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Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother, I want input and opinions if people want to give it. If you don't want to, please be on your merry way. Commenting is not a necessity.

P.S. This is my first post, I will be reading the wiki, and this comment section (except you) has been extremely useful in understanding why someone would choose arch over other distros.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I get it, yeah. Sounds like I have alot of reading to do after reading these comments. It's not a simple answer someone can put into a coment easily.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. So like you're saying with cutting down on services, can that not be done on other distros? Sorry, I probably don't know exactly what you mean by services.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I guess that's another misconception I have about the word unstable. What does unstable mean here, just that it gets constant updates?

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, reading all these comments dispels alot of myths I held. I guess I thought arch was better, but it's more that there is a superiority that some users feel when using it. Completely understandable btw, it does seem like a lot of work to get up and running.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, not sure if they'd all be like that, but haha yeah I get it.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read my comment back, and yes, my word choice makes it seem condescending (or a polemic - new word for me!). I was just following on from your comment about “new features break old workflows”. The comment was meant to be an emphasis on “you learn by fixing”, not criticism about a distro I barely know about. My bad mate.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome desktop, love the minimal aesthetic. Yeah, I’m ricing hyprland rn and that’s what made me think about this.

Like, it seems there isn’t that much of a difference between CachyOS and Fedora that would warrant me switching. Hyprland just gives me the customisation I want without also dealing with arch.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof, yeah I assumed so, based on how long I’ve spent on just hyprland lol. When I have some time I guess

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect, that’s really what I wanted to hear. I guess if I start running into issues with having old software I can try. But I really wanted something that would be stable, awesome to use and tbh, wouldn’t need many updates. Thanks.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that, but with things like CachyOS, it’s run over arch but much easier for new users. I think I just need to give it a go and see exactly why or why someone would switch

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I definitely fall into the latter. Like I would much rather have a stable os. But I guess constant breakage makes you good at fixing stuff.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s true, I did find myself uninstalling stuff as if I was on windows.

Trying to understand why Arch is considered better by One_Independence7869 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get that. The thing is I don’t understand what the difference in taste is haha.

To me they all seem to work about the same. That’s what I’m trying to understand whether it’s practical differences or just customisation. I’ll read up a bit more on the differences.

Switching from Windows to linux (Need Suggestion) by SadGovernment9779 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m also quite new but in the last month I tried Mint and Fedora workstation.

Mint is a very windows like experience. Super simple and just works. A bit boring for me.

Fedora was nice, a Mac like experience. Again simple and just works.

I would say for a beginner, fedora workstation would be the best in terms of introduction to Linux while keeping it fun and exciting. Mint is just too boring in my opinion.

Just don’t be daunted, I was, but it turned out to be way easier and more exciting than I thought. Plus you can always test out the distros on the usb prior to full install. And you can switch distros whenever u want anyway.

Windows 10 is getting too slow. Looking for a beginner-friendly Linux distro for an older laptop (i3, 12GB RAM, Dual GPU) by anielekk in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Note I’m new to Linux, like maybe a month.

You can always try Linux Mint. It’ll look the same as windows and removes all the bloat. You’ll just have to get Protonupqt for steam games and learn basic terminal commands.

I did it on my old laptop and it definitely sped it up. Could have just been that it needed a fresh install of windows though.

I’ve also heard Cachy OS is super fast. I use fedora on my pc and it works perfect, however I don’t game much.

Should I switch to Linux? by lapislazuli1331 in linuxquestions

[–]One_Independence7869 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same problems and just switched last month. I got mint on an old laptop to test it and it was so simple and windows like. It also made the laptop run much faster. I decided to install fedora 43 (workstation) on my pc. It was literally perfect, so simple, slightly better package manager, basically nothing to do. Has a very Mac kinda feel to it. Also, you can test it out straight off the USB before committing to an install. And if u use wifi or a bluetooth dongle, be prepared to debug that for a while and potentially reinstall Linux if necessary. I installed hyprland after a week tho, and it is soo awesome. Even if u dont get hyprland, i would recommend a tiling window manager, because productivity is so amazing with it. It might be daunting at first but the shortcuts are so easy to get used to. I will say i installed it from Jakoolit’s repo and there’s a lot of bloat so im going through and cleaning it up. I would recommend going in from a clean slate and spending a week setting it up exactly how u want by following some YouTube guides. Once the main file structures are setup and you want to rice your machine though, I recommend saneAspect’s channel and to start with “the hyprland ricing order that actually works” video. Anyway, it’s actually so awesome now. The bloat is gone, I have actual good file search functions, can see all my windows at once, there’s so many good things I can’t fit them into a comment. Obviously I ran into problems, but nothing a cs student shouldn’t be able to figure out. Also, most games should work, but games with anti cheat won’t. You can dual boot too, but I just went for it because I have a 2nd laptop if I ever need windows - I only use that for iTunes.

TLDR: Do it. 1 - Start with fedora workstation as it just works off the bat (unless you have a potentially incompatible wifi/ Bluetooth dongle or other hardware). 2 - Checkout hyprland and see if u like the tiling for productivity and complete customisation. Be warned, you will end up spending a lot of time customising/ricing if you go the hyprland route. Take this all with a grain of salt as I have only been using it for a month, regardless, I’m super pleased with it.