If you can’t install something like EndeavourOS or tumble weed then you likely were not going to be able to reload an os anyway.

Installing vanilla arch is a very useful activity to do at least once so you know how the system works but don’t have to use vanilla Arch and can use any of the derivatives so long as it has the latest kernel / drivers for your hardware.

On new hardware it’s generally easier to use a rolling release distro in my experience.

You’re more likely to have a newer kernel and drivers that support things like wifi cards.

There are already anti cheat options on Linux. They just don’t put any dev time into them because it’s a small market currently.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a black mark on valve however I imagine it prints a lot of money and they seem reticent to put an end to it.

Torvald’s behavior has improved a lot recently but the shit he used to send in the past is definitely not conducive to actually getting shit done.

If you don’t have Linux experience it would not have helped. That’s coupled with the way people help with Linux, which is often type this thing into the terminal that you don’t really understand.

He was just conditioned by windows and Macos asking for administration prompts for everything. Linux just lets you break a ton more crap way more quickly.

Yeah at some point they are all the same to me it’s just the different package manager. Pacman, apt, yum or whatever they are calling it now a days.

Most use systemd.

I started using Arch flavors because when you have brand new hardware the latest kernel can be important. After the machine is a couple years old it doesn’t really matter.

Also Endeavouros is where it’s at (but don’t tell the vanilla Arch people, they won’t help me with my problems if they find out)

Arch is fine, installing it is a good learning experience. After that endeavoros does what I need to and I just have to click next a couple times and get on with my day.

There is a link to a live demo pretty close to the top.

Nah it’s just being replaced with phones.

Low tech users used to have cheap windows machines, now they have phones and tablets.

Really? I’m on a Linux desktop and I had not noticed. Though I steam from Netflix on it very very rarely.

I feel like most tools stop and warn me it appears to be a binary file but honestly I so rarely directly cat a file.

The disagree is for soft walking things. They give you the choice so people feel like they have one and don’t complain, then in the future they will continue to ask everything anything changes and if you accidentally agree they will never ask you again.

I remember the cube, might not have been this, might have just been the animation to change desktops.

Kernel level anti cheat is such crap.

It isn’t true Arch though, so the Arch forums would never accept them. They would have to go install from scratch to be able to get “I use arch btw” badge.

I use endeavouros btw.

That’s true and not true at the same time. The one advantage Windows has in this regard is that everyone is working on the same “distro” as it were. With Linux the various components can vary enough to be confusing. I think that is why it’s important to choose a distro with a sizeable community.

Something like Ubuntu, or an arch derivative like endeavouros are a good choice for that reason.

I would also warm against the copy paste of commands that you don’t know what you are doing with. The one nice thing is that in 2025 you can drop a command into your choice of LLM assistant and get a pretty good description of what it does without breaking out the man pages.

Mini Non-Volatile Memory Express Wireless Fidelity adapter

Suse is the first thing that came to mind

It’s good they put it up front though. There can be a lot of entitlement with oss users sometimes and setting expectations can help alleviate that.