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All I want for Christmas is... DEALS! - [2024 Christmas Megathread]
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Happy Boxing Day!
I use Debian with i3 window manager. Generally, I've got it set up so each program runs full screen in a separate workspace.
To be fair, I guess the idea of arch might not be so awful now on modern hardware. But whenever anyone mentions recompiling everything, I just have horrid flashbacks to cross-compiling Linux for sun4c around 1998 and just the kernel needing about a day and a half to compile. I've preferred distros with pre-built packages everywhere since.
@harrison > @mandala said:
If you know your way around things on a rolling distro, it's pretty solid as a daily driver. I'm an Arch user rocking KDE Plasma 6 for a couple of years now. My main workstation and all my laptops have the same setup, with package caching shared, so I only need to upgrade one system, and the others can share the downloaded packages from that, saving bandwith.
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Ah yes, the days in which installs took over 24 hours because you had to compile everything...
+1 After troublesome setting up with Windows Dualboot. Arch is yet so far so good. i haven't got a problems gaming here too! thanks to proton.
I did some
pacman -Rscon the wrong chain i guess? it delete bluetooth and some KDE metaIt means the user has to be knowledgeable to maintain the system, it isn't unusable. Rolling distros aren't always breaking but that happens more often. I find Void, Gentoo or OpenSUSE to be less prone to failure than Arch.
Yeah, always use
pacman -Syu, notpacman -Sy, to update the package indexes. If you update the package database (pacman -Sy) but don't upgrade your system immediately, you risk causing conflicts later on. Since Arch is a rolling release, the package index changes frequently, and upgrading a single package after just updating the index could result in version mismatches or dependency issues.Oh, dear!
Noiceee!
Also, check out GloriousEggroll for a modified version of Proton-GE. It's pretty solid and provides near-native performance for Proton games.
Windows may mess with the boot partition after an update. If running Windows bare metal isn't a must (for casual Windows software only, no need to use BT or printer for example), you can use KVM and passthrough the GPU if necessary. The drawback is that it will cause you even more headache from fixable or unfixable problems long term if you choose VFIO passthrough, is complicated if you have only one GPU and CPU doesn't have integrated GPU, near native performance but still not native,... but you can flex harder on top of being an Arch user.
But the real gamer uses LFS.
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Thanks! I actually broke my distro because i'm trying to play Roblox on Archlinux
. tho, i'm still looking for the solution
I am dual-booting Windows and Arch. Always set the EFI boot to GRUB (or whatever bootloader you installed with Arch) to prevent Windows from messing it up.
Absolutely yes
(Edit) I have no idea what I just agreed to
I haven't got round to it yet, but my plan is to virtualise my windows on my new machine, passing through igpu, one of the 2 network ports (plus a virtual net so it can talk to other vms), TPM plus WiFi, one of the nvme and hopefully also a USB bridge.
The general idea was so that the VM was as close as possible to bare metal so I could dual boot into either windows or windows+VMs and have windows think the hardware was essentially unchanged when in VM apart from a couple of devices missing.
But no idea how that's going to work out yet.
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Hello Mr. @FAT32 sir. I saw you posted a listing of deals the other day. I did read through your comments and not sure if I missed it but I was wondering if we can request another update. The deal monster is hungry.
No one will ever recover from the rigging here...
Smh