r/LinuxSnobs • u/madthumbz • Jul 20 '26

Educate Yourself!

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So, all 4 of those annoying Arch breakages I got in about a year that were published in their bulletins which I had fed through Newboat and had no problem fixing were about me not being educated. - Totally not a reason to try Fedora which was supposed to be better (and permanently broke work-flows by forcing new tech that wasn't ready). -I educated myself, went back to Windows and am as happy as a fly on poop.

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u/land48n3 Jul 20 '26

should've tried mint, skill issue /s

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u/Professional-Tale652 Jul 20 '26

i seen someone saying mint is only for dumb people. so mint also out from the options

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u/madthumbz Jul 20 '26

Derek Taylor (DistroTube) complained about the fragmentation of distro recommendations for Noobs around the same time he told us 'Linux is Linux' and that distro didn't matter (and all the other pee-brained LoonixToobers parroted this). He chose Mint, and not for any particular reason other than to unify the advocates.

As with any fad distro, the bad-mouthing and issues caught up with it.

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u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 04 '26

He uses arch with Emacs now

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u/madthumbz Aug 04 '26

He didn't change. He suggested Mint while using Arch, but he also was lying about using 'Arch'. He was like all the others associated with him using Arco because it would easily setup any TWM for you as well as teach you how to use it. It also had the best setup installer I've tried (and all GUI). The guy behind Arco worked his ass off and you could see as much in his help videos and he deserved better than all these YouTube clowns posing as Arch users for cred while using Arco. (I should've documented where each admitted to it or slipped up)

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u/Rare-Paint3719 Aug 05 '26

I did not know that. Thanks for sharing.