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    • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not like he’s compiling Linux from scratch on day one. Arch is pretty well supported and has a package manager.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      arch is basic. It’s just minimalise by default.

      It has an amazing wiki, extremely active and helpful user forums, and an installer (i think now) or at least a massively helpfully customised shell for initial setup.

      you can install arch and make it look like mint or whatever easily, then the only difference is pacman and the amazing AUR

    • K0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Lol i hear this alot about arch users and as a newbie i dont get it. It has been the easiest for me to understand, maybe its the documentation idk i started with endavourOS as well which is a great beginner OS for arch IMO

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        1 year ago

        EndeavourOS isn’t pure arch. (I don’t mean this in an elitist way. Use whatever is best for you.) Pure arch doesn’t come with a desktop, so it sucks for new users.

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          I would agree but most people dont even know that a DE is different then an OS. I do plain arch now i was just saying it was a good starting point

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      I started with an Arch-based distro and haven’t looked back (EndeavorOS. Though I guess it’s kind of like Arch easy mode). I have a family member that has been daily driving Linux for over a decade, so that was very helpful during the transition. But after a week or two, I haven’t needed his help at all.

      My laptop that previously ran Windows 11 is faster than ever.