Arch is like the IKEA version of Linux. Thanks to their WIKI, i feel that i can troubleshoot most issues by myself despite not having huge linux experience.
Arch Wiki is useful even if you're using a different distro.
From macOS to Arch Linux
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Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#102Getting your custom stack tuned feels great, but maintaining that entire stack across updates is daunting. You can't join meetings because your headphone/ mic/ video drivers aren't working? yikes. i trust apple to handle hardware and os for me. I've switched to: macOS > brew (basic cli utils & gui apps) > some basic zshrc (not ohmyzsh) > docker (not environment managers) > done. ^ but i've lost trust for them to hand…
> You can't join meetings because your headphone/ mic/ video drivers aren't working?
Funnily the "oh wait my mic is not working, let me reboot" seems to happen all the time when my Mac-using coworkers join meetings.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#103I just completed my migration in the opposite direction after using Arch Linux as my daily driver for ~10 years. I think Arch Linux is by far the better OS for pretty much all power users, but when using multiple devices, the benefits of the "Apple Ecosystem" outweigh the benefits of an amazing desktop OS for me, which is why I ended up switching to Mac OS. Some key points which I believe are much worse on Mac: * No…
The Alt-Tab behavior on MacOS across multiple screens is really annoying. Also window resizing behaviors. If there was a way to override those it would be an unmatched system/environment.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#104I just completed my migration in the opposite direction after using Arch Linux as my daily driver for ~10 years. I think Arch Linux is by far the better OS for pretty much all power users, but when using multiple devices, the benefits of the "Apple Ecosystem" outweigh the benefits of an amazing desktop OS for me, which is why I ended up switching to Mac OS. Some key points which I believe are much worse on Mac: * No…
> Setting up ergonomic custom keyboard shortcuts is painful and requires (multiple?) third-party applications to do well.
Take a look at Hammerspoon[0] for this if you haven't already. It requires some work to get it working the way want (you'll be writing some basic Lua code) but it's by far the best, all-in-one solution I've found for this problem on macOS. It has a ton of built-in modules for automating things including being to setup hotkeys globally as well as modal/on per-app basis
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#105Getting your custom stack tuned feels great, but maintaining that entire stack across updates is daunting. You can't join meetings because your headphone/ mic/ video drivers aren't working? yikes. i trust apple to handle hardware and os for me. I've switched to: macOS > brew (basic cli utils & gui apps) > some basic zshrc (not ohmyzsh) > docker (not environment managers) > done. ^ but i've lost trust for them to hand…
Meanwhile, macOS, Homebrew, and Docker are all chock full of phone-home spyware, which is why I switched away.
It's a bit more work but at least I'm not fighting my computer the whole way to not spy on me.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#106I just completed my migration in the opposite direction after using Arch Linux as my daily driver for ~10 years. I think Arch Linux is by far the better OS for pretty much all power users, but when using multiple devices, the benefits of the "Apple Ecosystem" outweigh the benefits of an amazing desktop OS for me, which is why I ended up switching to Mac OS. Some key points which I believe are much worse on Mac: * No…
Whoa now, don't leave me hanging. What are the benefits of the "Apple ecosystem"? I'm using a Macbook right now because it's tiny and light and has amazing hardware, but once I need to get things done, it's closed and charging. If you have multiple devices, why do they all need to be identical?
I have a macbook and and Iphone, so one handy thing I use is the clipboard is shared between devices on the same LAN that are signed into the same icloud accont. so I can select some text with my mouse, hit "paste" in my phone, and it works instantaneously. definitely one of those "wow we live in the future" moments.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#107> I started on Slackware a long time ago, then used Debian for some time and Ubuntu over the years when I needed a virtualized environment. I consider myself a Linux newbie and I’m sure I’m about to make many questionable choices.
Somebody who started with Slackware, then to Debian and Ubuntu does not really fall into the "newbie" group in my opinion.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#108"There are still many things I need to set up on the new laptop, for example: suspension/hibernation on closing the lid doesn’t always work" For me, this is one of those things that should work out of the box. I appreciate Arch is one of those distros you configure manually, and can thus choose whether to implement this or not. But I'd rather not have my laptop burn out in my bag because the system didn't suspend pro…
I learned this the hard way.
When i was around 16, i was gifted a laptop. Mind you, this was my first pc ever. Before that i was going to internet cafes.
So being the good "hacker" i was at the time, i installed Ubuntu to be like the cool kids. Few days later the motherboard got fried in my backpack. Apparently, the laptop didn't go to sleep when i closed the lid and overheated.
Still hurts.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#109"There are still many things I need to set up on the new laptop, for example: suspension/hibernation on closing the lid doesn’t always work" For me, this is one of those things that should work out of the box. I appreciate Arch is one of those distros you configure manually, and can thus choose whether to implement this or not. But I'd rather not have my laptop burn out in my bag because the system didn't suspend pro…
And every time this comes up I need to clarify that if it worked out of the box I'd need to switch it off because I hate that behaviour, I only want it to sleep when I give an explicit command. And I've heard that from more people, but I guess we are the minority.
Re: From macOS to Arch Linux
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Arch is the first system I have been able to support, fully. As in, 100% of the issues I run across with my distro, I can resolve. I used to run Ubuntu as my gnome desktop distribution, and when it worked (99% of the time), it was a superior experience to Arch. However when running Ubuntu I would inevitably run across some issue that seemed to require a level of sysadmin chops that I never have possessed. For the pas…
Would you recommend Arch to someone without a lot of Linux experience? Ubuntu has me thinking of switching to a different OS.
I’d recommend going for it, and as others have said, be prepared to read the Arch Wiki, a lot.
I think what’s most important would be to simply have the guts and the inspiration to keep going, even if you think you’ve lost all hope. Personally, I started out my Linux journey with Ubuntu, then distro hopped and tried PopOS, and Ubuntu-based distro with extra things here and there. Then, I took a Linux course online (for free) and gave me general fundamentals, it advertises as the “The Start from scratch Linux course”. After that and spending tons of time on Reddit and seeing post after post and the memes about ‘I use arch btw’ I decided to try it out. It was definitely fun and a tad time consuming at first, but after that I’ve learned a ton more about Linux and how things work. I’ve only had a broken system a couple times. Again, the ArchWiki is your friend.