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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I'm probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is "fun". Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don't enable the testing repo.

Also pacman is the fastest package manager I've ever used.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it really not that stable? I'm trying to switch from ext4 because of the built-in compression

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using it with Ubuntu and Arch with no issues for a couple of years, so ...?

[–] SgtThunderC_nt 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just lost a raid 0 array for what seems like no reason, all I even had to do was reformat and both drives are working again. It's fortunate I only use them for my steam library.

That being said I have an Ubuntu machine that's been running 4 drives in RAID 5 for like 5 years so.... Your mileage may vary?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will stick to static partitions, I am aware btrfs and RAID don't mix well

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