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Today i installed arch linux for the first time (pawb.social)

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[–] KindredAffiliate@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is "fun". Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don't enable the testing repo.

Also pacman is the fastest package manager I've ever used.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.

I hope you enabled parallel downloads, that makes it fast as fuck.

[–] superkret@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

It's enabled by default now.

[–] woof7939@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

Updates go brrrrrr

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

Apt is very quick as well (with the nala frontend), no complaints there. I've been running Arch for the past 5 years and recently switched to Debian Stable. The "grub event" was certainly notable, but otherwise I don't think Arch is really that unstable or gimmicky. Arch itself is a very solid and dependable platform - the reason I decided to move is because I really don't need the bleeding edge packages from other projects anymore. With Flatpaks and all the rest of the /home-based package managers that are around now, I can keep a stable base system and install a couple bleeding edge packages that I want, instead of being forced to run my entire system as bleeding edge (do my printer drivers really need to make me bleed?).

Overall, I'd say the Arch experience is as high quality as the Debian experience, they just target different usecases. Neither of them is better, it's just up to the user how bloody they want their system to be.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Btrfs would beg to differ.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it really not that stable? I'm trying to switch from ext4 because of the built-in compression

[–] a_statistician@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using it with Ubuntu and Arch with no issues for a couple of years, so ...?

[–] SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just lost a raid 0 array for what seems like no reason, all I even had to do was reformat and both drives are working again. It's fortunate I only use them for my steam library.

That being said I have an Ubuntu machine that's been running 4 drives in RAID 5 for like 5 years so.... Your mileage may vary?

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I will stick to static partitions, I am aware btrfs and RAID don't mix well

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you heard of our lord and saviour nixOS?

[–] SpicyTofuSoup@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Somehow mkinitcpio broke my initramfs the other day when I installed the latest microcode updates. Took me like an hour to debug the issue and boot from the fallback 😑. That’s the first time I’ve had an issue like that though. I’ve been using arch for a few years now.