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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Never seen the third LotR film; I was literally about to finally watch it today so thanks for spoiling the movie for me.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    Spoiler alert Snape kills Boromir

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Gollum, Frodo, and Gandalf are in the Harry Potter films?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    "An update can wreck your bootloader with no notice, but hey, that's part of the fun!"

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

    A wrecked bootloader is not a problem, but a lesson to keep a usb drive to be able to chroot.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    There's never a wrong time to update Arch Linux!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    No wrong times, only small periods of unfortunate times!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I think you mean there’s never a right time to update! You’re always rolling the dice!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    So that's why they're called "rolling" releases!

    /s

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Timeshift has been huge for this

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Atomic distro users: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    Never had problems with that tbh, only with NVidia. Even on testing.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I tried arch once. Eventually, my computer just showed a black screen on booting. I managed to fix it by resetting my bios. That was the end of that attempt at using arch. Still want to try again, though.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    There's several flavors of Arch?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I'm new to Linux and use Endeavor OS. Its Arch BTW so everything I do I just look up the Arch Wiki.

    Endeavour comes with KDEPlasma, or you can pick others. It also has basic applications like Firefox and media players. But nothing in the way of office etc.

    I think Manjaro is similar but deviates from arch a bit.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I've been using Mint for a year or two now, but if/when I "upgrade" so to speak to something with more control, I plan to get EOS. Arch is a bit much for me right now and openSUSE and Manjaro borked right away when I tried them (though to be fair, so did Mint-my hardware was too snazzy and I needed to update to the latest kernel to get everything working). But the control Arch offers is tempting, and EOS with KDE would suit me nicely. The best thing about Linux IMO is that you have choices about what you run; you don't have to use any one distro, because no one can really force you to.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    My limited knowledge and time force me to certain distros. Some of my stuff only works on EOS, others only on Mint.

    It's easier to install another distro than spend another hour troubleshooting. I know "just read the wiki" but sometimes we don't have the skills, imagine a neckbeard trying to "just have a shower, and get out the basement".

    It makes it even more tempting to move back to Windows where I can just plug and play. But I'm forcing myself not to. ... Well that and Win11 isn't supported.

    And re things not working. I'll not even a gamer with special hardware. Just use it for web browsing and citrix for WFH.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    He jumped into Gentoo two days after with Arch

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Btrfs my beloved. Things stop working? Just load a snapshot lol.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Just don't try plugging it into a Raspberry Pi 5.

    No data loss, but won't work without changing your kernel. The other way around is much worse though


    you can use an RPi5 to make a BTRFS drive which essentially only works on RPi5s.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    The moment you finally install arch and your realize you still feel empty inside.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    The moment I finally installed Arch was then I felt "freedom" for the first time. No longer do I need to make compromises on my system and have things installed that I don't need or want. It's my system that I put together the way I like it. A bonus is that I know my system pretty well if something should break and I have the wiki to guide me

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    As a former arch linux guy, the solution to this is to be prepared by having a separate partition for home, and a bash script to reinstall f---ing everything again with a single command.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    a bash script to reinstall f—ing everything again

    Why would you ever want to do that?

    First of all, almost any Arch update induced problem can be solved by downgrading the offending package to the previous version, which handily is available in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. This is an essential Arch troubleshooting skill.

    Even an unbootable system (which has only happened once in my 10 years of using Arch because I didn't read important news) can be fixed this way, because you can always boot from the installation usb stick and then use arch-chroot to access your installation and fix problems.

    Secondly, if the problem was indeed caused by an Arch update, you will just reinstall the problem if you run a reinstall script.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    aaaand thats why i like "newbie" distros like ubuntu mint fedora and such.

    i want my computer to work without a hitch and without having to maintain the OS.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    And I like having my software up-to-date. It sucked ass when I was on Mint and one of my favorite programs had an update and I had to wait months for it to hit the repos.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Ubuntu has never been remotely stable for me. Something stupid breaks or becomes difficult to get what I want out of it.

    Been that way since it came out for me.

    I find Arch much less hassle than Ubuntu ever was.

    Just recently put Ubuntu on a machine for a work project. It was broken from the get go, throwing errors and being it's usual shitty self.

    I could never recommend it.

    Fedora on the other hand has been on a spare laptop for about 6 months and I gotta say they really have put some polish in. Updates are frequent but reasonable and most everything works well. Some small issues but they are not show stoppers and Fedora is aware of them.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    i find that distros focusing on ease of use tend to not tolerate modding and prodding as well as the distros focusing on modularity and customizability.

    i think its time to consider something like arch or gentoo when you are changing it around too much at the expense of some more maintaining.

    also yeah fedora is really polished, i like it.