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Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Why are distro communities turning linux more and more into Windows and Mac OS clones?

This is why I use Arch.

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[–] AkatsukiLevi 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After you figure out how to properly partition your disk, you learn how the entire setup is actually quite simple Basically, Mount partitions, pacstrap to install the base system, generate fstab, chroot in, create a unprivileged user and add it to sudo, setup grub, configure internet, exit chroot and unmount, reboot into the newly installed system, configure X11/Wayland to your liking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Installing Arch is a lot easier than fixing a bad Manjaro update. I get that it's intimidating, but it's really quite easy if you can follow instructions, but budget a couple hours your first time because you'll probably second-guess everything. The second time should be more like 30 min.

[–] AkatsukiLevi 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'Till you figure out that, on Arch, if you missed/broke anything, you can boot into the Arch USB, mount your root into /mnt, and arch-chroot in to fix whatever is broken

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, a live image works in a pinch. IMO, just use BTRFS on root and install something like snapper to handle snapshots and you shouldn't need the live USB (unless you bork your bootloader somehow).

[–] AkatsukiLevi 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be me, and bork BTRFS itself while trying to compile OpenMW from source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How did you manage that??

[–] AkatsukiLevi 2 points 1 month ago

There are things in this world you are not meant to fiddle with And apparently, glibc is one of 'em