Arch Linux – Best Tips for Beginners?

[telorand@reddthat.com]

"Arch" for people who think Arch is too easy.

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

lol Arch wasn't hard and neither was vanilla NixOS, in fact NixOS was easier

[uxellodunum@lemmy.ml]

Arch was the distro that got me to stop distro-hopping. It's stable, it has a rolling release, and it's mine (as in, customizable, manageable).

I guess, if there's anything I wish I'd known off the bat is that the Arch documentation is probably the best available. So much so, a LOT of it applies to Linux in general and not strictly to Arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page

If something breaks, READ the error messages, understand each component, and check the wiki, there's a very high chance the troubleshooting section has the exact issue laid out.

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Yes, and I love it

Maybe I should have added “if going the arch route”..

[telorand@reddthat.com]

Not if you have a weird app that only installs with a self-executing tarball. But for initial setup, sure.