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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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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.
Thanks mate
at some point; that high you're feeling will become self sustaining as you put more score marks in the victory column
Next step, flash my phone and daily the penguin everywhere...
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.
Fair shout, I didn't find the all in one place correct guide this time around, but it came together from scraps of advice found all over so credit where it's due to the community. Liking arch so far, running it on an older machine and had been using endeavour os (so not a massive change) but instead of stripping things out of it until it broke I was keen to build it until it had only what I wanted and see just what I can live without.
i mean, still. using any CLI tool for the vast majority of people is a nonstarter
Now try Linux From Scratch.
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 don't know what falls into 'ancient' dabbling in Linux land has shown me some amazing aging tech that people are fighting on with, for me it's a new to me Lenovo D30 from I think 2011. Because the macbook air 2016 (the device that got me into Linux in the first place when it stopped being supported) finally died the other day.
Those at least started with Windows7 back then. I have a laptop here that still has that "Windows XP ready" sticker. And a PC from -as mentioned- pre-UEFI times with some hybrid system (basically BIOS with 64bit compatibility) that started originally with a classic MBR partitioned disk.
But hey... that's still nothing in terms of Linux support. Recent kernels still support (but are soon to drop) 486-architecture.
That's awesome
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.