I'm a normie who is very busy and doesn't have a lot of time on his hands. However I would like to try Arch. Should I install it and try it out or is there too much time commitment for somebody with a job and social life to dedicate to?
I'm a normie who is very busy and doesn't have a lot of time on his hands. However I would like to try Arch...
Henry Parker
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James Johnson
Manjaro
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Christian Moore
just use mint
Adam Jackson
way too much time, even if you find a perfect guide for your ideal setup and preferences, you'd still be setting yourself up to spending long hours troubleshooting some stupid shit after an update. updates fucking up your system are not a meme.
Ryder Cox
the devs break stuff then post on the website telling users to do manual fixes
Hunter King
Pretty much this.
I used Arch for 2-3 months on work laptop. Worked great until an update borked it. Went back to mint xfce. That was 2-3 years ago.
Aaron Flores
if anything large breaks, you can be sure to at least find it on arch page. installing it doesn't take very much time unless you have never used Linux before. People who tell you that Arch constantly breaks are memeing and likely blindly install outdated packages from the AUR
Kayden Peterson
Only the initial install and configuration takes time. Backup configs once you make them and it's a once in a lifetime task.
Ryder Myers
>normie
>very busy
nigger don't pretend that normal users are interested in fucking around with config files
Adrian Powell
default configs are enough and are easy to adjust if you use a decent DE
Joshua Perry
this
install it and have a life
Ryder Lopez
Asher Nguyen
sourceforge.net
Here, an installer for vanilla Arch.
Jayden Robinson
install gentoo
Hunter Howard
Install void linux and good riddance to systemd
Nathan Russell
good riddance to packages and updates
Jayden Roberts
It's a meme distro that's only good for educational purposes. It's not the machine for productiv work unless you're a programmer or some shit. A computer is a tool not a toy.
Isaiah James
slackware will never break down from updates
Mason Myers
You could always use a rpm or deb based distro, lern to build you're own packages and let github/gitlab be you're AUR.
Julian Morales
Pros and cons of Mint vs Manjaro?
Owen Foster
Mint is an Ubuntu LTS with Cinnamon running. Manjaro is Arch with Cinnamon running.
Jordan Cruz
>No time
>I-install S-slackware
Lucas Howard
>Manjaro is Arch with Cinnamon running.
Manjaro comes with a choice of all the big desktop environments.
Jason Carter
I've got 5 Arch machines, once it's installed it takes no more time to maintain than any other Linux.Ignore the tards crying about breakage.Rolling releases are no less stable than anything else. And before the naysayers start slinging shit,I challenge anyone here to find one LTS release of any distro that has an empty bug report.
Jaxson Gray
been running arch on my laptop for well over 2 years now, stop bloating up your systems with crap and you won't have problems.
Also, update frequently, it helps..
Joshua Jones
>I'm a normie who is very busy and doesn't have a lot of time on his hands
No you're a lying piece of shit
>Should I install it and try it out or is there too much time commitment for somebody with a job and social life to dedicate to?
Again you lying piece of filth, installing Arch doesn't take more than 20 minutes, even if you're fucking Putin himself, you can install and setup the whole thing in less than an hour
but you won't, you low IQ lying piece of shit
Lincoln Rivera
>I'm a normie who is very busy and doesn't have a lot of time on his hands. However I would like to try Arch
... why?
even Stallman admits he cant install linux, he lets others do it for him. Linus Torvals uses a normie distro.
why the FUCK would want to use arch? it requires CONSTANT babysitting, it's a hobby-OS if you have way too much time.
I just cant wrap my head around as to why someone would want this..
Tyler Ramirez
This is neat, but it's always a good idea to follow the wiki, a lot of information can become outdated rather quickly.
Elijah Wright
If you like configuring things, you should definitely install it. They meme it a lot, but things really don't break that often and when things break, they get fixed quickly because of the active user community. For example about 2-3 years ago, they broke bumblebee (NVIDIA's GPU switching stuff), but it was fixed within a day. Since then nothing broke in my system.
However, I gave up Arch for various reasons, because you need to actually set up very trivial things as well, and some of those things are hard to find out because you just take them granted when you use other operating systems. Some sound and font settings are in this category. Finding out the specific thing you're looking for can sometimes be frustrating.
In general I liked my Arch experience quite a lot, basically the hopping sequence I followed was
CentOS -> Fedora -> Antergos -> Arch -> Fedora -> W10 (I have to work with stuff that only works on Windows) and among these, the least problematic was Arch. Most convenient to setup was Fedora.
Lucas Harris
>Linus Torvals uses a normie distro.
Which distro is he using now? The last I heard was Fedora, but I'm not sure if he still uses it.
Noah Gonzalez
Anything can be a toy you cuck. You can play with a hammer even though it's a tool. Go use Wangblows or some shit...
Jaxon Evans
You're a tool.
Wyatt Nelson
How about you stop wasting your time on Jow Forums and find out yourself?
Justin Roberts
yes you should ! its more reliable than any other distro and you make your system the way you want its like gentoo but it installs under an hour
Nolan Foster
If you just want to try it out then no problem, just install it on a VM and see how you like it.
I have Arch Linux on an old laptop, it's alright I guess. But there was one time when I updated and it just died and had to boot from livecd to fix it