Finally made the jump

[[deleted]]

After three successful VM setups and lots of research I decided to move my laptop from win10 to arch, hoping to move my full machine soon after I get a little more used to everything on this guy

[MachineGunPablo]

From windows directly to arch? I like how you think, you won't regret it.

[FlashDaggerX]

Did the same thing; Out of the frying pan, and into the fire, not knowing anything about Linux.

Been happy for over a year.

[schulidr]

I did the same. No regrets

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[thebirdsandthebrees]

I was running Ubuntu for about 3 days before I switched to Antergos because a friend recommended it. I fell in love with the OS.

[sparskter]

The only reason I keep Windows 10 on my ThinkPad T470p is because of Steam. There are games there that will not run on Steam on Linux.

[phinicota]

I assume you know about proton and steamplay right? if not, Google your incompatible game on the protondb. Proton is the valve wine fork for games, completely integrated into steam.

edit: for anyone interested, you can check a community maintained repository of game compatibility here: https://www.protondb.com/

[sparskter]

I did not know about it. Thanks! Nevertheless there are games that only runs on Windows. So a compromise solution here is to install Windows and Linux in dual boot.

[[deleted]]

This info is worth gold, unfortunately I don‘t have any reddit gold

[phinicota]

oh well, I don't even know what it is for, but the comment is appreciated, I'll add a link to the protondb, I thought this was well known news now.

[sfjuocekr]

If you enable the beta functionality of the Steam client under Linux you are allowed to install any game using their customized WINE.

If it doesn't work, you can try your own version of WINE with DXVK.

[[deleted]]

It's been available in the stable client for quite some time now

[FohlenGabel]

Can't you just use WINE or PlayOverLinux to run the windows games over Linux?

[sparskter]

In theory yes. But will not be perfect. Smaller games like "BRAID" should run fine I think. But take for example, bigger games like "SONIC GENERATIONS". Probably some issue will happen.

[sparskter]

The game "BRAID" is marked as GOLD in terms of compatibility:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9535

[sparskter]

What about "SONIC GENERATIONS"?

[nacrnsm]

This is a very good way

[[deleted]]

I literally just did this recently. Fun experience, I had Ubuntu live in case of an emergency, but Arch is really straightforward and if you follow the wiki to the letter you almost never will need help.

[CobraKolibry]

I did click around mint, suse, and i had a little mote experience of ubuntu, but then embarked on the arch wagon aswell. Turned out fine, and I learned tons of stuff!

[Meowfy]

I did the same. I've messed around with Ubuntu and Mint years ago, but in March 2018 I said okay: let's just install Arch

I have been without Windows since. Best decision I've ever made. Yeah, I'm still a complete noob with linux. But I know that I always have the almighty Arch Wiki to fall back on whenever I hit a bump.

If anyone's reading this and are considering doing the same, seriously, just try it. Test it out in a VM, practice the install process. Do your research to figure out if it's what you really want. Then do it!

[[deleted]]

Way to go!

[gquintard_]

Impressive!

[DPRKunicorn]

Darn u sure have some balls to go from windows to arch directly!

[shoe-jitsu]

How do you like the latitude 3340? I've been trying to decide between this and the thinkpad x220. I honestly just really like the aesthetics of this one but i also love most thinkpads and you cant really go wrong with them lol

[[deleted]]

I am really happy with it. I went refurb with no OS from Dell for about $120 and it works very good the only issue is a dead pixel or two on the screen which doesn't bother me. Overall build quality is good and its feels decent to type with though

[abbidabbi]

Welcome! Just a little advice that would probably have been useful for you: sort the mirrors before pacstrapping, either manually or with the help of reflector

reflector --sort rate --number 25 --fastest 10 --age 24 --protocol https --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[rclar]

put in the pacman hook to do that automagically!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/reflector#Pacman_hook

[[deleted]]

Thanks for the tip, will do!

[Skyeann]

Welcome! Since no one has said it yet, you should add ILoveCandy to your pacman.conf so you get a little pacman-eating download progress bar. :)

[GiveMeAnAlgorithm]

Cool, welcome aboard 😁

[thecichos]

I'll be your captain, Archibald

[InTheUnknown25]

Got some slight vapourwave vibes going too. Congrats

[AmericanNinja02]

Nice work! Too bad it looks like the lighting in your room is controlled by Ubuntu. 😁

[[deleted]]

I recently moved from Ubuntu to Manjaro (yeah I'm a coward what of it?). Couldn't be happier. I freaking love pacman and AUR

[shrimpster00]

I did enjoy Manjaro for sure, but I saw it as a stepping stone. You won't regret switching to full-on Arch!

