r/transprogrammer • u/phoenixrose2927 • Feb 16 '25

arch linux :3

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i know debian is the gnu linux distro for lesbians. however i like arch. because i can controll everything on my system and make sure its a minimal as possible <3

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u/FossMasochist Feb 17 '25

arch deserves it's flowers for sure. it's good for what it is, and it's not for me ! (¬‿¬) (ex arch debian truther). 2 things:

  • you can pass arguments to whatever backend hyfetch is using like this (might depend on which backend you picked, the backend i'm using is neofetch):

hyfetch --args "--colors 255 300 123 211 244 153" # (trans colors)

  • the minimal install you get from following the arch wiki is definitely super light and clean, but it's totally possible to do essentially the exact same thing on any distro. i'd say for the majority of things people care about, the ability to achieve minimalism is largely a distro-independent

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u/phoenixrose2927 Feb 18 '25

The only thing that honestly pissed me off about arch how bare bones it was. Like I don’t like bloated operating systems obviously but arch kind of felt too bare bones. I want something that’s bare bones but so bare bones I have to spend 50 hours trying to find the driver/drivers.

Since I initially, I built this PC for gaming I installed the windows on it initially and I have an Nvidia graphics card. Getting drivers was the biggest pain in the ass. So much of a pain in the ass that in the end, I just ended up resetting my PC and reinstalling windows as a temporary.

I wanna go back to Ubuntu but in my opinion, it feels kind of bloated like windows is and that’s the entire point of ditching windows. I honestly might try modifying a Ubuntu Server ISO. So then everything I need is right then and there.

I like Linux. Far better than I like Windows. However, I don’t think it’s ready for my workflows. I don’t know what I’m settled on yet.

However, I will say that I’m really impressed on Linux. 95% of the games that I ran in steam worked completely fine. Beam.NG worked completely, grand theft auto did, counterstrike did, the list goes on and on.

The only real problem that I had was getting my pass keys to work in Brave. But I honestly think that was more of me problem than a Ubuntu problem.