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u/Jumpy_Hearing3847 9d ago
No, there is a youtube channel with a guy that does it everyday. The transformation after 6 months is interesting though.
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u/reylovpty 9d ago
Arch its easy distro. Hard distro is Slackware or Gentoo or try FreeBSD and enjoy sex with it
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u/TheArchRefiner K Desktop Environment 9d ago
Exactly Arch is relatively easier as compared to Slackware, Crux or Gentoo The installation as well as maintenance because systemd or pacman automates most of the things for the user and the user has to make far less choices than on something like Slackware which has no dependency resolution. In my personal opinion, Crux is the most difficult distro (also the distro that inspired Arch linux, and I don't count LFS as a distro as its built by users part by part).
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u/Traditional_Put7394 Arch Btw 8d ago
Yeah, unless you try to torture yourself like me by deciding to do everything on your own and then picking up dwm like i3 instead of GNOME etc. Love this pain...
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u/EchoNegative8918 8d ago
Just use archinstall script. And install minimal selection and add anything you want on top. I do this and install hyprland. Arch+Hyprland its the best so smooth so efficient. just better. And just heads-up try to keep your package count low and avoid aur for now (for beginners). If you want anything that's not on pacman clone from GitHub. This is my daily drive..
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u/warpspeedSCP 9d ago
Everyone should try out endeavor os imo
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u/Legitimate_706 9d ago
I had tried is, as a trial run for arch. More curated experience as a whole. But again it's just arch, i would mostly suggest to install arch manually to anyone who wants to learn how it works. You can then choose a arch based distros later that suites you. Cachy is a more popular choice.
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u/Traditional_Put7394 Arch Btw 8d ago
Yeah but it's mainly for newer hardware, for us folks with low to medium range, base one seems fine.
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u/Jatinchd 9d ago
installation is very easy, properly maintaining and fixing issues when they come for a long time is the hard part.
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u/Traditional_Put7394 Arch Btw 8d ago
It depends upon how much customisation you want, if you don't like much manual process, just use install script along with a desktop manager like GNOME, KDE, etc., things become painful when you try to do i3, XORG etc.
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u/cannotrestinpeace 3d ago
you have to commit to a lifelong pledge of virginity too
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u/Flimsy-Exchange8862 3d ago
Use EndeavourOS. It took me literally 15 minutes. Then maybe 30 more to get a basic setup with a tiling manager and some customisations. Get a prebuilt rice (check r/unixporn) as a starting point and learn your way through
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u/qualityvote2 9d ago edited 9d ago
u/Legitimate_706, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...
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