Is Arch Linux really the best distro for a modern rig gaming/coding? or am I just falling for the meme? I thought Pop, Fedora were also good for that?
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Is Arch Linux really the best distro for a modern rig gaming/coding? or am I just falling for the meme?
Yes. Sane distro that basically hands you the steering wheel and doesn't care if you can't drive.
Works for me, yeah. Pop is a nice idea but it's gimped because it's based on Ubuntu. Fedora might be okay though.
arch is comfy, once you get past the install and installing all the packages u need
but installation is trivial
>pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware
what is there to be filtered by? formatting your drive?
frick off homosexual, did i say it was hard? it just takes time like installing all the packages u will need
>all packages you will need
calm down clown, you can install packages when you need them
Congrats, brainlet. That will leave you with an unbootable system with no EFI partition, no network, no kernel headers (hence no ability to compile anything or even load DKMS modules), let alone anything like FDE.
He correctly described the installation of the base system. Everything else is detailed in the Installation Guide. He clearly didn't intend for that to describe the entire installation process, because he alluded to the partitioning process.
tbf the installation guide is very short in the bootmanagers and very very far down the path. i too have forgotten about them when i was new to linux.
>He correctly described the installation of the base system.
Lol, your base system doesn't have a bootloader or EFI partition? Pretty fricking rad dude!
>I set that up before mounting main partition, brainlet
You'd have to, that was my entire point you stupid fricking sack of shit. You said installation was trivial and then quoted a command that does not give you a complete installation of anything. Because you're a moron who doesn't know what he is talking about.
>I plug my ethernet cable in and it just works
As a generic 10/100 device because it's using a generic kernel driver. That's what happens when you're a moron who doesn't know what he is talking about.
>don't care about your troony malware non-standard modules that are only relevant to novideo homosexuals
You need kernel headers to build anything locally, which you would know if you had ever actually installed Arch or ever actually used Linux. But you don't know that, because you're a moron who doesn't know what he is talking about. And boy oh boy are you eager to prove it too!
>I have nothing to hide, not even the pipebomb strapped to the back of my computer
Hurrrrrrrrr you super funny. You should see if you can find work as a standup comedian. Comedians do not need to know anything about computers, which would be a good career path for you since you're a moron who doesn't know what he is talking about.
>Lol, your base system doesn't have a bootloader or EFI partition? Pretty fricking rad dude!
Yes. It's embarrassing that you can't imagine situations in which that might be desirable.
is this a bot post? this is almost too angry for a human and i hear the gpt-Ganker bot or w/e responds with hostility to any post.
>unbootable
I set that up before mounting main partition, brainlet
>no network
I plug my ethernet cable in and it just works
>no kernel headers
don't care about your troony malware non-standard modules that are only relevant to novideo homosexuals
>FDE
I have nothing to hide, not even the pipebomb strapped to the back of my computer
This is the correct take, all others saying it's meme or too hard are wrong. You get decently lean, nice and comfy OS which you can add and remove stuff at will easily
if you're new to linux, meme waste of time
if you want to learn more about linux itself, good hobby
Arch is unironically my favourite just-werks distro.
>pacstrap what you need
>setup bootloader
>never have to worry ever again
who cares
theres more noob friendly material for debian/ubuntu
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Sure, I'm not saying newbies should go for it, I'm countering your assertion that it's just a hobbyist distro.
>never have to worry ever again
BS. Pacman broke my bootloader and basically my whole install because I didn't update for a month.
>because I
yes anon, (You)
For me the keyrings fricked up and thus pacman couldn't "resolve dependencies". All I had to do was update the keyring package but I'm not totally comfortable with the idea of my system "punishing" me for not using it.
It's one thing if I frick something up because of some meme commands I entered without knowing what they do, that's on me. It's another thing entirely if I decide to touch grass for a few months and the system breaks down on its own like a fricking tamagotchi I have to take care of or else it dies.
>meme waste of time
void is better
xbpsbrapppppwtfbbq
>what is aliases
>needs an alias to cope with shittiest name for a package manager ever
>filtered by package manager name
imagine this nigguh
nigguh fr fr xbkrfspklgbtq+ bussin no cap bruh
have a nice day and stop being Black person
Ironically, it's actually pacman that has the ridiculous syntax and requires aliases to do any fricking thing. xbps is the simplest package manager I've ever dealt with. Want to remove orphaned packages and clean cache?
xbps-remove -Oo
The equivalent command with pacman?
pacman -Rns $ (pacman -Qtdq)
Or how about if we want to look up the reverse dependency tree for a package? On Void:
xbps-query -X package_name
And on Arch:
pacman -Qi package_name | grep 'Depends On'
How intuitive. I can see why xbps really bends your mind.
or if you install a package which has already been installed as a dependency it doesn’t update the installation reason, if you installed yt-dlp and then installed ffmpeg after and removed yt-dlp while purging dependencies as anyone would do ffmpeg would be gone, you have to explicitly tell pacman to update the installation reason, no idea why they made it this way
>filtered by pacman
Reverse dependency tree:
pacman -Sii
No, brainlet. I used pacman for about 3/4 of a decade. It's a shitty package manager with a ridiculous syntax. pacman -Sii is a standard dependency tree for a package that hasn't been installed yet btw. If you wanted to BTFO me you should have said
>hurrrrrr durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr just use pactree
Since that's what it's for.
You used pacman for seven years and still managed to get filtered by it?
>his "package manager" needs grep to show depending packages
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>his package manager gives so much information that the brainlets can't see Depends On: unless they grep for it
>He is confused by more than two words
It's either that or you're using a tiny screen. Either way, you're a dumb homosexual.
>Want to remove orphaned packages
alias orphans="pacman -Qtdq | sudo pacman -Rns -"
>and clean cache?
sudo pacman -Scc
isnt using Arch and the AUR trusting some anon from who knows where and their repo? fedora and ubuntu/pop/mint dont seem to have this problem
The AUR is, yes. But that is not a part of Arch, they do not support it, and it is not enabled by default. It's the same thing as rpmfusion on Fedora, so yes, it does have that 'problem'. Ubuntu has/had PPAs but now they've gone full moron with snap.
installing crap with like 1 vote on the AUR is kinda sus ngl
Yes that is exactly what the aur is. This anon is missing a puzzle piece.
I mean you’re supposed to read through the PKGBUILD file before installing, all the AUR does is streamlining an otherwise manual installation process so having to read that file is still a huge timesaver compared to figuring out how to do everything manually
The most annoying thing about arch is.... Packagekit doesnt work that well with alpm i guess. Other than that its like, the dostro equivalent of the puzzle piece in the meme where the guy puts the one missing puzzle piece in the back of his head.
Pop, Flatpaks and OpenSnitch and youre good
Just use gufw.
Linux is Linux. After your first 3-4 months distrohopping you should have learned enough to make any distro do what you want it to do.
Arch is an unstable meme, go with Fedora instead
Fedora Silverblue is the future of Linux
>installs vlc
>needs to reboot