• Skye@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, you will invariably remove something crucial haha. The nice thing with arch is that usually you can fix it without too much fuss.

    Me learning to use Linux was like teaching a child that can’t feel pain to not touch fire.

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      8 months ago

      I’m quite excited but also mildly worried about Arch. I am currently on EndeavourOS, so I’m used to day-to-day usage of an Arch-based system, but I do worry about not following some best practices that screw me over in the long run during the install or forgetting some crucial security things. I do believe 95% of what I could mess up is going to be covered in the install guide, but who knows what I’ll overlook. And I know Archinstall exists, but I might as well stay on EOS if I was gonna use that, as I primarily intend this to be a learning opportunity. We’ll see how things go!

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        8 months ago

        I agree. I think that’s why nix-os is getting so popular these days.

        I love the idea of declarative system builds even beyond just reproducability. The idea that you can essentially make your own distro without much difficulty is really cool.

        Plus all the benefits of roll backs, light backups, etc.

        Plus if you can dig deep enough you can craft a system that never breaks by pinning certain versions.

        One of these days I want to check it out. As well as LFS. Oh but for the want of time.

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          8 months ago

          About NixOS specifically, I actually made a post on !linux@lemmy.ml and overall the feedback seemed to be that Nix is a mixed bag, and that unless you want to duplicate your system a bunch of times, it’s probably smarter to stick to Arch, and a few people said I should use immutable Fedora for some reason despite that not being the question.