I agree. and I happen to enjoy baking. arch was my first distro and after a whirlwind tour of other options at some point, has remained my daily driver os for the better part of a decade.
i don’t suggest arch to just any newbies. I suggest it to the ones who are overtly interested in baking. I don’t suggest it to people asking the best way to get tasty cookies, who are perhaps the majority, but not by as much as people seem to naturally suspect. sometimes I think some people giving answers don’t remember or realize that there are many kinds of people interested in learning about Linux and therefore many right answers for a starting distro.
mint has the same problem that butyric acid has in american herseys chocolate. if you associate the ingredient with toothpaste/vomit first, then you come in with a much more negative view of it.
Arch is like making your own cookies, starting from growing the wheat.
Mint and Pop! are like buying Oreos.
I’m done threshing in my life, never again.
This is really more like LFS. Arch would be having all the ingredients and doing the baking.
I think LFS means you also need to build the stove.
LFS: Here’s an empty planet and a bunch of minerals and shit, bake a cake.
-Carl Sagan
I agree. and I happen to enjoy baking. arch was my first distro and after a whirlwind tour of other options at some point, has remained my daily driver os for the better part of a decade.
i don’t suggest arch to just any newbies. I suggest it to the ones who are overtly interested in baking. I don’t suggest it to people asking the best way to get tasty cookies, who are perhaps the majority, but not by as much as people seem to naturally suspect. sometimes I think some people giving answers don’t remember or realize that there are many kinds of people interested in learning about Linux and therefore many right answers for a starting distro.
For the new readers never heard of LFS : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_From_Scratch
After being forced to watch a 3 hour documentary.
I like Oreos.
And not at all sarcastically, mint Oreos.
ChOcoLaTE tOotHpAstE
mint has the same problem that butyric acid has in american herseys chocolate. if you associate the ingredient with toothpaste/vomit first, then you come in with a much more negative view of it.
Goddamit, now you made me buy and try out mint oreos for the first time.
They’re one of my many one weaknesses
Right up there with table legs in the dark and white cheddar cheezits
Make sure to have a glass of milk with them!GUZZLE MILK WHILE YOU EAT THEM.
Edit: I sounded too much like an ad.
Mint Oreos are good, but lemon Oreos are great
Damn you and your mouth-watering memory inducers!
I had a phase of making shakes with milk + mint oreos + mint ice cream
Arch has an installer script now. It’s literally 1 command and you get a fully working system
So? You can install Windows with 0 commands
Doesn’t mean it is setup how you like it
You maybe get a working system. archinstall is nowhere near foolproof or even complete.
If you want a really painless install of something that gets you the closest to Arch use Endeavour.