I’m on like day 2 of Garuda. Ran into corrupted packages during the install which wasn’t fun, but it’s up and running now. I’m hoping that maintaining it isn’t as much of a time suck as it sounds like pure Arch is.
15 minutes from booting the ISO to a Plasma installation is probably average. There are probably people who’ve done speed runs in 5 minutes. archinstall has gotten so good.
Wow crazy detail. I’ll read it when I get a chance lol. I stopped at “I’m a single tasker” I recently learned about the term “monotropism” which is so me.
I had never heard that term. I think I am bad at multitasking, but not to that point! :0 Maybe I’ll take an online monotropism test tomorrow and see what I get, just for fun
I’m like you as far as being the opposite of a multitasker, except I solved things with hardware. Getting a 32:9 monitor was fantastic because I can have one 16:9 window in the center and two 8:9 windows at the sides. The center window is big enough that the side windows are barely, if at all, in my peripheral vision, so it quells my anxiety with having multiple windows open.
Nice post tho, some good info in there since I’ll be switching my daily driver to KDE soon
Wow, buying a big monitor sounds like an idea that could work. I’d never even thought about doing that, since most of the times monitors like those are used, as far as I have seen, to get a better multitasking experience and I am the type of person who simply leaves one fullscreen window open at the time. But if it leaves your peripheral vision, I guess it is definitely possible.
I don’t think it’d work for me, but honestly, sounds like a great idea to have in mind! I’m having a lot of fun learning about different people’s workflows like this.
2 Do you have libnvme and nvme-cli installed? If no, try them, if yes look up things on the manuals. It may be that your bootloader can't read/mount from the nvme
3 Ever since systemd-boot appeared things have been not working so well, now, have they?
A full Hyprland DE with top bar, quick settings and app launcher, with unified looks and centralized setings would actually be awesome and might make me switch
Not trying to immediately change your mind, but Garuda added a Hyprland spin with their latest release. Boot into the live ISO and see what you think.
Could you provide some criteria for what you’re looking for in the way of security? Wayland is far better for security than Xorg, but it’s hard to say how much it varies between wayland compositors. I can’t imagine it would matter too much, but depending on how much security you’re looking for, choosing more minimal software is probably better. Rust can be better for security but I’m not entirely sure how much can really get compromised through poor memory management in a window manager.
I see you post a lot about security so I just wanted to chime in and say that maybe just use what works well for you because there’s nothing inherently safe, only stuff that is easier to break and stuff that takes more time. The only real way to be safe is to be prudent with what you download and what you do on the internet.
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