edit: WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKING MEMELORD FOUND MY ADDRESS AND SENT ME THIGH HIGHS AND CAT EARS?

  • Gonzako@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 days ago

    I do use an arch-based distro tho I’ve never like gotten the bad sides? Maybe my distro maintainers are just that good

    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      1·
      4 days ago

      CatchyOS is based on Arch, so it shouldn’t be too hard. I have never used CatchyOS so this is from the perspective of a Fedora user who used ArchInstall.

      Arch is quite barebones in the sense it doesn’t do GUIs for install and shit, it is terminal centric, that being said it is very fast and efficient and effectively you build your own set up (even in archinstall). Here’s what I will say though (idk how much you’ve looked into it or what your skill level is)…

      • If your installing over wifi, iwctl is how you connect to a wifi network. There’s plenty of tutorials on this and there’s the Wiki, so there’s that. It’s actually a piece of piss once you understand it.
      • archinstall is your friend.
      • File systems look confusing? Just use btrfs.
      • In Audio systems you can choose what audio system you want, but I just use pipewire.
      • Don’t forget to set your network options to “network manager”.
      • Under profile, you can choose if you wanna set up a desktop, server, or whatever and in desktop you can choose whatever DE or WM you want. You won’t get the full suite like with other distros, but you will get enough to operate your choice.
      • waybar isn’t installed automatically of if you are installing hyprland or such, bare that in mind. You will need this to access the nm-applet. Also you can fix the missing symbols in waybar by installing otf-font-awesome either before in Additional Packages or after with sudo pacman -S otf-font-awesome
      • You can choose from the whole archlinux package repo in additional packages and here you can install anything additional you might need. I would recommend flatpak if you can’t find what you want via pacman, whatever VPN you use, steam, a browser (take your pick) and waybar and otf-font-awesome.
      • The wiki and DuckDuckGo are your friends.
      • If you are not used to WMs but wanna use one, install a DE as a backup.
      • Every morning/every evening/before you shut down for the night, open up a terminal and type sudo pacman -Syu to look for updates and install them. There’s no “Updates available” notification for system shit here.
          • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            I fall pretty squarely into the script kiddie category compared to a lot of people on here and arch wikis has been an incredibly valuable resource.

            “I want to do X like Y. Surely someone much of done this by now.” Arch wiki: “funny you should mention that. Here is free documentation that is pretty up to date, has lots of detail and examples, but don’t drown you.”

            Seriously, I look at red hat and debian documentation and little ADHD brain hamster just strokes the fuck out on his wheel. Arch wiki is a comfortable ride. It’s just…digestible if that makes any sense.

    • Yttra@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      Fedora was also my first choice, but the allure of the AUR was too strong at the time and I didn’t last a month…

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Selinux makes me homicidal and fedora always seems to be choking on….something. But it’s the most updated stable thing I can find.

        The AUR is irresponsible. Put a wili entry showing how to did something. Don’t just write a script and post it that you KNOW nobody is actually going to comb over.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Im leaning into it because arch linux on arm stuff is a joke compared to the x86 mainstream stuff. Fedora treats ARM as an equal.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      I feel this. I had to give up on connecting to my home wifi on windows server edition.

      This was right after I daily drove openbsd for 2 months. I was connecting to PEAP encrypted networks using wpa_supplicant and now I couldn’t connect to my phone’s hotspot.