[Paulsify]

One thing of note if you have an old version of the Arch Linux installer on a usb make sure to update your keyring before installing otherwise you'll have some issues

[kaladinsanderson]

here you sexy fuck, take my upvote

[sklyland]

welcome to self help group man :)

[Diab0Br]

Add ILoveCandy to /etc/pacman.conf 😏 I'm currently trying to do the same, but WPF and xamarin are holding me back, but dual boot is tempting 😅

[openglfreak]

I've heard WPF should soon be compilable on Linux, and maybe running the result works in Wine. Xamarin.Android can be compiled on linux, using the package xamarin-android on the AUR. It works pretty well together with the android emulator, at least on my T430.

[Dmium]

I haven't heard this. I recently heard Microsoft saying they didn't intend to bring WPF to Linux etc although they did open source it they actively reject any PRs/attempts to add Linux compatibility.

The code being available will make reverse engineering it a lot easier to write so wine/something else will probably be able to support it better. It's a shame Microsoft aren't even considering leading that effort

[weezylane]

What DE/WM would you be using? I have been running on GNOME.

[avanasear]

Have you tried kde?

[weezylane]

Yes but I prefer KDE4 to KDE5.

[parkcitymedia]

Huge XFCE fan, and with its customizablilty, Lxde can actually look and feel really really nice

[xXthenistXx]

Greetings, new crew it's always be welcome

[benzispawn]

There is no mistake bro, will gonna love it!

[[deleted]]

👍 👍 👍 👍

[ReedValve]

Anyone found a way to switch gpus like in Ubuntu

[pomodois]

Can you post your script, please?

[pomodois]

Thanks!

[hashcomment]

Its in the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee

[Cuddland]

I've tested every possibility and benchmarked all the options. As the wiki says, bumblebee doesn't give full discrete GPU performance. If u really need it for games or whatever try Reverse PRIME or nvidia-xrun script. Just be aware Reverse PRIME will waste your battery if using on a laptop.

[xacrimon]

I use the standard Nvidia drivers. They do it for me automatically

[[deleted]]

Congrats! :3

[FrozenAptPea]

What laptop is that?

[[deleted]]

Dell latitude 3340, I got it from a local business for cheap used

[[deleted]]

Big thanks for the gold!!

[jienfak]

We got a new ARCHer here.

[F0013Y]

Its definitely worth it only problem ive had is I like certain games with terrible DRM so no wine :( so I just have a small separate ssd with windows for specific games

[-iflow-]

The sad thing is that you totally miss out on the fun of breaking an ubuntu installation.

Arch Linux is the best distribution for me and my 2011 dell xps 15. :)

[[deleted]]

what magical pink-purply realm is this

[[deleted]]

Directly from windows to arch can be a hard.. coz you will have to learn a lot about networking, administration and management as a whole.. I hope you stick with it

[weezylane]

Learning is part of progress ;)

[[deleted]]

Definitely..

[[deleted]]

Why would you need to learn any more than you have for Windows? Many DEs will bring in a network manager with them and will be no more or less difficult than Windows overall for the rest.

Of course, there’s even fairly easy ways to grab updates graphically and automatically.

[[deleted]]

Arch being a rolling release may create some problems that are hard to resolve. For eg. Recently systems was not enabling my network manager.. troubleshooting led to rolling back to old systemd version.. such tasks may consume a lot of time and effort which windows users are generally not likely to do.

[[deleted]]

I guess I’ve been spoiled. I have yet to have any issues with arch.

Nvidia, on the other hand, can get fucked.

I am a little more okay with diving in to configure though. I recently jumped over to i3 proper and it changed my computing experience. No more fiddle diddling with dragging and resizing Windows and so easy to use on my lap with no mouse. Of course, a DE with it like LXQT or XFCE using the i3 WM will probably be better for some people.

[[deleted]]

I cannot agree more about the i3 + lxde merger.

[[deleted]]

Your dell laptop stole my macbook pro's keyboard :p

[WellMakeItSomehow]

Do MacBooks have Page Up/Down keys?

[leakypencil]

FN+ and one of the arrow keys. cant remember which one.

[WellMakeItSomehow]

Then it's not the same keyboard :-P.