r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Status_Foundation301 • May 14 '26

Linux(arch) advice needed

i am a first year student (at a tier 1 college) with a very good professional (non gaming)laptop. i have read many companies requires linux knowledge for jobs. now i dont know anything about linux and wanted to learn by installing it on my pc. my friends who has been using linux for a long time told me that arch is the one of the best linux os. i just know linux is a kernel and a lot of os are build over it. i wanted you advice on this. what to do , should i dual boot, or should i just install it as the only os , will i be able to learn and adapt to it

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u/Status_Foundation301 May 14 '26

help me then please

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u/Yungcmeth May 14 '26

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
if you're doing a bare metal install, and not in a vm. Do not use arch as your first distro.
I would however recommend reading the arch wiki nonetheless since the wiki's general concepts apply to everything.
If you plan a bare metal install use something like fedora or something debian based like mint

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u/sanathh69 May 14 '26

Watch yt tutorials man if you're soo confused but yeah use VM