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the "I use arch btw" people have won.... im going to the dark side
 
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Translation: setting up Arch Linux is really hard unless you're a wizard (just look at how many steps there are). After realising this, @bigboichin has gained a newfound respect for people who say "I use Arch Linux btw" at any opportunity even though they sound cocky (it's a meme)
Not really sure what he meant by "the dark side" but my guess is Windows or something worse.
 
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Translation: setting up Arch Linux is really hard unless you're a wizard (just look at how many steps there are). After realising this, @bigboichin has gained a newfound respect for people who say "I use Arch Linux btw" at any opportunity even though they sound cocky (it's a meme)
Not really sure what he meant by "the dark side" but my guess is Windows or something worse.
Genuinely just use archinstall it's existed for like half a decade at this point

The hardest part is just understanding what you want out of your file system and wheter yuo want btfrs ext4 or xfs as your filesystems and whether you want separate root an home partitions and swap and how much spacd to alloocate to each and i dunno installing cpu microcode is just istalling one package and changing one file

Arch is harder than gentoo for a first time linux user because the arch handbook doesnt make any assumptions about the user and assumes they know exactly what they want when they dont meanwhile gentoo takes much longer to install but the handbook just gives you each thing to type hand by hand When you're partitioning your disks in arch the arch handbook doesn't give you specific commands to write like "sudo fdisk /dev/sda" it gives you a big fuck you table of partitions and tells you "you can use fdisk, gdisk, cgdisk, fuck use whatever you want just partition the damn drives"
 
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Like sections 2.1 and 2.2 don't make sense to anyone who just wants clear cut commands to type out 2.1 is legit just a whole paragraph that no new linux user can understand

Also ignore 1.1 and 1.2 cause youre knew and wont understand that

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Disks
this is the holy grail for a new user
its long and technical but its not complicated because it holds your hand and explains everything youre doing
 
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Like sections 2.1 and 2.2 don't make sense to anyone who just wants clear cut commands to type out 2.1 is legit just a whole paragraph that no new linux user can understand

Also ignore 1.1 and 1.2 cause youre knew and wont understand that

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Disks
this is the holy grail for a new user
its long and technical but its not complicated because it holds your hand and explains everything youre doing
Thanks Mr. President
 

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