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[–] max641@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Moved from Fedora > Arch > Manjaro > Fedora > Debian. I consider Arch for learning purposes. For troubleshooting / recoveries , that knowledge will be a great help.

[–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My lifecycle was roughly Gentoo, Mandrake, SUSE, Debian (sid), Arch, Vector, Arch, Debian (testing), Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Arch, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, and finally Debian (stable).

I used to like to mess around with the newest shiniest software but now I just want it to not be broken.

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[–] java@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Is this from 2010?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] glennglog22@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (15 children)

This is more or less my experience with it. My noob-ass just can't handle even EndeavorOS.

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[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Basically, most of the points there fall into some of 3 categories:

  1. Your hardware is crap:
  • WiFi not working;
  • Nvidia failed;
  1. You ability to read/follow simple instructions is crap:
  • WiFi not working;
  • Messed up installation;
  • Nvidia failed;
  • No answer in the wiki;
  1. Lies/outdated:
  • Updater broke system;
  • Troubleshoot everything;
  • No answer in the wiki;
[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

About 3, idk what's going on with my system, but sometimes after a big yay update, the kde login fails (something about the plasma environment failing to boot or idk I have not debugged it correctly yet), then after a reboot systemd-boot fails to load it and the efi entry dissapears. I'm forced to arch-chroot and reinstall the bootctl. After doing so, sometimes I have to do it again and other times it logs correctly.

Again, not debugged it correctly but it's not like I did any kind of weird change to any config, just installed some flatpaks, some steam games, and lutris for League, which in the end is basically wine, and a yay update provoking this behaviour is pretty bad.

[–] abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've had this happen. I never did figure it out, personally. I distro hopped a bit and eventually ended up back on Arch and it didn't happen again, so I guess it was a bugged install?

Journalctl might be a great friend here.

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[–] KseniyaK@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, I eventually got bored of Arch and installed Gentoo this summer. I enjoyed it 😎.

PS. I wish there was a Gentoo emoji.

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[–] Lulzagna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Use endeavour if you're new

[–] Laborer2125@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

I've used Ubuntu for many years, it is a good start for beginners. Although my new recommendations is Mint.

[–] SrTobi@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't know what people have? The last time wifi didnt work out of the box for me was like 2010

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[–] imgel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only people with time to lose use Arch.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i disagree, aur save big time

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you have distrobox set up with an arch container, you have access to the aur no matter what distro ypu're running.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"i use "
sets up arch inside some other distro just for aur
run aur program inside arch
"i use "

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Normally I have the valet bring the PC around but I let him go early today 'cause it's his birthday.

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[–] ExfilBravo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one and only time I said "oh hell naw" to a distro install. Mid install.

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm wondering why "I use Funtoo btw" didn't become a meme, and arch did. Gentoo is objectively better at letting the user customise everything compared to arch

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure it's because less people use it. They make fun of Gentoo taking longer to compile stuff on install/update, but that's pretty fast nowadays. What really takes up time is making all the choices. I remember hours of selecting obscure kernel options and choosing use flags "what is ncurses? Do i need ncurses? What is sdl? Do i need sdl? ..." I mostly use Ubuntu now, because I got no more time for that.

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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Currently on second day of troubleshooting installation. (Hopefully) 5 days to go till I finally get to boot

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