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So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

I’m a little bit underwhelmed, I thought that based off the fact so many people seem to make using this distro their personality I expected… well, more I guess?

Once the basic stuff is set-up, like wifi, a few basic packages, a desktop environment/window manager, and a bit of desktop environment and terminal customisation, then that’s it. Nothing special, just a Linux distribution with less default programs and occasionally having to look up how to install a hardware driver or something if you need to use bluetooth for the first time or something like that.

Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

What exactly is it that people obsess over? The desktop environment and terminal customisation? Setting up NetworkManager with nmcli? Using Vim to edit a .conf file?

AndreTelevise ,

Most who use Arch prefer to use a customized tiling window manager instead of a desktop environment. I tried using i3, and I do understand tiling WMs, but they’re not really for me and I won’t be able to do a crazy design out of them.

matinmollapur ,
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    jeena ,
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    Sorry, somehow you sound like a llm.

    AnnaFrankfurter ,

    Arch isn’t cool anymore you should switch to gentoo

    fermuch ,
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    Gentoo isn’t cool anymore. You should switch to funtoo, so you can have fun too!

    JackbyDev ,

    How do you like it? I’ve been trying to get people’s opinions on it but haven’t found any users yet.

    fermuch ,
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    It is a lot of fun! Right now I’m back to arch, since I don’t have a lot of time, but funtoo does right those older decisions in gentoo which do not make sense in these day and age. And the updates are fast, really fast, since they use git!

    The downside is the docs aren’t as good. Not even close. The wiki for gentoo is a great source of information.

    JackbyDev ,

    Actually looks like Funtoo got discontinued a week ago lol talk about timing

    fermuch ,
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    I blame capitalism

    ProgrammingSocks ,

    Usually a safe bet

    Andromxda ,
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    Absolutely!

    xycu ,

    Funtoo is dead after this month

    …funtoo.org/…/5182-all-good-things-must-come-to-a…

    JackbyDev ,

    Ope 💀

    Andromxda ,
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    Isn’t it deprecated?

    fermuch ,
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    Yep, ded. So sad.

    Lemmchen , (edited )
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    You misspelled Linux from Scratch.

    superkret , (edited )

    The cool kids are going back to Slackware.
    When you’ve set that up correctly on modern hardware and got Gnome to run, it’s a real achievement.

    yboutros ,
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    Meanwhile: NixOS

    https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/b9fe1a76-de1a-4ae7-b080-dc0f51661342.gif

    z00s ,

    Check your neck for extra beard hairs, or your legs for knee high socks

    Valmond ,

    Knee high socks are for any Linux flavour 💖

    TheGrandNagus ,

    Damn right 💙

    Valmond ,

    Hell yeah! 💖💖💖

    aks ,
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    I have both

    z00s ,

    Ooh, a Gentoo user!

    ReakDuck ,

    I can only use Arch, because I know how I set it up.

    Preinstalled distros, even arch based seem overwhelming to me nowadays. I just prefer to set up Arch Linux myself so I know what minimal steps I did and what package I have

    01011 , (edited )

    Arch is too easy to set up nowadays for it to be a “thing”.

    Maybe 15 years ago when the process was slightly more complicated but even then it’s always been paint by numbers.

    Even Gentoo isn’t that difficult, just time consuming.

    possiblylinux127 ,

    Now use Gentoo

    x00z ,
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    Just do ./install_arch.sh

    rozodru ,
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    personally I’m addicted to AUR. I just like going down the rabbit hole on there and seeing what people have.

    fin ,

    You forgot one thing: “I use Arch BTW!”

    BCsven ,

    Before the install script, i setup arch manually and added the gnome package that bringd DE and all the good Gnome stuff with it. it was then just the same as any other Gnome DE really. People taut the AUR, but OpenSUSE has same with their software.opensuse.org where packages maintained as experimental or community can be accessed (or by adding OPI). Since OpenSUSE had built in snapshotting, rollback and GUI admin (plus curation to do cleanups and maintemamce already OOTB) I uninstalled Arch. The ArchWiki though, that thing is a masterpiece

    callyral ,
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    If you want a challenge that may or may not be worth it, try configuring NixOS. And I mean really get into it, try to configure everything using Nix. It’s very time consuming but not boring, each configuration varies person to person (i.e the way you organize it) so it can be quite fun if you have the time.

    Also nixpkgs (what Nix and NixOS use) has like, all the packages

    dino ,

    troll detector noisy

    dewritochan ,

    using vim to edit a .conf file

    that’s the nixos people

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