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    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

    For me vanilla Arch is the easiest to use and diagnosed, I tried the switch to other distros when the malwares fiasco broke out but I feel like I'm using Linux for the first time again, I can't understand anything about the os I'm using what command I have to use to install softwares after figured it out half of my software is not in the repo so I have to compile it like a cave man and don't get me started on where are all of my config files is.

    [–] orenj@leminal.space 1 points 6 days ago

    Me

    [–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

    Hey, it can work, I've installed Mint for my father. Thrown him in head first!

    And I'm not sure if he realized he's not running Windows anymore.

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    Me after 3 months of using PopOS 5 years ago.

    [–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Arch taught me how to fuck my computer and now its my main squeeze.

    [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Unironically, I don’t get how anyone lives with something like Arch.

    Do you guys have to reinstall the OS every few months? How do you deal with the accumulation of crap and weird settings over years?

    I tried Fedora and I found even that was annoying because you’ve got 50 different serviced and servicectl things to manage, which all have their own implicitly managed state, and some require committing changes through custom CLIs to update them (I have more than once forgot to push my boot settings — whatever that’s called, I’m a noob and was following guides).

    I don’t think I can go back from NixOS and immutable distros. I really like that it’s hard to forget my firewall has an open port for service xyz, because the port is defined in a nix file with the service configuration.

    I’m not saying the arch way or standard Linux way is wrong, not at all. It’s just incredibly not something I enjoy and it makes me feel not confident about the state of my computer.

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    [–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    'Cause no other computer will let you touch it, let alone sudo it.

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    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Archwiki and archinstall are amazing

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    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Some windows refugees do start with arch, btw.

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    [–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

    Around 3 years ago I switched to Arch from Ubuntu(22.04) after 2-3 months of being a new user to Linux because I read that Arch was one of the best distros for setting up a custom system for tiling window managers. I was already testing i3wm on Ubuntu and I was ready to make i3wm my main desktop, so decided to take the Arch route. It really did feel like a jump into the dark even though I wasn't completely new.

    For a moment I hated not knowing anything but after a few bruises I ended up learning enough things to be comfortable, and learning other non Linux topics by inertia. It was totally worth it, although I would tell my younger self to take it much slower.

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