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    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    So that's which its called pacman

    [–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    duh... it's a [pac]kage [man]ager. Why else would it be called that?

    [–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

    clearly not to violate any trademarks

    [–] Ooops@feddit.org 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    echo "Defaults insults" | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers.d/custom.conf

    [–] Ooops@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

    Defaults badpass_message="You shall not pass!"

    [–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I use endeavourOS because of auto installed yogurt (I am lazy)

    [–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

    sry, but I'm lactose intolerant. So I guess, another win for CachyOS.

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    is yogurt still developed? I thought it was dead a long time ago and everyone went to yay

    [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's been yay on endeavours for its entire existence I think.

    Install arch the arch way once or twice. After that use endeavouros because I don't need to spend the time.

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    [–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Hi fellow EOS user, this is my first time hearing about computer yogurt.

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    [–] SAF77@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I use mint because I'm too old and impatient for the more setup-heavy stuff.

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I can't believe nobody else has pointed out.... BRO when you set ILoveCandy also SET

    color

    make that shit legit. I use arch, as you can tell, btw

    [–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It is set but GIFs simply hate colors.

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

    256 color limit is a harsh mistress

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    [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yeah thats kinda my problem with arch.... ive never found it easy to use or useful. Every actual usecase other than it being "cool" is filled by distros much more adapted. Actually want a system from scratch? Gentoo. Want to make it deployable and dependable? Nixos. Want something rock stable? Debian. Arch never had any appeal for me(focus on me here).

    [–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You want little bit of the ability to customize everything without having to compile from scratch every time? You want a well documented system that has excellent documentation and a community that digs into most edge cases? You want upstream fixes ASAP because your team of volunteers are struggling to backport fixes?

    It has its place. I'm saying this as someone who uses Debian and red hat derivatives extensively.

    To me slow roll, tumbleweed and fedora were good contenders for the same slot but none of them let you completely fuck around with the design like Arch does.

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    [–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    I like it because im new to linux and it is VERY well documented. Ive learned more in the last year than the last 20 on windows

    Edit: also v lightweight. I dont mind doing a little extra work to know what my pc is doing

    [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Yeah the documentation is just amazing. Even on nixos i often use the arch wiki to find things cause a lot of it applies to linux generally.

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    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

    arch is a little bit of each of those things

    [–] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Love the playfulness and the name itself...but I'm lazy and apt is shorter and quicker to type. I'm torn...

    [–] albbi@piefed.ca 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    There's 'yay' which is a Pacman helper. And honestly I love typing it because it makes me happy

    [–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago

    or install yay and you don't even have to sudo (it still asks but you dont have to type it)

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    [–] felsiq@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Apt is shorter, sure, but apt update && apt install … is much longer than pacman -S … so you should definitely switch

    /jk

    [–] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

    I am toyimg with the idea to switch my Thinkpad over to a new distro...so maybe I will ;)

    [–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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    [–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

    I use Cachy for the same reason :P

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Wait is that pacman? Had it always done that?

    [–] Flipper@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Its a config option. Add ILoveCandy in the options.

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    That's revolutionary, I need to switch back to arch in this case

    [–] meow@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Probably meth, if they are thinking of switching back to arch.

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    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] meow@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    And why did you switch? Id love to know :3

    [–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

    Hmmm I don't remember the specifics but I think some parts of the system broke on me and I didn't have the patience to fix it. So I switched and have been very happy thus far running Fedora KDE.

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    [–] funbreaker@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I usually use yay but I do appreciate the whimsy in pacman

    [–] felsiq@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago

    Yay uses pacman for the official repositories, so you can still use this setting if you want

    [–] Winter_Oven@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    it does look amazing

    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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