I once exited vim.
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That's easy. Just hold the computer's power button.
Lisan al Gaib!
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We found the chosen one!
now do ed!
Me who just installed installed EndeavourOS via their live disk because it's stupidly simple, arch based, and I can read the arch wiki when I have issues.
There a few of us
Dozens!
Endeavour gang rise up
Seriously though itβs glaringly straightforward and all the benefits of arch without the slog. Iβve been happy with it for years now.
I also switched from pre-archinstall arch to Endeavor. I might try archinstall at some point but I'm currently fine with Endeavor
Anyone can install Mint, that's hardly a big deal.
i understand my nixos configuration
I have an acquaintance who walked me through his setup. I was impressed, mostly at how many little things he needed to have done to get it to how he likes it.
I don't use Arch, btw
Until you run an apt command that reinstalls snapd because so many official packages are snaps.
Last time I installed arch the archinstall didn't exist in its current form yet... It's been working fine since then. Arch truly is eternal in that you never need to reinstall.
That's called a Rolling Release. It will periodically bless you with a broken system to test your sysadmin skills.
(brace for all the "bUt It'S sTaBLe FoR mE" replies)
I give you a thumbs up.
When I was running XFCE with Arch, my Installation was several years old and I only had a handful of incidents that needed manual Intervention, which was very manageable for me, so at the end of the day, it was the most stable system I had by far compared to other distributions I used, although I had a Nvidia GPU.
When I switched to Plasma with Wayland on my newer AMD only machine, I constantly had issues especially with Plasma after updates. And these were things I could not fix but rather needed to find workarounds until it got fixed with a later update (for example NTFS support on Dolphin not working properly, panels crashing constantly, configurations that partly got reset etc.)
Arch can be really stable but only if you use conservative Software for your DE/WM and critical infrastructure.
bUt ItβS sTaBLe FoR neiGH
It truly is stable for me π
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Finally a correct usage of this meme format :D
Joke boss was joke.
I was able to rescue GRUB from memory 10 years ago.
Okay that sounds pretty impressive
I once accidentally deleted python from my gentoo system (needed for emerge) and rescued it.
You are the chosen one.
How did you do that? (Both "that"s I guess!)
I found out there were binary packages that were build together and manually downloaded and unpacked every package I needed for a minimum coherent build chain (no kernel but gcc, gnuutils etc) and used that to get emerge working again to build a new build chain with my own settings and used that to rebuild system to get rid of the foreign packages and be back. The gentoo wiki helped a lot.
Nice! Sounds like a learning experience. Was it a fun challenge for you or annoying, in the end?
Haha both of course. Young me was intrigued by this great puzzle of getting the system back up. Much quicker than a reinstall, too! At the same time it was one of the Gentoo moments that made me switch to Arch and Manjaro later. I certainly learned a lot with Gentoo but it was also a fragile timesink.
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I installed my fingerprint drivers only to unlock keyring with my password every time I unlock.
I installed arch without arch install many times and im always still nervous and confused by the boot loader instructions... But these days, I use archinstall.
Now i havent actually reinstalled my arch in 3 years though. Running smooth. Normally i like that feeling of a clean system very much but its so time consuming.
Im also using Ubuntu systems and its infuriating how i cant get the latest version of certain software on older Ubuntus like 22.04.
The bootloader instructions are ass. But the final boss is full disk encryption.
Whenever I want that, I just use Archinstall.
Instead of following screen prompts I followed on screen prompts we are not the same.
Me who doesn't completely care what flavor of Linux is installed and uses flatpaks and docker for everything because I just want things to work and threw away my integrity after my first catastrophic hardware failure of my server that I'd been maintaining poorly and precariously on an external drive for three years.
But can you install Firefox without having snap be reinstalled?
Yes, from the Mozilla PPA. One may also want to prevent snapd from being installed again by pinning it with a sufficiently low negative priority.
Credit to whom credit is due @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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i configure portage from memory
I installed Fedora without installer. It was more βfunβ than arch
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