• g7s
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    1 year ago

    You learn more about the components of your system, and therefore learn more about fixing things or debugging what could be wrong. Arch is only difficult once.

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      1 year ago

      I wanted to say exactly this.

      I started out on Ubuntu and it was this scary thing that just worked. If something broke id run to google and see what I did wrong and blindly follow answers that added a lot of crap to my system. I was so afraid of poking anything that lay outside my /home.

      Eventually I hopped around a bit and landed on Arch after a few other systems that never really seemed right.

      3 years later If I break something I can actually understand why most of the time and if I cant, the Arch forums explain what I need.

      Using arch made me slow down trying to fix stuff because there was less to break. And if something broke, it was something that I installed myself and thus knew about. (Apart from some really horrible python and js that refused to be purged back to the fires of hell)

      All in all Id never go back to a hand- holdy system, Its my system, yes its wonky as hell sometimes, but I know whats going on there and on tge off chance something vreaks on a deadline, ive got an arch stick with all my important scripts to reinstall my system if needs be.

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        1 year ago

        Very well phrased, thanks for sharing your story :)