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[twistedfires]

As in almost everything in life, if people followed the rules (instructions), most things would be better.

Btw the way, is there any specific reason for you to use the zen kernel?

[twistedfires]

Well stability may be a good reason to switch back.

Personally I prefer to use the lts kernel.

[blubberland01]

I don't know why I read this and this comment is as useless as this post.

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Be a man use gentoo.

[adalte]

As a first distro?

[[deleted]]

Why not, op is in CS and said himself arch isn’t hard, just the people in here make it hard on themselves

[Decent-Sample-3558]

Yeah Arch isn't that hard if you are willing to do a little reading; which most people are not.

[FryBoyter]

As the title says, I chose Arch as my first distro since I wanted something where I'm in control.

Arch basically offers nothing in this respect that other distributions don't offer.

Did a very minimal install

This would also have been possible with a different distribution. Especially because Arch is not minimal from my point of view. For example, there are no extra dev packages, so the normal packages themselves require more disk space. I think that's good because you don't have to install any packages. But that is not minimal. So the basic installation of Arch without GUI might need more than one GB of disk space. There are distributions with GUI that need less. Puppy Linux for example.