stolen from linux memes at Deltachat
Arch wasn't my first distro but it was my first daily driver. Found it easier than both mint and Ubuntu personally.
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Is this from 2010?
This is more or less my experience with it. My noob-ass just can't handle even EndeavorOS.
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I've used Ubuntu for many years, it is a good start for beginners. Although my new recommendations is Mint.
Well, I eventually got bored of Arch and installed Gentoo this summer. I enjoyed it 😎.
PS. I wish there was a Gentoo emoji.
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Use endeavour if you're new
Basically, most of the points there fall into some of 3 categories:
- Your hardware is crap:
- WiFi not working;
- Nvidia failed;
- You ability to read/follow simple instructions is crap:
- WiFi not working;
- Messed up installation;
- Nvidia failed;
- No answer in the wiki;
- Lies/outdated:
- Updater broke system;
- Troubleshoot everything;
- No answer in the wiki;
About 3, idk what's going on with my system, but sometimes after a big yay update, the kde login fails (something about the plasma environment failing to boot or idk I have not debugged it correctly yet), then after a reboot systemd-boot fails to load it and the efi entry dissapears. I'm forced to arch-chroot and reinstall the bootctl. After doing so, sometimes I have to do it again and other times it logs correctly.
Again, not debugged it correctly but it's not like I did any kind of weird change to any config, just installed some flatpaks, some steam games, and lutris for League, which in the end is basically wine, and a yay update provoking this behaviour is pretty bad.
I've had this happen. I never did figure it out, personally. I distro hopped a bit and eventually ended up back on Arch and it didn't happen again, so I guess it was a bugged install?
Journalctl might be a great friend here.
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Only people with time to lose use Arch.
Normally I have the valet bring the PC around but I let him go early today 'cause it's his birthday.
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The one and only time I said "oh hell naw" to a distro install. Mid install.
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Don't know what people have? The last time wifi didnt work out of the box for me was like 2010
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I'm wondering why "I use Funtoo btw" didn't become a meme, and arch did. Gentoo is objectively better at letting the user customise everything compared to arch
I'm pretty sure it's because less people use it. They make fun of Gentoo taking longer to compile stuff on install/update, but that's pretty fast nowadays. What really takes up time is making all the choices. I remember hours of selecting obscure kernel options and choosing use flags "what is ncurses? Do i need ncurses? What is sdl? Do i need sdl? ..." I mostly use Ubuntu now, because I got no more time for that.
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Currently on second day of troubleshooting installation. (Hopefully) 5 days to go till I finally get to boot