These are the kinds of things that remind us how far we’ve come :)

I never had anything NOT work on a laptop. I installed Linux on 5 of them.

I recently had 2/3 of drive space taken by btrfs snapshots. Still learning to manage them properly :D

Lol

Hope you find bros who appreciate your current hugs :)

This is not necessarily true and is dependent on your distro/whatever you use to install and update flatpaks.

But yes, this can be so.

Separately, through flatpak update.

Or together with everything through other tools. I go with pamac, it can be used both in CLI and GUI and update and install everything at once - repos, AUR and Flatpak.

Some people ask me why I use Flatpak on Arch. This is one of the reasons.

Oh, I should make it very, very clear: Ubuntu is a mess that newbies shouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. Comparing to Ubuntu, even Arch can look appealing for lack of confusion. Nothing that I say goes to support this abomination, and I did not mention it positively.

Generally though, most distros featuring KDE/GNOME will already have everything in one place - but, ironically, not Arch, which actually features three places to look for apps: the official repos for precompiled packages, Flatpaks, or AUR. And without something like pamac - a tool made by Manjaro team available through AUR - you can’t have all three in one interface or through same commands.

If I would choose distro by how easy it is to have everything in one place, this would likely be Fedora/OpenSUSE/Debian with Discover app store from KDE suite. Everything, be it native packages or Flatpaks, is in there, and you can easily select the source for any given app.

As per compatibility, I’m a strong proponent of Flatpaks. They are not significantly harder to manage than any other apps (in most cases, they don’t require any extra configuration), but they will help you avoid dependency issues and they also won’t get full access to your entire system, which is to me a disaster waiting to happen.

I started with Manjaro, and found myself in quite a predicament once I figured out what it means to have Arch under the hood. It was…a rude awakening.

Then I moved on to Debian and Fedora, and from there I gained enough knowledge to manage Arch systems. Now, I have Endeavour on my main computer and OpenSUSE Slowroll on my laptop.

For a casual experienced user - maybe, if bloat is a super big concern and ricing is an absolute priority.

For a casual newbie - please, no. Arch will immediately force the user to go through a lot of hoops, learn a million terminal commands to make basic changes, and overall it will be a very frustrating and non-intuitive experience. Also, rolling updates will inevitably lead to bugs here and there, and without the experience managing Linux systems, there’s only so much one can do to fix it.

Newbie Linux users shouldn’t go with Arch to begin with, even Endeavour or Garuda, unless they’re seeing it as a learning experience and have an IT background behind their back.

It’s not worth it for the average user, and honestly - even for most veteran users for that matter.

The great power of Arch comes with great responsibility to manage your system properly.

Super valid!

My point is: there’s little to brag about. But hey, I got that badge anyway.

Actually, yes. In many, many aspects Arch wiki requires a lot of prerequisite knowledge. Otherwise, you’ll be better off following online guides.

Why not? It takes a few hours at most, and I get a new interesting experience.

It is amazing if you’ve settled on your distribution of choice, though.

Very easy nowadays, even manually with all the guides, so you can cross that one off quite easily.

Arch Wiki is great, but it’s mostly oriented on people who already know something. And installation page should be very clearly written for absolute noobs.

Go ahead, install Arch on a VM (it’s not hard at all, actually!) and get your medal.

Then keep with Endeavour and enjoy your ride :D

Installing Arch manually is not hard, and there are plenty of step-by-step guides.

Figuring out what you need next and then managing this mess is more complicated.

Source: I installed Arch manually btw

I’ve used Debian for like half a year and this happened to me once, and to my buddy once as well.

Had to su

But why would someone use sudo to invoke su is out of my understanding.

Put Windows and Linux on two separate physical drives and this will never happen

It can only do so if both OS are on the same drive.

It is recommended to use two physical drives: one for Windows, one for Linux.

Never failed me in years.