Orphans would eventually starve out or cause problems and be noticed. Wouldn’t be an issue on day one ;0
Yeah, but also EOS has some specific configurations for dracut and systemd-boot. Things like reinstall-kernels and dracut-rebuild. These are scripts specific for standard EOS installs that need to be taken care of. They may work if you convert the system to Arch as well. I’ve never tried.
Me either, hopefully we won’t see the day that we need to.
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what? no computers in the afterlife? Stay alive!
I have always wondered about the back story of Rock Linux. I had a buddy that was a dev/contributor to that distro back in the day,
Apart from the fact that it was a 1-man show, that 1 man was also particularly unhelpful. Admittedly, I was a Linux noob and an Arcolinux noob, so perhaps Arcolinux was not for me. If he would have told me that from the start I would have kept a positive impression of the man.
It was after that that I tried EOS and was very pleasantly surprised, esp. as a noob. That confirmed to me that an Arch-based distro does not have to be out of a noob’s reach.
Had Arco installed a few times, the last time I installed it with Refind as bootloader. That left me with a nicely configured Refind with a nice theme also.
A complex set-up, and that is only the beginning.
Not complex, just time consuming compared to a graphical installer.
Sorry about your impression but the few times I had interactions with him he was helpful and kind. Maybe you caught him on a bad day? Everyone has those.
My take on this is that he extensively documented everything, so why (his take not mine…also I’m assuming that it IS his take) are you asking him questions that he has already answered in his videos?
Because yeah, I’d seen some curmudgeonly behavior (but I think I understand it). Do you think my interpretation has any merit ?
I, myself, am definitely that way (and worse), why ask me when you can do your own research, almost everything has been explored/explained/solved and is online somewhere :0
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As I said, I had very few interactions with him and didn’t spend much time on Arco’s forum except when posting a couple of times and asked for help to resolve some issues. On those occasions I didn’t get the impression that he was “particularly unhelpful”. Maybe ha wasn’t that “verbose” and didn’t spoonfeed me but he pointed me to the right direction to resolve the issue.
I agree, except that I did not just interact with him on 1 day but over several days.
He was certainly very knowledgeable, and expert, but helpful to those who were not noobs; he had no time for noobs. That is acceptable too, nothing wrong with it, but then he should say so as soon as he realized someone is a noob.
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Well, installing Arch with Archinstall is not that complicated, in fact it makes your life much easier, that script. And it is present on the Arch “vanilla” iso, you do not have to find custom iso.
Actually, there are also many videos that show how it works. If I managed to install arch through archinstall, and I am a noob, anyone can do it.
The only precaution that I noticed and found, is that it is better to have the hdd where you want to put arch empty, as if it were new, because otherwise with archinstall it could go into error and terminate the installation when formatting the disk (which goes into error).
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Agreed! Just yesterday we had someone here ask the same question within a month where he got the same answer. So I can understand if someone is not willing to learn from a previous answer they got to their question or previous content someone already has put out that it can frustrating and time-wasting for that person. It’s not like anyone owes anyone to be a free private tutor, be grateful someone is putting content out there.
I tried ArcoLinux two or three times. But it took time to find out which ISO to download and install.
Also, for me it was a pain in the ass to find the right tutorial on YouTube. When I got questions I had to search on the website or through more than 4.000 videos.
I‘m with EOS now and love it.
I wish all the best to Erik. Thanks for your time and work for your own distribution. Arco wasn’t for me. It wasn’t mine …
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I dunno, maybe it was just me (and it was many years ago, when there were fewer ISOs), but I couldn’t keep an Arco system stable for long. All sorts of problems would occur. Plus I agree with you that the website was really really hard to navigate.
I’ve never been an AV person, I’d rather read text because I don’t get bored and zone out (probably too many years of television)…and I can read about 10x faster than anyone is going to speak.
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I would swap to pure arch if endeavour would close the doors. Manjaro is a no go.
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I think, I also would switch to Arch if EOS wasn’t there anymore.
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I liked Arco linux to some degree but I found their website went off the rails a long time ago and it became exhausting just to want to download an ISO and install it. Everything changed and it became something different than it was originally. I would have preferred if it had stuck to putting out installable ISO’s and kept the youtube learning videos separate. Sadly the website to me was a mess. I will miss it though as it did have some great desktop installs. I think it got away from it’s original roots and got lost in an overwhelming sea of confusion. I mean this sincerely and not to put it down or take away from many of the great things they did accomplish.
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