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.

  • mynamesnotrick
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    6 months ago

    I just switched over today just to see what its all about. I’ve been using linux as my only OS for about a year now. Been on ubuntu, pop, fedora, etc… Sysadmin by trade. I am a linux novice I’d say. Not a noob, but not an expert. Still have a lot of issues just figuring out startup/service stuff, etc…

    Followed this guide: https://gist.github.com/mjnaderi/28264ce68f87f52f2cabb823a503e673 (I wanted my drive encrytped).

    I am up and running and basically back to where I was on fedora 40. I was doing this mainly to always be on the latest. Having to learn pacman and yay. I am finding I can get everything running but it’s definitely more involved.

    No regrets just it did take a few hours. Not sure if it was worth it tbh at this point. lol

    If I need to reinstall arch, I’m going to use endeavorOS. The entire time I was setting it up, I was like “why am I doing this?”. I automate everything I can at my job, why am I doing this the old fashion way…

    • Eyck_of_denesle
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      6 months ago

      It was really worth it for me. Having control of what stays and what doesn’t is a big relief for me. I wanted switch away a few times when something broke but nothing was as smooth and curated like my arch linux setup.

      • mynamesnotrickEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I will say a day or two later I am really enjoying it thus far. A bit turned off by the manual install but now I know exactly what is on my system, like you said “curated” and I am really liking yay.

        • Eyck_of_denesle
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          6 months ago

          That’s nice to know. I’m low on storage 256gb SSD so minimalism is quite important for me. But you have to be aware that there will be few hiccups especially when you don’t update for over a month, so make sure you don’t land into that. Also avoid arch linux discord/reddit unless you need help. They are the most toxic, entitled people you have ever seen.

          • mynamesnotrickEnglish
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            6 months ago

            As I was searching for a few questions I had I ended up on the reddit sub. So unfortunately got exposed already to it… toxic is right! Sheesh. Thank you for the tip about keeping up to date. That was sort of a question I had. I’ll probably just have it on a scheduled task.

            • Eyck_of_denesle
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              6 months ago

              You could search for solutions on reddit but I wouldn’t recommend making a post. You also have arch forum which comes up on Google searches and it most likely has the solution anyways. Lemmy arch instance is pretty chill. Have a nice time mate.