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Laughs in Endeavour

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I can honestly say that I ran Slackware as my daily driver for almost two years...

Never again.

Now I run easy distros. Much less stress overall.

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- I ran Slackware as my daily driver for almost two years
  
  Why? ...How?
  
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  I've been running slackware as my main os since 94. I was never able to get really used to any other Linux distro and I saw them all. I run it in my home pc, in my work servers, my work notebook. Best distro ever.
  
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  I miss playing with Slack. It was the first distro I ever got Steam running.
  
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I use Arch... On my Steamdeck

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- I game on Arch too
  
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- We're so elite!
  
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I got my merit badge after setting it up once. That's enough for me.

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- Did the same. I pretty much had to redo every single step, sometimes multiple times, because I did not fully understand what I was doing. But I had a running system in the end with everything working as far as I could tell.
  
  Then I immediately formatted everything and installed Endeavor, because I just didn't trust myself not having done anything wrong.
  
  It did help with understanding though. Some things aren't as scary anymore and I understand the arch wiki much better now.
  
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Guys, why are you constantly making fun of arch. It really is a straightforward, stable and user friendly distro. The wiki is amazing and it’s very easy to find help even when you run into problems.

Oh, I use arch btw.

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- I wouldn't really call it stable, more just stable enough
  
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  In my 8 years of using Arch as daily driver, it has broken only couple of times for me, and usually I can find the fixes in the forums. Ubuntu on the other hand has lead to so much pain.
  
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🔦 Arch docker container running on Ubuntu. 🔦

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- Nah, that sounds like torture. Anybody willing to have that kind of setup shouldn't be messed with, they're clearly unstable.
  
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  Yeah, I don't know why I'd run Arch containers on Ubuntu. I can already get the latest software via Snap and Docker. 🫰
  
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No pun intended

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Lmao I feel personally attacked

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I feel attacked

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No, I don't use 2 weeks late Arch. To me that just defeats the point.

I use Arch btw.

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RIP Antergos

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- Long live EndeavourOS.
  
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nah don't worry, Manjaro users will tell you they use Manjaro

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I never used Manjaro or Arch (I am a fedora user). Can someone please explain the joke?

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- Arch takes a lot of manual configuration to make it work, hence providing some bragging rights about using it. Manjaro is a fork that has your typical GUI user-frienly installer that does everything for you, therefore you "proudly using arch" has no substance as you did zero work.
  
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  I wonder why I keep getting the advice to use Arch, then? Everyone on the Linux forum questions me using fedora and says arch makes more sense and is easier.
  
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- Manjaro is a fork of Arch with the aim to provide a good out-of-the-box experience.
  
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  Disgusting...
  
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- If arch Linux is supposed to be edgy and hard to use or install, Manjaro takes that edgy hard to use image and softens it up into a Ubuntu type distro that is based on arch but tends to run behind on updates by a little bit compared to arch.
  
  Basically they nerd version of Linux stolen valor.
  
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- manjaro is based on arch
  
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  Manjaro is based period
  
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Manjaro Users: I could never be bothered to follow the steps for installing on the arch wiki.

Manjaro Users When Something Breaks: Gotta go check the arch wiki & forums.

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I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

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I use Arch btw........in a distrobox inside ubuntu.

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I recommend Evdeavouros instead of Manjaro ;)

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i use manjaro btw

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I use Debian btw.

yep go ahead and neg this comment Arch people

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- You could do a better attention seeking job than this
  
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Lol everyone knows nixos is the latest in disto high fashion

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- I use Fedora btw. It'll never go out of fashion, Cos it's never been in fashion
  
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I use Arch, BTW, but also Gnome. So I am still lacking some nerd points.

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It's not as bad as it used to be, i use arch btw.

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Debian Etch - Debian Squeeze then OpenBSD 5.5 - current

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i use archinstall btw....

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Meanwhile me with OpenSuse Thumbleweed ...

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No love for Gentoo...

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Lights off: I use Arch BTW Lights on: I installed Arch using archinstall BTW

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- Who cares :/
  
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Subtle way to call manjaro users gay

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What a vucking great social network this Lemmy is.

I clicked "subscribe" to your community or whatever the vuck it's called and for two weeks I've been looking at "Pending". Is this such a vucking fediverse achievement that I don't understand?

Now for the topic at hand. If you have to choose between Arch and Manjaro, you have to choose Arch. 100% none of you will need to thoroughly partition your hard drive, because none of you will bother moving /home to another partition on the drive. And the main difficulty will be setting up the wifi, solved by reading the man pages. Unfortunately they are without pictures, so you will have to work hard.

Manjaro has compromised itself so many times that I don't understand people who use it.

Although no, I do understand you, my little friends. Manjaro has a graphic installer.

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- This post was in lemmy.world which is extremely overloaded at the moment
  
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- Its a known bug. Who knew reddit will fuck up? Give it some time, it'll be much better!
  
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  Give it some time
  
  I heard that story somewhere. It took Reddit fifteen years to become comfortable using it. Are you ready to wait?
  
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- I'm an impulsive updater. I see an update, I update. Arch was able to change my plans for the day on many occasions into shiiiit I need this to work again so I can do actual work. So I compromised and installed Manjaro for edge but with less bleeding. YEAH😎
  
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  You'd be surprised. If you update on impulse, there is a great risk that pacman will break your system. There are clever people who don't update Arch for half a year and then start upgrading it overnight. This is even worse, because the risk of your system dying from an accident increases many times over. Good thing I don't use Arch btw for work. Although no, Arch+dwm is on my old netbook, but I can't find it for a long time.
  
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- Damn, subscribing might've not worked but 52 people made sure that the downvote button did
  
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