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As a capable but lazy user, how much would switching to Arch frustrate me? (lemmy.ml)
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I know my way around a command line. I work in IT, but when it comes to my personal fun time more often than not I'm quite lazy. I use windows a lot because just plugging in anything or installing any game and it just working is great.

But support for windows 10 is ending and I should probably switch sonner rather than later, so I'm wondering if Arch would be a good pick for me? For reference, I mostly game and do Godot stuff in my free time.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just have a look at EndeavourOS which is Arch with sane pre-installed stuff. Have been using it for a year without problem. Am also lazy :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm like OP, can find my way around things but am lazy. I second this recommendation, but I just had a negative experience on it die to laziness. Got lazy around updates, let them pile up to 600 pending updates, ran them all at once and my laptop just became unresponsive. Naturally, I forced its shutdown like a caveman and had to spend the following 6 hours recovering my partition. The nice thing is that endeavour at least has some nice commands to deal with just this kind of situation. The not so nice thing is that I was lazy about looking shit up, hence the 6 hours. The command that saved me was "reinstall-kernels", fixed my systemd-boot in an instant and fixed whatever other mess I had caused.

So yeah, it can be frustrating sometimes. Especially if you're lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

FYI Plasma Wayland doesn’t start with SDDM, you have to edit ~/.bash_profile and remove the “startx” line (or comment it out)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Arch has an installer, EndeavourOS is pointless. also mkinitcpio > dracut, you don't need a firewall, paru > yay. just use Arch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nice opinion you got there.