Arch has been the least limiting experience I have had with Linux thus far.
You wanna delete system files, do it, I dare you. Oh, it broke your system? Okay, not a problem. I haven't encountered a situation it wasn't recoverable. You wanna test bleeding edge custom kernels with drivers that are the newest available? Done.
If you're afraid of reading, troubleshooting, and trying new things to test your mettle? Yeah, go with something else.
There is very little I haven't been able to do with my Arch setups. I ditched Windows, and can't go back.
Just be aware of what you are installing. And do your best to audit your system regularly. Switching to a bleeding edge distro, and using thebAUr absolutely comes with risks. But it is up to the user to be aware of what they are installing. This goes for any OS. Be aware of what you are installing.
This can happen on any OS you install software willy nilly with no thought behind it.
I would agree with this. I don't see it as melodramatic.
Enthusiastic, yeah. And nothing wrong with someone interested in tech to also take the more poetic route of expression.
Many of the tech enthusiast types are more akin to mindless 1s and 0s. And not everyone is.
So like you did, rather lack thereof, the response of your own story is optional. I chose to share, because it's fun to discuss. This isn't a changelog, or patch notes. This is part or being human and sharing something other than binary data.
I have distro hopped like many others. Started out on Ubuntu more than a decade ago. It wasn't something I loved then, or now. But tried a few more along the eayway.
Ultimately, I landed on Arch. I want newest packages available, I like to tinker. And I wanted arch so that I could learn how my OS worked on a deeper level than windows would ever allow me to learn without extra dissection. I swapped from being a windows user directly to Arch.
My first few Arch installs were done by hand, but anytime I reinstall now that I have an understanding, I use the ArchInstall script.
Arch for me is the perfect cross of form, functionality, and up to date with large dash of customizability.
Yes, I am familiar with what Gentoo is, but never delved into using it. The next "leap" or discovery I am going to invest time into is Nix.
I'm not sure if there is a list of games anywhere that perform better with NTSYNC, but the few intested with disabling esync and fsync and enabling ntsync using wine-Wayland with GE-Proton didn't have much difference in performance, confirming that NTSYNC was being used by using Mangohud.
But so far no real difference on a few games I tested: Cyberpunk 2077, Doom: The Dark Ages.
Arch has been the least limiting experience I have had with Linux thus far.
You wanna delete system files, do it, I dare you. Oh, it broke your system? Okay, not a problem. I haven't encountered a situation it wasn't recoverable. You wanna test bleeding edge custom kernels with drivers that are the newest available? Done.
If you're afraid of reading, troubleshooting, and trying new things to test your mettle? Yeah, go with something else.
There is very little I haven't been able to do with my Arch setups. I ditched Windows, and can't go back.