It’s to reaffirm our own superiority, because even the script can’t install Arch like we can…

As someone who likes access to most of the internet, I am a fan of my OS having IPV4, yes

I use tiling too (i3), it’s more about wayland sucking than the tiling, but combining those 2 results in a lot of frustrating little issues that need specific rules for different software.

unpopular opinion: tiling wms and wayland are nothing but a flashy headache… I use Arch (with i3, btw)

Just got this set up and it works like a charm! Thx so much for the help!

Thanks! I might try vbr for a few and see if I notice a quality difference with that, last time I tried it, I looked at it in audacity and the waveforms were a tad off so I have just fallen back on 320 CBR mostly, but it might sound fine honestly.

I was really hoping for something I could just use without running commands with a phone keyboard (it feels so odd to do that), but scripting it instead of having to manually run commands everytime seems like it could be fine. Thanks for the suggestion!

You used to have to add those things manually… Now these newbies can either use archinstall or just install this?! What is Arch coming to…

What OS are you using and what exactly do you mean by ‘discovery issue’ (network issue or directory scanning)?

As mentioned before, disks are great for archiving files for long-term storage, so they eould work for that. You could also see if you have any non-techie freinds who want/need a cd or two burned (though not likely, still possible).Alternatively there are quite a few crafts you could try.

It’s fine, the repacks generally tick up the CPU and RAM a lot. It’s just extracting things faster than if it didn’t use that many resources. You only really have to worry if the extraction process halts for unreasonably long (over an hour or smth), then you may have a system issue (not the repack’s fault).

command ‘pacman’ not found
aggressively re-pacstraps

If this was accurate, the ropes would have snapped and Homer would go hurddling to the base of the mountain.

Oh is that what it was? Well, that’s helpful to know, thanks! Though it turned out to be a blessing because it forced me to make the jump to linux and now I would hate to go back anyways…

Back when I was first in high school, I got into torrenting and gave myself pretty bad malware that just black-screened my laptop, and even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason. Linux detected my hardware and I installed Ubuntu, then Mint, and I moved to Arch a few years ago after having learned the ropes. That’s about when I fully spiralled into linux nerd.

Thanks for the extensive response! You make some really good points and I was unaware of the political ick. Not sure if it’s enough to make me leave them because they do seem to at least handle the privacy aspect of their services correctly (for now at least), but those do seem like good areas that I’m going to watch more closely about them from now on.

alias ser=‘pacman -Ss’
alias ins=‘sudo pacman -S’
alias rem=‘sudo pacman -Rncs’
alias upd=‘sudo pacman -Syu’

alias q=‘quit’
alias cl=‘clear’

alias p=‘systemctl poweroff’
alias r=‘systemctl reboot’

Can I ask what those other reasons are? (genuinely curious if I should switch away from them)