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    [–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 131 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've found two things to be true after moving to Arch:

    1. The users on forums and other help boards are actually quite willing to link directly to the thing you should have read before starting a new thread and are generally polite about it.

    2. The Arch Wiki is really that good, so you should read it.

    [–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I went straight from windows to Arch. I had used Ubuntu for a couple of weeks 10+ years ago. The arch wiki is a great resource and I was able to follow it to get up and running. However, there are things that aren't detailed enough (like literally hold your hand) on some things the wiki expects you to know. Now, maybe starting with Arch is not the best path, so that's probably mostly on me. I think that since there are so many different ways to do things, that following some of the instructions can be difficult for a user's specific case. Boot loaders where my biggest hangup early on since I didn't want to use Grub. Modifying boot loaders, setting up pacman hooks, learning and configuring different file systems, and learning how the config and system files is tough, and the wiki has all of the info to do it, but it's not always linear. I wish there were more practical code examples and/or short videos showing exactly what files to modify and how to do it right.

    [–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That’s all fair. I think everyone should go through that process once and then use archinstall forever after that.

    [–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    I probably could have watched a couple of 10 min videos before jumping into the wiki just to get an idea of the process b fore getting so deep. The initial setup instructions are pretty good, it's just those deviation points where you get to decide your path that gets confusing. I first did an old laptop and got that going after many hours. When I committed to my desktop, it went smoother, but I opted to go with btrfs and snapshots without Grub, and that took a hot minute to figure out. Now I have piece of mind from my snapshots, which is great for trying new things. So far, I've been very happy with my setup, and it's been very stable. Now I need to get Wayland and plasma 6 going with my Nvidia card. I got a bit hung up on setting the kernel mode stuff, and haven't really gone back in a while, so it's time.

    [–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

    You can only be getting voted down by the illiterate, because you are correct.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What about the programming socks? Is that true?

    [–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I'm running against the grain here, but I'm a cishet AMAB who doesn't work in tech and dresses in a gender-conforming manner, so not for me. However, from what I've seen from my friends who run Arch, the stereotype certainly isn't untrue.

    [–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    It's true for some people but it's not true for everybody. Some people really like to wear those long socks, and other people don't.

    [–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In all honesty, I use the arch manual to troubleshoot all distros. It is well written and has the info you need and no more.

    [–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    My steps for looking up something are usually

    1. Check the arch wiki
    2. Check the gentoo wiki
    3. Search for something related to my own distro
    4. Search for anything else
    5. Cry
    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    1. Start preparing your soul to reading Linux from scratch
    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    1. Compile shit yourself with custom made templates while crying and praying this n-th time make will NOT throw a dependency error.
    [–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    1. Learn programming, write your own (hacky) solution
    [–] far_university1990@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    1. Learn better programming, write your own proper solution, submit patch to maintainer
    [–] codeaffe 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    1. Learn even better programming, have a handful of jr devs write the feature so you can knock off for a beer.
    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    1. Make a lot of money working for the highest bidder and spiral into alcoholism.
    [–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    PSA: it stands for Read The FINE Manual

    Now canonically switched to "read the friendly manual" which I find more patronizing

    Read the Fucking Manual

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    reading comprehension is a very useful day to day skill.

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think zoomies just want to watch a video. I'm not trying to just insult them but I've had so many times people linking and recommending guide videos that are 15 minute long and full of dumb filler shit when an article would've been much better and quicker.

    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I can't stand technical videos for that reason. I just want the content and nothing more.

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I really dislike video tutorials. Just let me read a manual or the readme of a git repository.

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    "You want to actually read documentation? Hokay."

    *links to Discord*

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

    you sunova.... :D

    [–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This is why nerds who don't like literature class are missing out. If you can figure out the meaning of some inscrutable poem most documentation should be a breeze.

    [–] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    IME the skills needed to parse the poetry class stuff and the documentation wiki are distinct because I found that math, eng and software materials were always literal in what they were saying but I didn’t pick up on that because I was looking for a hidden meaning or secondary property or subtext. I had to rewire my brain for switching between different types of texts.

    I get that, and I thought the same until I started writing documentation myself and found people misinterpreting what I thought were very clear instructions. Every piece of writing has subtext and secondary meaning, even technical docs.

    Even understanding that the person writing the docs didn’t speak English as a first language helps me find clues to fill in the gaps that exist in all documentation. And that’s a skill I first picked up in literature class.

    But that’s just me.

    [–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Gotta admin the Arch Linux wiki is an impressive piece of work since long.

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

    Unlike the Nixos wiki which is utterly useless. Yes, I know why. Yes, I know they want to make a new better one.

