Those two days aren’t really spent configuring, they’re spent learning.
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I was once checking out Garuda, because the name popped up a handful of times. Outside of the absolutely repulsive front page, the moment i saw unmarked and unexplained “fun scripts” in the installer, i unplugged the installer
Very fair. I'm a far cry from an advanced user - I know just enough to be dangerous to myself, and didn't see that. As I said in another comment, though, I do like that the default browser is somewhat hardened and uses a decent searx instance as the default search. It does seem to be marketed towards teenagers, though, unfortunately.
It’s not even really about how advanced you are. Using something more trustworthy, and something you can depend on, is always better. For arch(-based) distributions, i would always recommend Endeavour. Plain Arch will just do it too, if you can follow instructions as listed
Also archinstall sets you up with a DE of your choice and other basics for day to day use
I wasn’t a fan of it, personally. I’ve only tried it once, because the regular install takes me less than 10 minutes start to full completion, but didn’t really like some of the opinionated choices for the setup here and there. Still appreciate that it’s there though
Fair enough, I'm just saying it makes things easier for people who feel overwhelmed with the installation process shown by the arch wiki
2 days?
You guys stop configuring?
What about just using archinstall?
That's like reaching the top of Mount Everest with oxygen and fixed ropes. You can only brag until you talk to a /real/ climber.
You can if you break it.
archinstall saves you like <15 minutes of boilerplate
Took me 5 minutes.
I mostly appreciate the pre-installed browser that takes many less steps to harden than a fresh install.
If you want a hardened browser try librewolf
Librewolf is just my go-to on any new install now. Love it ootb.
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I installed arch last night in less than 20 minutes. The longest part was figuring out how to connect WiFi from the terminal. But I googled it and it was easy.
I config like 30 mins a day its never good
I didn't spend 20 minutes setting up Arch.
I use Arch btw.
Endeavour does it for me.
No nonsense arch setup without any bells and whistles.
Yeah, I get that. I do, however, really like how FireDragon comes with a lot of the extension I'd like to use, and with searx as the default web search. It also takes almost no time to switch to a much better KDE layout as opposed to the seemingly script kiddie dr4a6onized default.
I wouldn’t use firedragon. It is a very outdated fork of librewolf, which is hardened even more. While librewolf is only a few days behind regular Firefox, firedragon sometimes is months behind making it a horrible choice for security.
Edit: seems to no longer be the case
I think it's a fork of floorp not librewolf. But it used to be that way.
You can't install FireDragon on any other Linux distribution?
EndeavourOS ftw imo
In any case, I end up wasting all that saved time on the semiannual rewrite of my neovim config anyway.
Same until I started using helix, where my only config is adding another language server and setting a theme
welp, there goes my Tuesday.
What's some neovim config you always keep?
I usually keep most of the config. I just move them around to make it more comprehensive. The only time I made a huge change during a rewrite was when I learnt about treesitter textobjects.
- be satisfied with neovim config
- see someone has created a shiny new config on github
- add similar stuff your config
- break everything
- spend a week fixing everything
- be satisfied with neovim config
- repeat the above steps indefinitely
Or you could use something stable
I Syu every other day and I literally cannot remember the last time I had to fix anything in my Arch setup (outside of initial setup)
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