Last time I installed arch the archinstall didn’t exist in its current form yet… It’s been working fine since then. Arch truly is eternal in that you never need to reinstall.
That’s called a Rolling Release. It will periodically bless you with a broken system to test your sysadmin skills.
(brace for all the “bUt It’S sTaBLe FoR mE” replies)
bUt It’S sTaBLe FoR neiGH
Mine breaks the Wifi (and ethernet) every time I update on my t480. I don’t know why.
I give you a thumbs up.
When I was running XFCE with Arch, my Installation was several years old and I only had a handful of incidents that needed manual Intervention, which was very manageable for me, so at the end of the day, it was the most stable system I had by far compared to other distributions I used, although I had a Nvidia GPU.
When I switched to Plasma with Wayland on my newer AMD only machine, I constantly had issues especially with Plasma after updates. And these were things I could not fix but rather needed to find workarounds until it got fixed with a later update (for example NTFS support on Dolphin not working properly, panels crashing constantly, configurations that partly got reset etc.)
Arch can be really stable but only if you use conservative Software for your DE/WM and critical infrastructure.
It truly is stable for me 😅
Instead of following screen prompts I followed on screen prompts we are not the same.
I installed arch without arch install many times and im always still nervous and confused by the boot loader instructions… But these days, I use archinstall.
Now i havent actually reinstalled my arch in 3 years though. Running smooth. Normally i like that feeling of a clean system very much but its so time consuming.
Im also using Ubuntu systems and its infuriating how i cant get the latest version of certain software on older Ubuntus like 22.04.
Until you run an apt command that reinstalls snapd because so many official packages are snaps.
Isn’t there a way to blacklist packages in apt?
apt-mark hold snapdYou can also pin it with a negative priority like Mint does.
I once exited vim.
Lisan al Gaib!
That’s easy. Just hold the computer’s power button.
I keep this book [1] on my desk at all times on the chance I get trapped.
[1] https://dl.acm.org/cms/asset/bf908d05-1855-4b65-b9df-cade5294e428/557970.cover.gif
now do ed!
We found the chosen one!
I was able to rescue GRUB from memory 10 years ago.
Okay that sounds pretty impressive
Me who just installed installed EndeavourOS via their live disk because it’s stupidly simple, arch based, and I can read the arch wiki when I have issues.
Endeavour gang rise up
Seriously though it’s glaringly straightforward and all the benefits of arch without the slog. I’ve been happy with it for years now.
There a few of us
Dozens!
I also switched from pre-archinstall arch to Endeavor. I might try archinstall at some point but I’m currently fine with Endeavor
I installed Fedora without installer. It was more “fun” than arch
Why did you go this way, if I may ask?
I installed my fingerprint drivers only to unlock keyring with my password every time I unlock.
i understand my nixos configuration
I have an acquaintance who walked me through his setup. I was impressed, mostly at how many little things he needed to have done to get it to how he likes it.
Anyone can install Mint, that’s hardly a big deal.
I once accidentally deleted python from my gentoo system (needed for emerge) and rescued it.
Wow, I did that on CentOS and reinstalling the OS was the only sure shot way I could figure
How did you do that? (Both "that"s I guess!)
I suppose to rescue it you can grab a portable Python release and use that to emerge a proper one, another option would be booting into a live environment. And to cause this,
--unmergeand--rage-cleanare your friends. No idea how you’d do that “accidentally”, though.
You are the chosen one.
I don’t use Arch, btw
Finally a correct usage of this meme format :D
Joke boss was joke.
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I too have replaced hard drives
As long as you didn’t use
format c:for that, I’m fine with it.
