I like how everyone pretends installing Arch (prior to them making an install script) is an achievement like LFS, as if it's not standard disk partitioning and then literally four or five steps that you can pretty much just copy & paste and are mostly ...
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I like how everyone pretends installing Arch (prior to them making an install script) is an achievement like LFS, as if it's not standard disk partitioning and then literally four or five steps that you can pretty much just copy & paste and are mostly automated. The only real difference is it doesn't/didn't have a GUI to walk you through the partitioning and the manual parts of the four or five steps
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And “the default install doesn't have a GUI” as if
sudo pacman -S plasma
with zero other steps is the hardest thing in the world to do (I'm sure installing any other DE is equivalent, and WMs don't need any more configuration than they otherwise would) -
@nytpu In defence of the newbie, it's a very different experience to the corporate hell-controlled operating systems that people have been used to. We have to allow for culture shock.
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@kestral Yeah, and I noted elsewhere that learning to locate and follow documentation yourself without hand-holding is a pretty significant achievement in learning How To Computer
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@nytpu For sure - and I hope that in time those folk stop saying "this could be easier" and start going "oh wow look at the power and flexibility"
... or switch to Ubuntu.