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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
What are the delay times - hours? Maybe a couple of days at most?
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Originally posted by Britoid View Post
If you do rpm-ostree reset and then rebase, then re-layer it should let you do all that without needing to do the reboot in the middle.
Try not to use ex lifefs, it will cause more issues than it's worth, there's a reason behind --i-like-danger. Once you've got your base install done, try and use podman/toolbox/flatpak for everything else.
Because I'm a KDE user I'm using Siosm's wonderful Kinoite variant and I've been installing things breeze-gtk, xsettingsd (so Flats use breeze-dark), the RPM-Fusion replacements for Netflix, and other stuff that I think the base Kinoite system is missing. Flatpak and containers are great and all, but that's not where xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu comes from or goes
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Originally posted by lumks View Post
For Manjaro sometimes days, sometimes Weeks and sometimes month where Stable is in freeze because they cant get the testing repo to a state where they want to ship it and in the end fuck it up anyway.
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Originally posted by Almindor View PostFor those wishing for an installer it could be simple to take the old Antergos installer and use that. Just make sure wipe out all their repo stuff.
Archlinux Ultimate Install. Contribute to helmuthdu/aui development by creating an account on GitHub.
Not graphical but still reasonably easy to use.
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I had a play recently with Anarchy Linux. It's basically a fancy script for installing Arch, which takes quite a lot of the pain out of it. I've not actually run it baremetal yet - currently not got a box spare I can lose for a few days if it all goes horribly wrong - but it has been generally well behaved with some rather non-standard VM settings I use when trying-to-break-testing-OS...
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Originally posted by muncrief View PostI recently switched from Manjaro to Arch and have been very happy with it so far. My only suggestion is that they at least offer a default GUI installer as an option.
I mean my goodness, I'm an old time hardware/firmware/software designer and even I find it an unnecessarily complicated process. Yes, we can all use the command line, and I guess for some that's impressive or a mark of superiority. But I can also do long division by hand, but use a calculator instead because doing long division by hand in the year 2020 would be silly
In any case, once you get it installed and set up, and research and fix the many quirks in setting up a full desktop system from such a low level, Arch really is awesome. My anecdotal experience is that it seems much faster than Manjaro, and there's more flexibility when attempting to install or experiment with the latest Linux features and developments. Manjaro does a great job of being an easier to use bleeding edge distro, but some of those ease of use features like kernel and GPU driver management can cause difficulty when attempting to utilize modified kernels and drivers.
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Thanks for all your hard work Aaron. Not using arch at the moment but will be going back soon (TM). I do miss the Ncurses installer (more as a check list than anything else). Having a security person as the lead tho can only be a good thing.
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Originally posted by andrewjoy View PostThanks for all your hard work Aaron. Not using arch at the moment but will be going back soon (TM). I do miss the Ncurses installer (more as a check list than anything else). Having a security person as the lead tho can only be a good thing.
Famous last words?
(No, I'm not being serious and no, I don't have a dog in the fight)
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