It’s been about a month since I converted my old Laptop lying around, and my home Desktop to #Linux, specifically Arch Linux, and the experience has been good so far. Linux just breathes a whole new life into your old system.
For those who are wondering, if I’d spend 6 hours installing Arch Linux, I used archinstall script, which is available in the Arch Linux ISO, to setup my system in about 15 mins.
There are also projects like Calam-Arch-Installer which provides a GUI for Arch Linux Installation.
While I don’t know that 2025 can be called as the Year of #Linux Desktop, I’m 100 percent sure, that Linux will go on to increase it’s market share, from what we have today, primarily because of the direction in which @microsoft is going with @Windows10 .
I’ve gotta convert my main laptop to Arch #Linux as well, but need Windows for academic purposes, so that plan will stay on hold for now, and I will still be on @Windows10 11🥲.
Anyways, here’s the link for Calam-Arch-Installer, if any of you are interested:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blue-arch-installer/This provides a nice Live Environment for trying out Arch Linux, and a graphical Calamares Installer to install Arch Linux.
@frankiemwon @microsoft @Windows10 awesome welcome to the dark side. You chose arch as your first distro?
And what academic tools do you require that are on that windows laptopI currently learning Electronics Engineering, so some tools like the ones from Xilinx, and Electromagnetic Simulation tools from Ansys etc(for Students) are available only for Windows, and not Linux.
@frankiemwon @microsoft @Windows10 oh ok then sad theres no linux equivalent. GL on your course!
@AnonBD @microsoft @Windows10 Thanks for your wishes.
Maybe when I’m done with my academics, I plan to switch my main laptop to Arch Linux.
By that time, Linux should really be a good alternative, with tonnes of software options, than it has now.
Year of the Linux Desktop awaits😁
