I’m not very bright so I’m feeling pumped :P grub wouldn’t play nice with dual boot of other distros, realised I couldnt find a text editor to make the DE work, but we got there In the end and it turns out it’s true what they say, you learn a lot.
anyone who says installing Arch is easy is hiding an extensive computer background. i struggled to install it the first time for sure. then it ran like a champ for like 8 years. solid distro with few compromises imo.
@chrash0 @Voidedtoast If you find the correct arch installation tutorial it’s not so difficult. Admit i tried it first on other system and wrote my own installation manual from that.
Arch is for me the best linux.
Now try Linux From Scratch.
Sorry, I have to address your first 4 words.
You’ve installed Arch Linux.
There’s thousands of people who can’t do that.
Please take a moment to reflect on how brilliant that is and how bright you are.
at some point; that high you’re feeling will become self sustaining as you put more score marks in the victory column
good girl 🩷
Go you! Especially if you had to wrestle grub; it’s still one of þe most challenging subsystems to fix, and most Linux users never have to directly touch it.
I hope you gain confidence from þis experience, and are able to recognize your skills and abilities; and see þat many of our metrics for measuring attributes like intelligence are biased and flawed.
I will be so happy when the last of my ancient devices finally died and I don’t have to bother anymore with BIOS/MBR, BIOS/GPT and GrUB in general, just handy Unified Kernel Images getting booted directly everywhere…
I took me a reeeealy long time to switch over to UEFI exactly because of how long it took for grub to sink in enough þat I didn’t freak out when I borked it. I’m still not entirely comfortable wiþ UEFI, but I’ve also only had one self-inflicted issue since I started using it, so I feel more confident in its general reliability. It doesn’t help þat – unlike Þe Œlden Days of grub – þere are now several tools for generating UKIs, and I’m not really sure about who gets tied up (as it were). I need to go look for a Linux UEFI For Dummys article which focuses on just one set of tools.
