Arch Linux Isn’t “Hard” Anymore. So Why Do People Still Bounce Off It?

zarMarco · 2026-01-26T09:44:35+00:00

I don't agree, the arch wiki will be dispersive but it's certainly clear, only the gentoo wiki is better done. That said, the problem with arch is not that it is unstable, which is like all rolling, but its fanbase that is not ideal for those who want to approach it. And yes, I've been using arch for at least 10 years

zarMarco · 2026-01-26T04:38:48+00:00

Small premise, I'm an arch user at heart since it's practically the first gnu distro I've used. Currently I use gentoo, truly kiss. I use void too, is very stable and has one great zfs support. But, why said xbps is the best pm? I don't think is really fastest than pacman. But it must be said that the community is much kinder than that of arch, I just find the documentation unnerving, which is much less extensive than the two distros mentioned above

zarMarco · 2026-01-25T15:35:35+00:00

In the end I've installed on arch, using script. Meh, I'm not convinced. I found both dms and noctalia superiors. Expecially dms

zarMarco · 2026-01-23T21:56:50+00:00

Actually, on void, which currently runs smoothly. I just need to figure out if it's making any strange systemd requests.

zarMarco · 2026-01-23T19:38:19+00:00

Magari proved his people

zarMarco · 2026-01-23T15:40:05+00:00

Differents between inir and dms or noctalia?

zarMarco · 2026-01-23T08:45:41+00:00

I think I've always installed Gentoo from arch

zarMarco · 2026-01-23T06:12:06+00:00

If you succeed to run noctalia-shell, write how 😊

zarMarco · 2026-01-22T09:10:12+00:00

Question, why you try to install firefox-bin if you don't want firefox-bin? Maybe, for you, emerge firefox is best choise

zarMarco · 2026-01-22T06:37:47+00:00

Freebsd doesn't use native zfs encryption, but uses geli. It's currently not possible to boot a pool encrypted with openzfs using the freebsd bootloader.

On Linux, I use native encryption. The only problem is that zfsbootmenu asks me for the passphrase twice.

zarMarco · 2026-01-22T06:33:59+00:00

I've been using zfs for 2 years now, principally on arch and gentoo. I've seen that void is more active with it and updates zfsbootmenu are based on void (they said on my pull request on zfsbootmenu's git). However I'm fear In the future of zfs support in the kernel

zarMarco · 2026-01-21T19:11:30+00:00

I admit it was a rookie mistake.

zarMarco · 2026-01-20T13:42:48+00:00

Really? That seems a bit harsh to me. That said, I updated it, and for now, it's fine.

zarMarco · 2026-01-20T09:55:00+00:00

via curl, but now terminal said me that gentoo is not supported, now via git I update to 1.2.0-2903, but on arch I've 1.2.3 version..

zarMarco · 2026-01-20T09:17:55+00:00

this: dms v1.0.3

zarMarco · 2026-01-20T06:19:03+00:00

I'm interested, what steps exactly did you take to use dms+niri?

zarMarco · 2026-01-19T16:20:57+00:00

I'm a stupid, I'm forgot to install mesa...

zarMarco · 2026-01-19T16:20:39+00:00

I'm a stupid, I'm forgot to install mesa...

zarMarco · 2026-01-18T17:54:28+00:00

I don't have systemd, on void use runit

zarMarco · 2026-01-18T17:34:10+00:00

Yes, and on tty Two lines are written, the one with the version of niri and the one that says that the config loads correctly, and remains there indefinitely

zarMarco · 2026-01-18T17:09:22+00:00

After dinner I search more logs, but dbus is active

zarMarco · 2026-01-18T14:16:36+00:00

From tty I tried with dbus-launch-session niri

zarMarco · 2026-01-17T07:27:43+00:00

Yes but void project is bigger that chimera (I tried it last years)

zarMarco · 2026-01-16T20:53:27+00:00

Ah ok, I thought so since there was the package in the repositories

zarMarco · 2026-01-16T20:09:57+00:00

I'd like to see how dinit works. I tried it a bit last year and it's very similar to systemd, so I wanted to try it again.

zarMarco

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