Alt text: O’RLY? generated book cover with a donkey, navy blue accent, header: “It’s only free if you don’t value your time”, title: “Handling Arch Linux Failures”, subtitle: “Mom, please cancel my today’s agenda!”

  • over_and_out@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 months ago

    Maybe your “could be fixed within minutes” is someone else’s “took hours to figure out how to fix when I was actually supposed to be working”?

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      4 months ago

      Nah, I usually find the solution on the arch website. If that doesn’t work, it’s in the forum - which is usually the first search result on all major search engines for any given pacman problem. Once you’ve found the solution it’s hardly more than just copy-pasting it.

    • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
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      4 months ago

      No it’s actually very simple stuff. Arch is surprisingly stable and easy to manage, and had been for the better part of a decade

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      4 months ago

      If you follow the manual installation at the end you know which package do what in your system. When i use a ready to use distro (i have a endeavouros for my daily) you have to invest more time in your error resolution because you have to analyse what your distro use.