• ColdWater@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    For me vanilla Arch is the easiest to use and diagnosed, I tried the switch to other distros when the malwares fiasco broke out but I feel like I’m using Linux for the first time again, I can’t understand anything about the os I’m using what command I have to use to install softwares after figured it out half of my software is not in the repo so I have to compile it like a cave man and don’t get me started on where are all of my config files is.

  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I have never touched arch because i heard it was hard and i just wanted a distro that works without too much effort put in

    I use nixos btw

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Project car vs daily driver.
    Just different purposes and people have different tolerances for tinkering.

    Also, when you want the car to behave in a specific way, you’re willing to tune it to do so.

    • Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Arch is nice… but i would love someone to tell me what happens if i stop updating for a month or something of the like

      • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Been using it for 5+ years, not the best internet so it has happened to me a few times typically a minor annoyance like the other user said. What were the exact steps again? Makes the updating process even more tedious.

        It’s worse when you’ve got to do manual intervention and that’s why I’m not updating now, legacy nvidia driver moved to the AUR (which I didn’t always update). If I could get a cheap AMD card it really would help here, especially as legacy and proprietary are also potential issues with installing a new distro too.

        My system is mostly usable now despite being pretty out-of-date by Arch standards, I probably need to move to something else but being outdated (and not prepared) means I can’t just spin up a VM to try stuff out either.

      • gnu@lemmy.zip
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        7 hours ago

        Mostly nothing, but I did have issues once where a package changed but couldn’t be installed due to failing verification as the keyring wasn’t updated. That killed the desktop environment on boot but dropping into the console and updating the keyring specifically before trying the full update again fixed things.

        • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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          5 hours ago

          By now there’s an always-enabled service running that updates the keys from time to time. So this wine happen anymore on servers.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        After a while, but probably more than a month, you would need to refresh your keys as the ones that your system trusts would not match the signatures on what is being downloaded from the repo and you would be getting signature errors.

        You’d just install archlinux-keyring first, and then do a full system upgrade. If that didn’t work you could refresh the keys with pacman-key (pacman-key --refresh-keys) and then install archlinux-keyring->upgrade.

        Your system would work fine without updating, though I guess eventually a new version of HTML will come out in a decade or so and your browser won’t support it… but until then you’d be fine(security issues aside).

  • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I had a little experience with Debian-based stuff on routers and whatnot going in, but when I finally migrated my main PC to linux I went with an Arch-based distro (cachyos) because the documentation on both projects is fantastic. I was able to get everything set up the way I wanted in a couple of days, with only one reinstall along the way lol.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    i just wanted off windows and to play my video games, not inherent a project, i loaded Bazzite, and only had a little unexpected project

  • fraksken@infosec.pub
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    9 hours ago

    I found it a great way to learn what the different components are actually for and how they interconnect/interact. But honestly, I would not use it as a daily driver again. I’m tired of fixing everything afer each update.

    Went to Fedora, good and stable. Tried some OpenSUSE, nice and European. Settled with MX Linux. Ticked all the boxes, best Linux experience so far.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Went to a family-run Indian place in Cornwall looking for vindaloo, but the guy talked me down to a madras. Good thing cuz it was right on the edge of my tolerance level. I couldn’t have eaten their vindaloo.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Watched an older relative of mine once stick his finger in the blob on his plate and eat a big ‘ol chunk of it thinking it was avocado. We thought he was done for