• addie@feddit.uk
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      4 days ago

      Ah yes, the ‘Arch Linux’ experience. To be fair, your machine boots really really fast when you don’t read the install guide carefully enough and fail to put a network stack on. Valuable learning opportunity.

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          2 days ago

          To be fair, their installation page is excellent, but it does require close reading. Where I’d messed up was the “install essential packages” section, where it just says to “consider installing” stuff which is essential really - firmware, network stack, a text editor. If you’re able to access the internet and adjust configuration files, then you can install everything else you need.

          Their suggested disk partitioning has a gigabyte for efi, which is twice what I’d recommend, and includes a swap partition, which I would not create. A swap file is just as good, and more flexible. Otherwise yeah, if you can install Arch, you can probably do all the Linux maintenance you’ll ever need to do, and it’s not that difficult - practise in a VM if you want - and will make you much more skilled and confident.

          https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

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      3 days ago

      The amount of times I’ve pulled the trigger only to have to delve into forms and git repos trying to find a driver.

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      3 days ago

      This was Zorin for me.

      Dual screen worked without issue on live USB. Installed on metal and dual screen no longer worked…

      Never got it figured out. I just moved to a different distro.