So im giving into the meme. about to install arch linux. I'm guessing that I put it on a bootable usb and then just type in a bunch of commands depending on what I want to install?
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Arch BTW
Noah Johnson
Benjamin Turner
Practice on a VM first, so you don't fuck yourself
Tyler Walker
what if all i want to do is log in and take a screenfetch?
Dylan Gutierrez
are there any good guides to follow? I have my laptop open and the USB flashed. I really just want to do this one time. Then I may try to install some video games on it for fun...
Charles Jenkins
the wiki is good, if you cant understand it use this
arcolinuxd.com
Joshua Ross
cool I'm going in. I will report back
Tyler Harris
lmfao, just follow the fucking instructions on the wiki. what is there to practice for following a sequence that is clearly described to you.
Luke Ortiz
ive been watching luke smith. and I agree with him that you shouldnt try to replace windows with linux. However, is there any email application like outlook that will sync all my mailboxes and/or calendar?
Brandon Howard
anyway I will keep this open and report back if i need more tech support thanks fellas! XDDDDD
Kevin Sanders
I wouldnt replace it entirely, but I'd go full Linux for day to day causal pc use. If you're mostly web browsing, using media players, text editing etc, then certain Linux distros make for a fantastic main OS. It'll do all of that just as well as windows without any of the aggregious windows telemetry, security issues and general lack of control you have over what windows 10 does
But if you're in school, doing work that requires high compatibility with a number of programs, or playing games then you need something with windows on hand. Not that you can't work in Linux, but if you're using a lot of proporatery software then using windows/osx clears up a lot of headaches
Jason Bennett
it's called thunderbird and you can try it out on windows or mac first.
Blake King
Tries Arch as first distro.
Oh, the pain . . . the pain!
Ryan Wood
thanks for the feedback. All i know is that people have gotten WoW to work on Arch and I will try doing that while I have time on my main comp over winter break. If I can get other tools working then I will switch it over to my laptop that will be my main laptop for Tutoring work and taking database classes.
Chase King
ArCh BtW
Jacob Wright
Eh for that just format your disk, make filesystems, mount it, install base system, make fstab, set timezone and locale, install grub and screenfetch and you should be done.
Christopher Ortiz
you guys xddd stop xddd
anyway I am like halfway through installing i think. I am setting up the partitions. smooth sailing. were gonna make it boys!
Luis Harris
setting up partitions is secodn thing you had to do installing arch, first is set net connection...
Luke Nelson
ok maybe im retarded then. Also I want my main boot partition to be as much as possible and the swap to be double my ram right?
Jason Brooks
install ubunto and spoof screenfetch
Mason Gray
no, swap should be 4x ram in case you want to hibernate
Mason Martinez
the video im watching said it is controversial. Im not sure if youre memeing me or what but I'll just stick to 2x for now
Liam Turner
If you value your time skip arch.
I used it for 6 months then switched to kubuntu. What took arch 6 months to set up took me a couple of days with kubuntu.
There are good things about arch though. compiling things is easier because headers are part of nearly every package. Also forces you to learn the nitty gritty things about linux. though in hindsight i would have never needed to learn these things if I had skipped arch...
Alexander Torres
I am taking a linux course next semester. I think installing arch will be beneficial to my learning. Anyway I have nothing better to do.. I would be playing vidya
Christian Young
If you have an SSD make it 4x. Fast d'sk access is great for swapping.
Blake Foster
>linux course
Just install gentoo.
Jonathan Morales
this
Noah Davis
I've played wow on arch
the absolute retard proof way of doing it is to install lutris and use their script to install wow
practically hands free, just make sure you install wine (and the 32bit libraries) before you use the script
Jose Rogers
He needs to edit /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf to include the line
vm.swappiness=80
to actually reap the benefits though.
Jace Flores
you guys are really trying to break his ssd aren't you?
for shame
Gabriel Reyes
>screenfetch
how do i upload a pic?
should i install a desktop first?
Austin Gomez
Well you could use a text browser but yeah I'd install a desktop first.
Adrian Brown
fuck yeah good luck
Hunter Ross
pacman -Ss [search text]
replace search text with software you are loooking for
Cameron Wright
>not using calDAV paired with a office program than includes both mail and calendar
John Sanders
Update:
Got a desktop environment installed now how do I get the display settings to at least come up
Michael Gutierrez
Uh maybe try to search ”{DE ur using} display settings"
Or better yet install i3 and get to experience the full potential of Linux. I switched from Windows to Manjaro xfce to arch with i3 and I'll never go back. Manjaro was decent but it just felt like a shitty Windows version. I3 will help you discover Linux in all its Glory
Adrian Rogers
Congrats. Google your laptop model and Arch Linux, somebody else might have made notes.
Follow the install guide and good luck. Arch is comfy, but expect to put in a lot of time to get to that.
Noah Sullivan
When you eventually need the AUR, get 'yay'
computingforgeeks.com
You're welcome
Christian Lopez
am i doin this right?
Xavier Hernandez
What's the point of these AUR managers if you can just git clone the package, and makepkg -si? You get to look at the PKGBUILD that way too.
Parker Rivera
Angel Rodriguez
you're on your way!
get gnome-tweaks if you don't have it already, so you can get extensions like pic related
Bentley James
They simplify the process and can do neat things like auto-removing build deps after install, among other things
Logan Garcia
Imagine having to download extensions for shit that comes with every sane DE by default.
Alexander Fisher
Not gonna lie, it's annoying.
They package a software download gui that has all the extensions, at least. They're also on the arch packages/aur
Hunter Clark
imagine not being able to appreciate someones hobby
Logan Ross
Luke appreciates it.
Robert Wright
Friendly reminder that archfags are just brainlets who couldnt install gentoo
Dylan Thompson
Reminder gentoocucks are just fags that couldn't LFS
Carter Thomas
Reminder that I use arch btw
Eli Walker
2 things:
how do i make it so clicking settings actually does something. and how do i change the font on this computer?
Brandon Bell
Your hobby is to jump through hoops because the GNOME devs are sucking jenkem?
Enjoy, I guess.
I actually liked GNOME before 3, these days I use Plasma.
Jose Price
I run Funtoo on my computers that aren't laptops.
Here's your (You).
James Harris
just use LARBS
Carter Rogers
use the setfont command
Jordan Butler
as in type setfont into terminal? it didnt return anything.
I am having trouble getting sound to work now on the root user. I think gnome-tweaks broke it
Easton Ward
Why would your root user need to use sound anyway?
Just what kind of niggardry are you putting your system through?
Leo Butler
>I'm guessing that I put it on a bootable usb and then just type in a bunch of commands depending on what I want to install?
Exactly. Just read the wiki, it's described there.
It's also not particularly hard to do.
Cooper Thomas
>>I am having trouble getting sound to work now on the root user
>sound
>root user
Anthony Miller
Arch is pointless. Have fun, you're going to learn to follow instructions closely in a wiki. That's what you'll get out of the experience.
Justin Cooper
You'd be shocked how rare a skill RTFM is.
Caleb Bailey
It's pretty easy to install arch.
Just put in the usb, open wiki on phone and follow directions.
For me the hard part wasn't installation, but not breaking it after a while, because I used to try and tweak it a lot, until eventually I did something I wasn't supposed to.
Luis Nguyen
AUR helpers ask if you want to change the PKGBUILD anyway