Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Arch Linux
The 20 closest Linux distribution alternatives to Arch Linux, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Arch Linux? The closest matches are Linux kernel, Gentoo Linux and Debian. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 12 ms
01 · Entity
About Arch Linux
Arch Linux archlinux.org
Arch Linux
Wikidata: Linux distribution
Summary by Claude
Official website of Arch Linux, a free, minimal, rolling-release Linux distribution, providing downloads, package repositories, news and security advisories, a wiki, forums and mailing lists.
- Who it’s for
- Experienced Linux users and developers
- Business model
- Donations; non-commercial open source project
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Arch Linux
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Arch Linux, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close cos 0.923 - 02
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close cos 0.912 - 03
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 cos 0.907 - 04
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 cos 0.899 - 05
Oracle VirtualBox
open-source x86 virtualization application
Close cos 0.894 - 06
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open-source desktop environment software project
Close cos 0.892 - 07
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
Close cos 0.891 - 08 archive.is Top 1K
Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
Close cos 0.887 - 09
Fedora Linux | The Fedora Project
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
Close cos 0.888 - 10
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.887 - 11
software and tech-news website based in Romania
Close cos 0.887 - 12
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org
Perl package repository
Close cos 0.885 - 13
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Close cos 0.885 - 14
Git
distributed version control system
Close cos 0.885 - 15
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.885 - 16 Close cos 0.880
- 17 Close cos 0.881
- 18
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.880 - 19
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Close cos 0.879 - 20 Close cos 0.878
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to archlinux.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Arch Linux uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Arch Linux is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Arch Linux adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- nginx 7/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on archlinux.org 6/20
- jQuery · not on archlinux.org 5/20
- Fastly · not on archlinux.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on archlinux.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Font Awesome · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on archlinux.org 2/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on archlinux.org 2/20