Hi, I just signed up after being referred by the TechSnap youtube show. I would have liked to start an Arch Linux droplet but didn't want to be inconvenienced by a dropped product. Please consider maintaining support for Arch Linux.

Please, do not remove Arch Linux from DigitalOcean.

Arch Linux is the same on distributions as like DigitalOcean is in VPS. I'm an Arch Linux desktop user and like how it is in servers.

I and some contacts will leave DigitalOcean if you finally deprecate it. We are working with one year old Kernel and don't said anything...

DigitalOcean isn't in the right direction with this change.

Oh no – this would be a great shame. +1 for keeping it.

Please, don't do that.

I'm against this decision too, DigitalOcean must keep Arch Linux as standard base distribution.

Would love an official response about this.

I switched from another host about a month ago (two Arch Linux machines and a bunch of domains), because DigitalOceans's pricing was desirable for my needs.

I've been happy with the service so far, but will leave DigitalOcean if I can't run Arch Linux.

It only says depreciated, not gotten rid of. They mean two different things.

I came here because Arch Linux was available. Maybe I'll leave if you delete it.

I vote for maintain Arch Linux too, please do not remove it.

+1 for archlinux. It was one of the main reasons for switching to DO besides the wonderful control panel.

Please keep ARCH LINUX! Do not remove it!!

+1 for archlinux.

+1 ARCH

+1 for Arch Linux

Please keep Linux Arch. Arch and DO created for each other.

Arch is the best :(

Another +1 for keeping Arch images -- they are the main reason I came to DO.

+1 for keep Arch Linux

Can't believe you guys deprecating this great distro, that's the big reason I love DO. Please don't do it, and make effort to support it.

Just another reason not to use DigitalOcean

NO. I can't believe it! I'm currently working furiously on my Ansible playbooks getting ready to deploy.. Oh the shame!
Can you guys suggest a different cheap provider with Arch support?

+1 For Arch.
DO, Please consider different approach than deprecating, such as:
"Arch build is not up to date, you are on your on"

Yeah I come to Digital Ocean because of ArchLinux. I prefer rolling releases, rather than old code and attempting to keep a server from being hacked from past failures.

I guess they will remove the choice to make droplets (images) , or the choice in latest vm-kernels.

I vouch for keeping ArchLinux but would find it acceptable if kernel updates were less often to make admin work at Digital Ocean easier.

The only problem I find with Arch is its lack of support for official MySQL. It really hurts the adoption of this distribution as a server.

Really sad to find out Arch Linux will not be supported anymore. For me this was the reason to go with Digital Ocean.

Dropping support will mean I will have to move away to another hosting company.

I really liked your service, but I will have to say goodbye!

PS. Please reconsider

Vote here to keep Arch Linux on Digital Ocean.

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/5812390-keep-arch-linux-on-digitalocean

It is a great distribution. And the more knowledgeable and skilled you are the better it is. With those Arch makes a fantastic VPS. I have one now for a year. It's a blistering, lean mean server machine. It's a shame to take it away from knowledgeable and skilled users who can utilize what Arch offers to its fullest. Even lacking kernel updates. I'll mention kexec-tools to address that issue but use with caution and read through the installation or you will break your droplet.

The problem is that Arch users being in the minority, leaving DO actually furthers their aim. As, Bye! See yah! So that won't achieve anything but tidy up things for DO.

What I would suggest to Arch users and DO is to reach out to each other. Why can't Arch users help maintain Arch on DO? I'm sure they'd be quite willing to do that? And I have no doubt they have the ability. Give them a droplet upgrade for their time and effort? I'll excuse myself from that, it isn't self-interest in suggesting this. I don't have them time. So I'll go on record, no, I won't accept anything in exchange. But I really do not see with DO prominently displaying "Now Hiring" that a way could not be found to make use of the ability that exists within the Arch community to resolve this to everyone's satisfaction?

Dee,

please excuse any typos!

I would certainly be willing to help with that.

If arch support is dropped I would probably have to move to another provider for quite a large amount of droplets, which would suck since I had written load balancing tools around the DO API.

Hi Digital Ocean,
You are a great company, I've been happy with your service so far but this news shock me. Archlinux is the whole reason I'm using DO. The technical simplicity and the modular design of archlinux should be at least beneficial to solve maintainability problems. Reach out the arch community. Even if it is a rolling distro, stable images are posible to mantain.

Please reconsider this decision, I'm confident that an appropiate solution can be found for your bleeding edge/forward thinking customers!

Will this mean eventually Arch Droplets are no longer supported or will you keep helping Arch Linux users? Is the Kernel not updated anymore?

Arch is also the reason I went for DO, guess we are too small a minority. Anybody any suggestions for other providers? Here in the Netherlands you can use https://www.transip.nl/ with Arch Linux, they are only a little more expensive (around 6 euro's (inc tax.)) They offer a vast amount of options, even Gentoo, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Arch was my main reason for going with DO. If Arch goes, so will I.

Do not deprecate Arch Linux...

+1 - I will leave DO if there is no Arch.

Hi

Another +1 for keep Archlinux

Keep Arch!
You will lose me if you drop Arch.