Arch Linux – Best Tips for Beginners?

[fxdave@lemmy.ml]

Read thoroughly. Can't agree more.

[jumuta@sh.itjust.works]

i don't think i went wiki diving really, i just followed what it said but it gave me a nice overview of what does what in an arch system that i could expand on later

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

ditch it and go straight to NIxOS

[drito@sh.itjust.works]

I installed Arch like that. When I had to do a new install, I forgot everything, then I used archinstall with Xfce option and it worked fine.

[brisk@aussie.zone]

What was your experience with Inkscape and Godot? I have those both installed from repo.

I've never felt the need to use flatpak at all on arch.

[brisk@aussie.zone]

Partitioning is something I don't mess with on the terminal. Last time I set up a new drive I used SystemRescueCD first just to use gParted before installing arch (manually)

[pancakebrock@lemmy.zip]

The past 2 years I've only been using Arch with KDE plasma. It was the one that clicked with me and got me to stay using Linux. Before I ran pop! Os for a little while and didn't really like it or gnome then I went back to windows.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

Couldn't get nano to work to change sudoers after using archinstall, I'll just stick to mint until I learn how to properly use my computer

[brisk@aussie.zone]

Paru started as a rewrite of Yay by the main developer

[petter1@lemm.ee]

I can recommend using endeavourOS if you do not want to waste time

But if you want to learn, go for it! Make sure to have the arch wiki ready on a second device

And understand what chroot is, is very important

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Yea, I would say either go for arch manually or go straight to endeavourOS

[petter1@lemm.ee]

What exactly works better on flatpak version? Until now, for any packages that were somehow different, repo vs flatpak, were working better in repo version. (Due to container thingy, because flatpak version could bot see everything and I was zoo lazy to fix it using flatseal )

[jakeyflex@lemmy.ml]

I’ve had issues with discord not being current in the AUR. I moved to flatpak and haven’t had that issue.

[jakeyflex@lemmy.ml]

I’ve had Discord not be up to date in the AUR. Moved to flatpak and haven’t had that issue.

[untorquer@lemmy.world]

Godot had some driver issues. Inkscape had issues with the interface fonts.

Plasma 6/wayland

[untorquer@lemmy.world]

Seems to be program by program. Usually an issue with plasma or wayland or drivers.

[untorquer@lemmy.world]

Huh, works well for me, ig updates come a little late sometimes but never unable to use it.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

If you go the EOS route, yay is already installed.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

The only thing I have ever installed using Flatpak on Arch is pgAdmin. Inkscape from the repos works fine for me.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

You are better off using -Ss with yay than pacman. If you use pacman, it only searches the Arch repos. If you use yay, it also searches the AUR.