    [–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

    arch and gentoo wikis are really, really good.

    Well, to be fair, it's an AMAZING manual.

    [–] TCB13@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

    Well... to be fair their manual is really well done and helps a ton of other people running on other distros.

    [–] oo1@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

    I use Arch, Browse The Wiki.

    [–] dunz@feddit.nu 10 points 1 year ago

    I used to have a t-shirt that said RTFM, so useful as a linux techπŸ˜ƒ. If someone asked something, I'd just point at the shirt jokingly and tell them where the documentation was

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

    So it works, works because Arch isn't for newbs

    [–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know liquid nitrogen cooling can get you some insane cinebench scores, but you can't just pop a liquid nitrogen cooler in your PC and expect to boost your framerates. You need to disable so many safety things and if you don't know why they were there in the first place you're going to permanently damage your CPU.

    Archlinux is that but for software and because it's software there's no physical barrier to entry. Arch is powerful, but if you don't know what you're doing you're better off with fedora or debian's hand holding.

    [–] onion@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My board lets me set vcore to 2V, what safety lol

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

    If you actually measure voltages (I have), you'll find out that that is not always true... in some cases, yes, in most cases, no. Depends from MB manufacturer and model. AMD chipsets usually allow this and the declared settings are what you can actually measure on the board. Intel though... nah, way too many failsafes in place to let you do whatever you want, even though the firmware will report that you've set it a certain way (Vcore = 2V, as in your case).

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    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Besides the installer, in what ways do Debian and Fedora hold your hand?

    • They come with apps like gnome software as standard, so you never interact with apt/rpm, flatpak or (barf) snap if you don't want to. You might not even know which you're installing.
    • They come with all sorts of configuration utilities like networkd (In my gentoo days I used wpa_supplicant directly and had no desktop integration with the wifi configuration. I was kinda stupid lol. Don't use a distro to impress people kids), gui tools to manage your users and groups and something called "firewall configuration" which I don't know the package for but is preinstalled on my fedora kinoite machine. (They are available in the arch repos, but unless you know what you're looking for you wouldn't think to install them.)
    • CUPS is preinstalled. If you don't use an "unbloated to the point of madness" distro like arch or gentoo you've probably never heard of CUPS or interacted with it directly, but it's the backbone of the linux (and macos) printing stack. In other words, printing should work out of the box wheras on arch that involves a trip to the arch wiki.
    • Integration packages are preinstalled. Things like the daemon that allows youtube videos in firefox tabs to be controlled by the play button on your keyboard if it has one.
    • Polkit is preinstalled, which allows applications to ask for sudo privileges and shows a popup box to the user asking their password. This is something you need to install manually on arch and gentoo, assuming you want that functionality and wouldn't prefer to just only allow privilege escalation via sudo.
    • Most packages which ship with systemd services on debian (eg apache2, snapd, docker) enable that service by default. On arch this is usually not the case.
    • 3rd party debian and fedora repos ship binaries so once you've added them to your config they function identically to core packages. Most AUR packages have to be compiled from source either manually or through a helper like yay. (Note: there aren't any helpers in the base system so you have to do at least one AUR build by hand before you get that part of the tech tree)
    • Even bash auto-completion is an extra package on arch. No really, open a terminal on debian and then type ls -- then double press tab. It should suggest valid arguments. This isn't a thing on arch unless you install the bash-completion package
    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

    They have far less failure points. Also, the AUR. None of them have anything remotely like that, which is also a big stability issue, but hey, it's bleeding edge, so you should be prepared for that.

    Debian is more or less like RHEL/Rocky... with RHEL being even more stable and taking even less risks. They update only if they have to and only security related issues. Otherwise, RHEL is feature fixed. You have to upgrade to a new version to get a new set of libraries and applications. Debian... yeah, they're also feature fixed, but they sometimes update certain things that are required by most users, since Debian is also considered a desktop distro, not just a server distro.

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] mihnt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Usually I'm not too phased by having to read something to learn, but damn if learning how to span video games over 3 monitors has been a daunting task for me.

    xrandr is something I've never been able to wrap my head around.

    [–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

    xrandr is something I've never been able to wrap my head around.

    Arandr?

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    [–] dukatos@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It was like that 25 years ago. Same for Linux as for FreeBSD.

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    BSD users are even worse than Linux users if you ask me... back in the day I mean, have no idea if things have changed the past 10 years or so.

    [–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

    One thing I have learned using OpenBSD is actually reading the manpages first. After an install there's a friendly mail from Theo, then afterboot(8) and intro(8) answers a lot of questions.

    [–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago

    Let's see how this goes - I'm almost there but I chickened out and got manjaro first to get a taste, next mission is pure arch!