• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      I’ve never had any issues with my Arch install being unpredictable. It has always worked exactly as I expected it to, even though I update it every couple of days.

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        It has always worked exactly as I expected it to

        Just expect it to break, then it will behave as expected taps head

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        9 days ago

        Do you use your computer for things that rely on specific library versions and functionality?

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        9 days ago

        imagine if you update it after 2 weeks. Arch is okay, if you keep backups. otherwise, you are basically playing a russian roulette

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          9 days ago

          I don’t like waiting that long, because sitting for an hour while it recompiles everything that updated is annoying. I like the daily or so updates that only take a couple minutes.

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        9 days ago

        i started learning about linux 4 months ago. Installed Arch with archinstall pretty easily to a VM, it booted up no problem. But you have to manually install the desktop, if you want a gui (who doesn’t lol). But there are many desktops for Arch, the most common ones have pretty good documentation. But if i were you, i’d experiment with some more niche desktop emviroments

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          9 days ago

          I haved used many distros and DEs. my favorites are keyboard driven like i3 and such. For now i use fedora because i needed something to work out of the box. I would like to stay in the terminal.

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          9 days ago

          No need to manually install desktop environments, archinstall also does that (Profile --> Desktop).

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              8 days ago

              You did, probably just didn’t see it ;) It’s been part of it for years, since around 2020 according to GitHub. But to be fair, calling the option “Profile” might not be very intuitive for some people, so it’s easy to miss.

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        9 days ago

        Just use kvm/qemu and install it. When I want to play with detailed setups I install slackware and start configuring/compiling.