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  • There's no graphical installer officially, no. There are many Arch derivatives with installers though, like CachyOS.

    Installing Arch is literally running like 10 commands, and it's all very well documented.

    1. Put your Archiso USB stick in and reboot
    2. Format your disks if needed, mkfs
    3. Mount root and boot partitions
    4. Run pacstrap to install base system
    5. Generate fstab
    6. In chroot, set time and locale(s), set password, install bootloader
    7. Choose/install a network manager, like systemd-networkd
    8. Reboot

    Now you're running Arch. Make a user and install a DE, optionally.

  • And when in doubt, just check the Arch wiki, it's a gold mine

  • Comparing Arch and Gentoo is wild. Arch is so much more simple and well documented.

  • less likely to break during an update

    In my experience, Ubuntu and Debian are by far the most likely to break during an upgrade

  • It's super easy to start a VM to try.

    Just install qemu (and optionally enable KVM), then to run eg. Ubuntu installer:

     
        
    qemu-system-x86_64 \
      -enable-kvm \
      -m 2G \
      -cpu host \
      -smp 2 \
      -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso \
      -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
      -boot d \
      -vga virtio \
      -display gtk
    
      

    After you install it, run the VM:

     
        
    qemu-system-x86_64 \
      -enable-kvm \
      -m 2G \
      -cpu host \
      -smp 2 \
      -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
      -boot c \
      -vga virtio \
      -display gtk
    
      

    Or use libvirt, like a layer on top to make things much simpler. I use virt-manager for GUI and virsh on command line.

  • There was also a great proposal to use kiloseconds.

    We already use 15 minutes (16.67 minutes = 1ksec) a lot in regular speech. My language has a word for it (kvarter) which is used all the time.

    There used to be cool website listing all the benefits but it's been down for a few years :(

  • Facebook Messenger also claims to be end-to-end encrypted... There's literally no way of knowing if they can decrypt your messages.

    The only way to know is to host it yourself and preferably use post-quantum secure encryption.

  • Then where would the profitable incarceration enterprise prison get its slave labor?

  • Hah, didn't know that

  • Danish is closer, we call it Tyskland

  • Most Dutch people I met just call it Holland. We do so in Denmark as well

  • Willingly switching from Arch to Debian says a lot about a person

  • The only people who use Debian are the people who started with Debian

  • I will never understand people who willingly subject themselves to Debian when there are so many better alternatives

  • Who is moaning?

  • It is, and people are sharing all the knowledge in the world, in a way that was never possible before.

    Just because an AI-driven botnet is flooding it with bogus articles, and mainstream entertainment is full of brain rot, it doesn't mean the internet isn't incredibly useful, to the point that many people would struggle with daily life without it.

  • How is the Internet not a network of knowledge open to anyone??

    It's full of crap, yes. Back then it was just much smaller, but still very much crap-filled.

  • 100% agree with this, to the point that if you haven't taught your child to eat all the common vegetables by the time they enter the real world, you have failed as a parent.

    I feel such strong second-hand embarrassment when somebody has to excuse "I don't like onions" (like wtf onions is THE number 1 vegetable) or tomatoes or something.

    I will admit to have shamed my girlfriend about not liking celery until she ate it daily for a week to learn. Now her favorite drink is bloody mary because of the free celery snack.

  • You don't have to be an adult to post malware and hire DDoS botnets