• kautau@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Honestly reproducible builds climaxes seems like a good thing. Though I guess you are only gooning while it’s rebuilding. And who knows how flakes will apply to this, I’m gonna guess a bunch of people with big sock collections will have bigger opinions than I do

          • kautau@lemmy.world
            4·
            18 hours ago

            Lol i guess it’s based on the number of n’s, but I’ve always seen it in the context of attraction / climax. That being said, your interpretation seems more accurate, but I guess that’s the beauty of the internet, or art in general. One man’s Creation of Adam is a religious painting, another is the birth of intelligence by painting a brain

    • dil@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 day ago

      Were you getting freezes? I’m stuck on an older kernel for stability, same issue on mint and endeavour (arch) tho. My problem isn’t exclusive to cachyos, yours may be tho

      • Beyonder_Extreme@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 hours ago

        For the first few weeks, everything was fine, and it didn’t freeze once. But Brave used to crash frequently, which was annoying, so I uninstalled it and switched to Librewolf. However, some sites weren’t working properly with the Firefox engine, so after a few weeks, I re-downloaded Brave as a secondary browser. Unfortunately, after that, whenever I opened Brave, my PC started freezing, and the only solution was to force shut it down by holding the power button. I restored a snapshot and uninstalled Brave, but the problem continued.

        • dil@lemmy.zip
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I had a similar issue, I thought it was different apps because it seemed to coincide with them, turned out its a wider amd kernel issue for me, all the new ones past 6.12.36-2 LTS, I’ve had to reinstall it from cache every update

  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    Well, I was thinking of moving to Linux full-time anyway now that my Windows install is obsolete. Any reason to avoid this distro? Past experience is with Ubuntu, Gentoo, and SuSE. I mostly game.

    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
      46·
      1 day ago

      Serious answer? It’s a meme distro seemingly maintained by a single person, so the odds of the project being abandoned and you having to migrate in the very near future are extremely large. Better to stick to one of the bigger distros unless you have good reasons to choose a smaller one specifically.

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 day ago

      Stick with something better known. Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, Ubuntu…If you’re just getting into this for the first time, full time, a niche meme distro is not your best choice.

      Linux Mint is best for stability, but will be a bit more “stale” for updates, since it’s based on Ubuntu LTS. It is an incredible distro and is my daily driver for mission critical desktops, like my work PC.

      Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed will both be great non-Arch distros that have fairly recent, yet stable updates.

      Arch is basically the king of rolling, bleeding edge, always on the latest and greatest, but since it’s bleeding edge…you might get cut on occasion.

      Ubuntu is Ubuntu. I don’t like Ubuntu, but it is the defacto “newbie/first timer” distro for a reason. Debian-based, lots of guides, both LTS and non-LTS options, and has variants for practically every major desktop environment out there.

      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’m surprised LMDE almost never gets shoutouts. I’d assume since people don’t like Ubuntu they’d recommend it over Mint.

        • Zink@programming.dev
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Mint takes all the good work that’s been put into Ubuntu and keeps a bunch of that while not including anything Canonical-specific like snaps. Almost all the typical “how do I linux” webpages new users will stumble upon will have instructions that will work for them. And of course there’s a lot of added polish in the Mint distro.

          I also like to point out that, unlike we expect to see with non-free corporate enshittified tech, the fact that Mint has a nice layer of polish, looks like Windows out of the box (talking of the default version with the Cinnamon DE), and installs in like 1/10 the time and clicks as Windows… basically, being friendly on the surface doesn’t mean it is restricted under the hood. Mint doesn’t get weird on me if I have half my monitors covered in terminals, ya know?

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Y’all have some good points. What I’m hearing is “install it on a fresh hard drive, play around, then move on to something more stable.”

    • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      generally speaking its safer to go with larger well known distros as smaller ones tend to die off.

    • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I was a windows only guy most of my computing life, 10 years ago I got sick of it and gave Linux a shot. After trying Ubuntu and hating it I tried ZorinOS and started getting comfortable then switched to Mint.

      I’ve been running Mint exclusively for 9 years on all my machines and I love it. It’s close enough to windows to be intuitive while still letting you use and learn Linux.

    • dil@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 day ago

      better off going cachyos, you can grav nyrarch apps like for customization seperately

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 day ago

      Others commented on nyarch.

      Arch will take several hours to setup. If you want plug and play then avoid it.see comment replies - If you want to commit to it the wiki is quite easy to work through for the install process and post install troubleshooting help is top notch. Also always check the homepage before doing system updates.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
        9·
        1 day ago

        Not true. Archinstall automates much of that, and it’s easier to navigate than the Calamares installer. The process takes less than five minutes of interaction, the rest is just waiting for the packages to sync. Installing Arch manually using arch_pacstrap is an option, but it’s the worse option.

      • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 day ago

        If you follow the official guide, you can install base Arch in 20 minutes tops. Pulling the metapackage for a DE like KDE, Xfce or GNOME is just a single command after that, and at that point you’ve got a perfectly functional desktop. Everything after that is customization. It does not take “several hours” to set up.

        • untorquer@lemmy.world
          1·
          16 hours ago

          I’m speaking for someone with only basic experience with Linux and consider troubleshooting and day 1 customization as part of install.

          Since all the distros OP has experience with are graphical install i stand by my statement.

          You are entirely correct for the case of a highly experienced Linux power user.

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      106·
      1 day ago

      Þe best way to use Arch: pre-installed.

      Alþough, it’s not really true. Þe EndeavorOS installer makes Arch as easy to install as any other distro. Takes someþing out of þe nerd caché of using Arch, but once you know how to do it þe hard way (and, consequently, have þe value of knowing how þings work), it’s just tedious.

      • addie@feddit.uk
        31·
        1 day ago

        If you can’t install Arch from scratch, you probably won’t be able to fix it when it breaks. Protip: don’t run a big update in a different workspace, forget about it, and then hibernate your laptop. That would be bad.

          • addie@feddit.uk
            2·
            16 hours ago

            Not if you get an error from the initramfs saying that it can’t mount the root partition, no. Start from the install media, mount the drives, chroot in, mkinitcpio -P && pacman -Syu and everything was fine again. I wouldn’t like that to be the first introduction to Linux for a newstart, tho - better that they install Mint or something with a few more guard rails.

            • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              I have to say, I haven’t yet booted into a snapshot, but I have efi-snapper (or whatever it’s called) and snapper set up to do the btrfs snapshots and update the EFI menu. It’s all new process; I’ve been using rescue boot media for decades, but I won’ t mind if rescuing becomes as easy as booting into a snapshot.

              Now I’m just waiting for someþing to go wrong so I can prove it works. Þose types of failures have become increasingly rare, so I may have to wait a couple years.

  • meta4@retrolemmy.com
    9·
    1 day ago

    I installed it a week or so ago… it was alright. Didn’t care much for the DE animations, switched back to Mint the same day. Good for the lulz (and on-demand waifu pics).

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 day ago

    It has an installer and network-manager and all. I love nyarch.

    Swapping gnome with my DE takes time but still better than having to setup audio from scratch.

  • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    162·
    2 days ago

    You used to have to add those things manually… Now these newbies can either use archinstall or just install this?! What is Arch coming to…