I’ve recently installed EndeavourOS, and so far, so good. Got an OK setup and managing the basics.

Previously everything I’ve tried has been Debian based.

I know about the Arch Wiki… but was wondering if anyone recommended a relatively concise and easy-to-navigate resource to get a more rounded and complete understanding of Arch terminal commands?

I find it far more easy to learn when I understand where the terms come from - knowing that sudo means “superuser do”, pacman comes from package manager. But the moment I don’t know what yay, -s etc actually mean haha…

Thanks!

  • HexagonSunOP
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    1 day ago

    Because it’s purely for learning / messing about, so nothing is of any real consequence.

    This is all on my old, now spare and otherwise redundant 2012 MacBook Pro. My everyday computer is an M1 Pro 14”.

    I had Mint running happily for ages, and basically knew everything I would need to know to rely on Mint if I ever needed to.

    But with its HiDPI retina display I wanted to be 100% wayland, and I also wanted to use KDE Plasma… And also I own a Steam Deck, and wanted to be more familiar with Arch based distros because of that.

    So to tick those boxes and learn something new I switched. There’s no photos, documents, music or anything on it so if it suddenly won’t boot one day it wouldn’t really matter.

    The Ivy Bridge intel/Nvidia graphics on that Mac are an absolute nightmare for Linux though haha. On every distro I’ve ever tried up to and including this one…