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    [–] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 34 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Just make them install Arch, I did just fine...

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

    Because debian.

    [–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    I installed black arch once, even my right click was weird

    [–] trespasser69@lemmy.world -4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Same, but normies wont bother to RTFM

    [–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    The wiki is great for those, who have some experience in Linux, not so for beginners.

    [–] Grian@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

    It isnt that hard, moved from wondows 10 to mint, and a few months later to arch, and it took me less than 2 hours to install arch, and thats with slow internet.

    And i learned a lot whole doing it, like Dekstop environments, disk partitoning(root, swap, and boot), filesystems, and a lot more.

    I wouldnt recommend it to everyone, but it is great if you want to learn more about computers.

    [–] Ooops@feddit.org 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    The wiki is actually good for beginners, too. As you are often forced to reallylly read through subpages and cross-referenced topics until you somewhat understand why you are doing something instead of just how. Doesn't make it easy ofc but a beginner can totally handle the wiki, it just takes more time.

    [–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Yeah, this has more or less sold me on giving arch a shot in the near future. I really need to get some fundamental Linux knowledge under my belt, and the arch wiki is legendary for being pretty comprehensive.

    [–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

    I may get stabbed for this but, go for Endeavour, unless a (probably needlessly) tedious install process is important to you.

    I had vanilla Arch up and running for a bit but kept having issues with Steam, so switched to Endeavour and haven't had any issues since. Its still a pretty basic version of Arch, with a few minor QoL improvements like having yay and a DE already installed.