Are you trying to do it "the arch way"? Or are you not able to get the archinstall script to work?
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End parenthesis should have gone after "to". Maybe that's why you're struggling?
Or perhaps they truly Arch?
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I Arch btw
misplaced parentheses often cause computer problems
You should try Mint.
But then how could I get the smug transbian satisfaction of letting people know I spent 48 hours on this pointless pursuit?
I really enjoy plasma on my arch set up. It is a very intuitive gui for me
Edit: i still use command line for updates and stuff but it has a flatpack app for stuff too. Just not everything is on there
Kde plasma is bae, but this go round I'm trying out awesomewm. Hypothetically. Haven't gotten to that step yet, fighting obscure chip bs
Yeah, i had some issues with some hardware early on. Got it solved eventually but it involved switching a lot of stuff to amd
Eww Manjaro
It was a great system to learn the arch user repository on! That and the fact I still have it on a halftop of mine are the only good things I have to currently say about it
The only good thing manjaro did for me was getting me comfortable enough with cli to switch to endeavouros.
And now I have a healthy distrust for any distro that does not have a GMT -8 timezone in its installer list.
Manjaro is the Linux Mint of Arch linux (non derogatory). its stable but let's you enjoy the benefits of arch but you you're tired after work and don't want to have to tweak your bspwm dotfiles for the thousandth time because a program doesn't respect your rules
I've done my years of carefully tweaked TWMs and manually installed Arch but seriously after 8-9 hours of dealing with computers, you dont want to have to deal with random stupid issues and Manjaro is perfect for that
CachyOS also falls into this category. It's basically Arch (btw) but frankly everything just works without fiddling with anything. Also gaming, but if that's not what you do, this is still just as great of an option.
That's actually what I'm using right now! CachyOS with Plasma 6 is just perfect
Manjaro is stable when it's freshly installed, but if you expect it to "just work" and don't read changelogs and stuff, it'll quickly fall apart after a few updates.
Have you tried unplugging it and then plugging it back in?
May I suggest an immutable Fedora spin OS (silverblue, bazzite, aurora etc) with an Arch distrobox. All the fun, very few of the headaches, break Arch, blow it away and start fresh (back up an installed packages list).
Headaches are the fun part wtf.
I just got done installing CachyOS after a 3 week nightmare. It works now and everything seems like it's working OK, except for my audio. I have a 5.1 speaker setup and CachyOS doesn't send the LFE signal to the sub correctly. Instead, it splits it across all the speakers, making it sound weird and almost inaudible. In Windows, this is fixed by checking a box labeled "bass management" in the audio properties. In Arch, or possibly all Linux, it requires multiple arcane rituals, none of which I've gotten to work right, not in the least because the documentation for the fixes is often incomplete or outright directs you to use options that simply don't exist in the software. I don't understand why this couldn't have also been a checkbox here. At this point, it's the last remaining hurdle that's stopping me from switching to Linux full time.