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Ricaz

@ Ricaz @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • Upgrading, like from Debian 12 to 13. It's too complex, and if you install anything out of the ordinary (which you have to if you want packages from this decade), things get even more complicated.

    I've used the same Arch installation for 14 years and only had issues when we switched to from sysvinit to systemd in 2012 because I didn't read the news. Easily fixable though

  • Arch btw...

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  • After using Arch for 13 years I just learned what archinstall is..

    Just install it normally, it's literally like 10 commands.

  • Arch btw...

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  • You mean "can you remove systemd"? Short answer: yes.

    Should you do it? Only if you're fucking insane.

    Just use Artix if you care that much

  • Learning Japanese

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  • TYSKLAND

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • There's no graphical installer officially, no. There are many Arch derivatives with installers though, like CachyOS.

    Installing Arch is literally running like 10 commands, and it's all very well documented.

    1. Put your Archiso USB stick in and reboot
    2. Format your disks if needed, mkfs
    3. Mount root and boot partitions
    4. Run pacstrap to install base system
    5. Generate fstab
    6. In chroot, set time and locale(s), set password, install bootloader
    7. Choose/install a network manager, like systemd-networkd
    8. Reboot

    Now you're running Arch. Make a user and install a DE, optionally.

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • And when in doubt, just check the Arch wiki, it's a gold mine

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • Comparing Arch and Gentoo is wild. Arch is so much more simple and well documented.

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • less likely to break during an update

    In my experience, Ubuntu and Debian are by far the most likely to break during an upgrade

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • It's super easy to start a VM to try.

    Just install qemu (and optionally enable KVM), then to run eg. Ubuntu installer:

     
        
qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -enable-kvm \
  -m 2G \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 2 \
  -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso \
  -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
  -boot d \
  -vga virtio \
  -display gtk

    After you install it, run the VM:

     
        
qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -enable-kvm \
  -m 2G \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 2 \
  -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
  -boot c \
  -vga virtio \
  -display gtk

    Or use libvirt, like a layer on top to make things much simpler. I use virt-manager for GUI and virsh on command line.

  • Yahoo Answers rule

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  • There was also a great proposal to use kiloseconds.

    We already use 15 minutes (16.67 minutes = 1ksec) a lot in regular speech. My language has a word for it (kvarter) which is used all the time.

    There used to be cool website listing all the benefits but it's been down for a few years :(

  • Signal massively downloaded amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark

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  • Facebook Messenger also claims to be end-to-end encrypted... There's literally no way of knowing if they can decrypt your messages.

    The only way to know is to host it yourself and preferably use post-quantum secure encryption.

  • Protect and Serve

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  • Then where would the profitable incarceration enterprise prison get its slave labor?

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • Hah, didn't know that

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • Danish is closer, we call it Tyskland

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • Most Dutch people I met just call it Holland. We do so in Denmark as well

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • Willingly switching from Arch to Debian says a lot about a person

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • The only people who use Debian are the people who started with Debian

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • I will never understand people who willingly subject themselves to Debian when there are so many better alternatives

  • China Has a ‘Stealth Playbook’ To Carve Up Russia

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  • Who is moaning?