archlinux.org
Arch Linux
Who runs Arch Linux, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Linux distribution alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Manjaro
Measured from Arch Linux’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Arch Linux01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Arch Linux
Arch Linux archlinux.org
Wikidata: Linux distribution
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Arch Linux tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Arch Linux’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Arch Linux
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Arch Linux, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 02
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 03
Enter the void
Welcome to the Void
Very close - 04
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Close - 05
The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Very close - 06
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Close - 07
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
Very close - 08
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 09
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Very close - 10
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 11
Funtoo Linux: What Comes Next
Official statement of direction: Funtoo Linux project status and future successor timeline.
Very close - 12
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 13
xorg
graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems
Very close - 14
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 15
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close - 16
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Close - 17
OpenBSD
the main OpenBSD page
Close - 18
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Close - 19
Home - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.
Close - 20
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines | Django
The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Arch Linux’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Arch Linux uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Arch Linux adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Arch Linux’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- DNS hosting
- Hetzner DNS NS oxygen.ns.hetzner.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=F97csw0ecpiXCqiJj9YKfEu_Gdvhx6pCN7DpwZJRbvI
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- nginx 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on archlinux.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on archlinux.org 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on archlinux.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on archlinux.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on archlinux.org 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on archlinux.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on archlinux.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Nuxt · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Tailwind CSS · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Vue.js · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- jQuery · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Font Awesome · not on archlinux.org 2/20