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    submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

    If you didn't fuck up a few partition tabels you are a normie

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

    I'm well known for borking my arch installations, not long ago I was struggling with Grub because apparently I have terrible reading comprehension and kept creating a boot partition with boot flags (EFI) and then installing Grub for my BIOS system... Not that I didn't know it was BIOS, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to flag the partition as bootable.

    My head still hurts from the constant bashing against the keyboard and the facepalm upon realizing my stupidity.

    I still manually partition my system because I'm a control freak. Fortunately I haven't had to look at partition tables for a long time now.

    Archinstall rocks, though installing Arch manually at least once or twice first is an incredibly valuable educational experience. I wouldn't have known what an fstab file was, and I realized just how important that was when I moved some data from a partition into another with dd. I manually reconfigured the fstab and the dopamine jolt I got from successfully doing that is unforgettable (of course, after 2 hours of scrambling on the internet because I borked something again)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I didnt know archinstall existed when I first installed arch 😔

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

    I EndeavourOS

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

    As of recent, I've done both of these.

    Honestly, just use archinstall, it's a much easier process.

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

    archinstall has made me actually use the system smoothly and be able to learn using a gui while doing other stuff, big fan !!

    being able to research on my pc instead of on my phone is a game changer, streamlining the install process is great

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I had to look that one up.

    I admit, I've been using EndeavorOS everywhere that isn't a server, and I'm not ashamed; like my doctor says: there's no reward for being in pain; it's not a contest.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

    What are you talking about? I wish I could do stuff like installing or managing my Arch installations more often, as it’s very relaxing and satisfying. The problem is, my installs never break and there’s nothing to do about them most of the time. I work in IT however and my job throws rocks at me all the time with some bullshit corporate software and horrible Sysadm/DevOps practices and boy’oboy is it frustrating….

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    …. No reward?

    Then your top is doing it wrong; just saying.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I use Manjaro because I'm too lazy to install arch and I could never get endeavor to boot. I just wanna play Titanfall 2 and play with ardour and freecad don't make fun of me 😅

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

    It's a good choice. Just avoid installing stuff from the AUR (at least no system packages)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

    Completely valid,there´s nothing to make fun of here :)