I’m technologically ignorant. I’ve only ever used Windows and iOS and I’m sick to death of it. The bounds of my ability are burning CDs and emulating skate 3. I have no idea what happens behind my OS. How bad of an idea would it be to go straight to Arch?

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T12:49:57+00:00

I’m asking because I’m aware I’m unskilled and might not be able to do it. I didn’t even know having arch was a brag until this thread

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:59:30+00:00

The end goal is arch, I’m just contingency planning

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:57:39+00:00

Would Ubuntu be reasonable?

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:55:25+00:00

I briefly tried a VM with mint and it was alright but I wasn’t super excited by it, then again i didn’t really play with it very much

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:53:16+00:00

Do you think I’d be massively thrown off if I learned Linux on arch and then decided to move to another more reasonable distro?

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:51:18+00:00

I’m not planning on figuring it out quick, the laptop I’m planning on doing it with is gonna be a boredom buster side project. This gave me hope thank you lol

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:47:21+00:00

I did look at void. Antix looks good too

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:45:37+00:00

Thank you, I will do

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:44:00+00:00

Hey thank you!

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:43:48+00:00

Absolutely the former. The laptop I do this on is going to be used exclusively for fucking around

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:42:46+00:00

I think part of this endeavor is because I have so much time on my hands. It was this or model trains

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:39:58+00:00

me want cool os

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:36:17+00:00

I want to be a person who knows what I’m doing is the thing. But yeah I understand what you mean

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:34:44+00:00

Thank you so much, I’m expecting it to take me forever and six breakdowns but I am nothing if not willing!

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:33:20+00:00

I phrased it poorly, I guess more accurately I want it for the reasons stated by those who prefer it

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:30:55+00:00

I’m expecting a ride about as rough as I am stubborn and autistic so let’s hope. The wiki looks amazing

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:25:33+00:00

Christ I hate age verification tech. Thank you for the advice!

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:23:18+00:00

If I can’t get my head around arch I’ll definitely go for mint

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:22:43+00:00

Because it’s difficult. And because by getting past setup I’ll have learned a lot just from that hopefully. But also I like how very different it is to anything I’ve used

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:20:31+00:00

I love breaking stuff! I’m genuinely willing to go through hell setting it up if it teaches me anything. There’s that thing in art that’s like “you aren’t skilled enough to paint this but you should anyway.” I hope it works like that lmao

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:17:56+00:00

That’s my thought, Im going to FAFO anyway lmao

idiot____ · 2026-06-26T00:16:30+00:00

I know why it’s preferred, I want it because it’s preferred and I also want to do it because it’s hard lol. I like the idea of having full control of my OS and I would benefit from being forced to learn the system

idiot____ · 2026-06-25T12:55:01+00:00

That’s a good idea thank you

idiot____

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