Back again haha, I asked a little while ago about making the switch from Windows to Linux and general consensus was maybe don’t, as I use my PC for work doing voice acting, music production, and digital art.
Anyway, my PC has been crashing lately so I may be at the point soon of re-installing my OS, so I may as well bite the bullet if/when that happens. Right now I’m making some backups, making a list of Linux programs I’ll need, and just trying to get my ducks in a row so I’m not scrambling if I wake up one morning and have to do the thing. Which brings me to Distros.
I’ve done some research into it but already but there are a bunch of options (thinking maybe Bazzite or Fedora?), and I’d rather know what I’m going with if my PC dies so I don’t have to waste time trying to figure it out then. My PC specs are:
Processor 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Obviously the priority is to get up and running but I’d really like to use a distro that I can learn some as well. I’ve installed Mint on an old laptop (recommended for being similar to Windows) but ideally I’d like a distro that’s a bit more Linux-y. I’m ok taking some extra time getting up and running, though I’m not at a point for something like Arch yet haha.
yes I know archinstall, no I don’t think it should be how someone installs arch for the first time.
the manual install for arch is pretty simple if you just read the wiki and you learn so much troubleshooting information from it. if someone is trying arch they should definitely go through the manual process
As someone who’s installed arch manually back in the day way before archinstall was a thing I tend to agree. Putting together your own install and seeing how everything fits together, to me, is the point of arch. If anything breaks I know what too lol at since I put it together myself and now how it goes together.
However sometimes we might need to reflect on gatekeeping and just because “back in my day we didn’t have a fancy script to help you” we might still let people use it for their first install (or let them use a arch based distro to get started)
Eh, do that in a VM after you have a working system.