I had a brief expedition into game development recently and ended up using Unreal Engine, I eventually gave up on Unreal – but I do plan on checking out Godot. Although, I eventually go home sick for Linux (my computer isn’t powerful enough to run a Windows VM with a game engine; please spare me), and ended up wanting a “it just works™” setup. So, logically, I try Fedora. Although, the installer just wouldn’t boot, not on a USB, not on Ventoy, nothing. Just a cold dark screen with a solid underline cursor. I also tried OpenSUSE at one point, but there’s some bad blood between me and that distro so I think I gave up at the installer. Anyway, I ended up installing Arch Linux, and would you look at that, the installer launches!
TL;DR: Arch Linux might take more time to get setup to your liking, but once you get it there, it it just works™.
PS: I have very much non-free hardware, this could be part of it – and it made installing Artix Linux with hardware encryption very difficult that one time. :/
Edit: PPS: I’m not trying to say “don’t use Fedora or OpenSUSE,” use what you want. This is my experience.
ive been using arch for a couple of months and the only thing that has broken is the timezone
i have tried using the same command to set the time as i did when i first installed (it worked) but now it just wont changev. if anyone wants to help, id be pleased :]
i tried using the wiki to fix it and now it has the correct timezone. realpath answers “/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo”
though the xfce time still shows that the pc time is 16 minutes late. date command does the same. (exemple: phone shows 15:16, which is the actual time, while pc shows 15:00)
though i dont live in sao paulo, it is just a little north of here and should be in the same timezone. also, when i installed the OS with that timezone, it showed the correct time.
I am gonna go against the circlejerk here and publicly admit that I have a macbook pro, daddy aint rich either, I wanted something that would last and works well, it’s both environmental and ux based decision for me, so it was either macbook or framework, since framework doesn’t sell in my country It’s an easy decision.
Also it’s an os most people want it to just work, one of the main reasons why iOS and MacOs are popular, until there is a linux flavor like mac is made and then it’s distributed as the default os, the year of the linux desktop will never come
I don’t see Gentoo, Slackware and Void there. Also Arch is an irrelevant distribution among us folks without life. It should be on the left, maybe after the “are you trying to look like a hackerman” question.
Yes, if not that, I’d probably use it. Everything is very nice except for that need to plan for installing software.
Kali - well, I’ve actually met one such person and he later stopped being stupid and got into something hardware-related. I’ve been a person believing that Gentoo or Slackware can turn one into a good sysadmin for a few years.
You only have to use one of seemingly several methods to make the offline account option appear based on what specific version installer you have, no to Cortana but wait for her subtitles to finish in time with her audio anyway, individually untick every data collection option which each take up the whole screen with the toggle and next button being just far apart enough for it to be annoying plus the slow fade transition, realize you actually need the enterprise edition to set telemetry to 0 using group policy editor which isn’t available otherwise, have a vaguely different installation for that, find out that some functionality isn’t available like Ms store and some other stuff on enterprise which requires PowerShell to add it in if needed. Then possibly some random app to block select domains, with exceptions for the ones that make xbox, the Ms support sites, and ms software not work when disabled if needed. and/or pihole/unbound/Adguard if you have the means of setting it up. Then have random software not work for unknown reasons but you know deep down it’s the non standard installation of windows.
IKR, or pretty much any distro even some of the ‘advanced’ ones with some caveats.
I just had to do up a dual boot with windows for someone who works with people that use a windows only software that currently can’t be wine’d, and was appalled at how awful the install procedure has become since everything after 7 really. The enterprise and not pro features that are actually desirable for privacy minded people that aren’t experts in networking hardware and software was a huge let down too. Well assuming M$ isn’t just blatantly lying about config options anyway.
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