The beloved lightweight distro
Had to install Arch recently because it would help pad word count. Normally I wouldn't pick it because it takes so long to install for an experience that doesn't feel different enough to warrant that time. But I had to for uni so I thought people here might appreciate my attempt at making a pretty desktop. If anyone has tips with Gnome on here feel free to fire away aswell.
Arch needed for Uni? Mate, how do I transfer to wherever you study at?
Probably by plane /s
This actually reminded me that planes don't fly over my country...
Ok, you got me. What is your country?
Ukraine
I mean, planes do fly over it, but uhhh...
If you don't want to go through the regular install, why not to just use archinstall or EndeavourOS?
I need to pad word count so I needed things to talk about relating to the setup.
😄installing Linux on a macbookpro5,3 and get the grafic driver working would definitely have enough pad word count 🫣 well at least in the way how I did it.
They study at a based uni that made them go through the manual install, frfr
I guess learning may be part of the objective.
frankly I'd probably use one of those easy options in a new install.
But i'm personally glad to have gone through the process manually at least a couple of times on a few different systems, just to learn about various bits and pieces that may or may not be needed in different circumstances.
So yeah give that to students as a learning task - more useful than lots of the crap i was told to read.
I'd be surprised if it was a pre-requisite to do other coursework though
What do you mean "help pad word count"?
We have a word limit and the assignment I'm currently doing assumed you can get a work placement. Which I can't because no local companies are taking this year (The place I love has maybe 6 tech companies if you are generous). So I'm having to find other ways to display "A knowledge of best practices for tech in a workplace.
I respect the reach.
I didn't know Arch linux is a good skill to display. It's listed in a small portion of my resume but nothing huge.
It's not Arch itself that's the skill. It's how it's configured and used for specific purposes that counts to the marks.
I definitely think that putting Arch or any Linux distro for that matter shows technical know-how and troubleshooting skills. Being familiar in bash and shell is a big bonus in a lot of roles as well.
It's probably part of some homework and he has to describe the install process? Could have picked Gentoo for a higher word count IMO
I wanted to do Gentoo but compile times didn't count towards hours. And you can't really get a lot of words from "I waited 8 hours for Firefox to build."
And you can’t really get a lot of words from “I waited 8 hours for Firefox to build.”
You actually can if you describe the build process and how emerge works, how you can customize the packages with Gentoo's USE flags etc...
Yea but Arch has all of that already. I can't write about Portage outside of "It builds for your cpu. Which is great but everything is built for am64 anyways so it isn't worth the wait time" which I did. Sure you could write about use flags but it's university work and I atleast value some of my free time.
Yuki!
does arch take a long time to install? maybe its just experienced linux user talk, but getting a working arch install is maybe like, 5 minutes with somewhat decently fast internet. 10min maybe if you want a fancy desktop, or 30-40min if your DE comes from the AUR and you need to compile a lot
If you're not using an installer and you've never set up an OS via CLI, installing arch takes a very long time. The installation wiki isn't short, and it's fairly complex.
I still wouldn't say its a very long time, my nephew was able to run through it himself in around 25 minutes via the wiki.