This reminds me of when I got an RX for Quvivq. It came in a box… Which had three boxes inside of that… Each inner box had a slide-out blister pack with 10 pills in it 🤦♂️
My problems are usually during the installation, not necessarily related to Arch, but more so that EFI requires its own partition. I’ll partition my disk, forget that I need a FAT32 partition and then have to destroy a partition so I can add in the EFS . The other problem I’ve had is that the bootloader entry sometimes doesn’t get written after installation, so you reboot and then nothing, so you have to boot back into the ISO, remount everything, reinstall the bootloader (in my case, Grub), and reboot again.
Glad that helped you, they shouldn’t be changing since the names are based on their location in the PCI bus instead of being generic (eth0, eth1, etc…). IIRC you can specify udev rules to name the devices what you want using UUIDs or something that way you’ll always know what they’re called. I’d suggest reading about Ethernet device naming in Linux if you want to know more.
Glad that helped you, they shouldn’t be changing since the names are based on their location in the PCI bus instead of being generic (eth0, eth1, etc…). IIRC you can specify udev rules to name the devices what you want using UUIDs or something that way you’ll always know what they’re called. I’d suggest reading about Ethernet device naming in Linux if you want to know more.
I get your reasoning, a lot of “re-spins” are hidden away on many distros download pages, but saying something like “I don’t like Ubuntu because it uses Gnome” is like saying “I don’t like Fords because they come with radios”.
Regarding PopOS it probably is true because it probably all GUI specific things setup for new users, anything system level wouldn’t be changed.
No one ever said learning something completely new was gonna be quick and easy. Take it piece by piece and follow tutorials. Installing Arch Linux will give you a good idea how everything fits together instead of just “click, click, click, reboot” and it’s installed. You don’t learn anything that way.
I’ve considered giving it a go again since I have a 24 core Threadripper which could easily compile everything pretty quickly, I just never got around to it.