Im new to Arch. Im also not a complete retard and after following the basic wiki I can say that my desktop works just fine with minimal ricing involved. I can use it for pretty much every flatpak app plus yay package manager helper is a good bonus to compile latest software. I decided to make this leap because.1) I used Mint, Elementary, Ubuntu, Debian, Kubuntu distros but after tinkering with system files to solve weird issues and compiling my favourite software from source.2) I decided to compile new linux kernel for my specific specs and it was incredibly easy to make and replace my current kernel3) I hated how limited desktop configurations were out of the box for any stable distroSo far I love wayland on arch and the fact that their pacman provides latest up to date software. I didnt see any weird issues and everything seems to just work. Will I experience pain later on? I had a lot of pain when I was a noob and used noob operating systems. At some point something broke by itself.
>>108199899I went back to Debian from Arch going on a decade ago, but I don't necessarily think Arch is bad.The only issue I regularly hit was AUR packages breaking.Personally, I went back to Debian mostly because I do really minimal customization at this point, and basically all Linux software that is packaged has a .deb.I don't really care about GUI customization if I all I do is use MATE with a dark theme.
>>108199923Mate is awesome but on my laptop mate constantly had ui breaking right out of the box. It was very conservative on power tho.
>>108199944Weird, dunno why that would be, but I basically only use a desktop when I'm not working.
>>108199991I use debian for my homelab. Ill turn my gaming pc into a debian or Alma server soon as well. I think I can legitimately run multiple databases and storages on 64gb of ram for everyday use.
>>108199899Go around to forums and and ask AI how to fix a broken keyring, or what to do to fix your system when yay/pacman throws a "GPGME error: No data."run "sudo reflector --ipv4 -l 50 --threads 5 -f 15 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" before each update, or when you 404 on package installation.Never -Sy without updating.
>>108200058If my software update throws an error ill just use an alternative source.Haven't had keyring errors so far.
>>108200091This will eventually happen to you. It's just a pain to troubleshoot on the spot when it does. I haven't done it to myself in over a year, and have never figured out what I was doing to create the problem.
>>108200091To clarify, the gpgme error in question appears after pacman fails to sync repos, not an individual package source.
>>108199899>flatpak app>I used Mint>I love waylandsystemd-bootlickd
>>108199899You're a complete retard for falling for the linux desktop meme
>>108199899>Im new to Arch. Im also not a complete retard and after following the basic wiki I can say that my desktop works just fine with minimal ricing involved. I can use it for pretty much every flatpak app plus yay package manager helper is a good bonus to compile latest software.>I decided to make this leap because.>1) I used Mint, Elementary, Ubuntu, Debian, Kubuntu distros but after tinkering with system files to solve weird issues and compiling my favourite software from source.>2) I decided to compile new linux kernel for my specific specs and it was incredibly easy to make and replace my current kernel>3) I hated how limited desktop configurations were out of the box for any stable distro>So far I love wayland on arch and the fact that their pacman provides latest up to date software. I didnt see any weird issues and everything seems to just work. Will I experience pain later on? I had a lot of pain when I was a noob and used noob operating systems. At some point something broke by itself.
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