arch Linux

  Here is the playlist with all the support videos to make a complete transition from ArcoLinux to Arch Linux.
  No need to reinstall.
  No need to jump ship.
  No need to find a new distro.
  Just type “update” and become Arch Linux and keep rolling.