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!

  • superkret@feddit.org
    14·
    2 days ago

    pacman and yay are basically the only “Arch terminal commands”.
    Everything else is just bash/Linux.

    yay options are identical to pacman options, plus some extra.
    If something you’re used to from Debian doesn’t work on Arch (like update-grub), just google the command plus Arch to find the non-specific Linux equivalent.

    • HexagonSunOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      This is good to know, thanks.

      So much of what you do early on is installing packages and updating. I guess it felt more different than it really is!