Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Okay I have started archinstall on one VM and downloading EndeavourOS to install on another.
Will see how easy/hard each one is and what it takes to get everything I have running on my main into these. (I am assuming to be able to use by RTX4090, I will have to do a physical install, that can be the last step).
Lol, while writing this message, the archinstall completed and I have a Arch KDE up and running. First impressions:
The UI is extremely slow, need to check why. Perhaps I should switch to a different GUI, but I have installed KDE on Ubuntu on VM with exactly same specs (16 GB RAM, 50 GB disk, 2 vcpus) and is not this slow ... perhaps I should try a different windowing system. Seeing how quickly I can change the window system would be a good test.
I have seen that in almost all distros, the terminal is not listed by default in any shortcuts, and was hoping Arch would be an exception, being for power users, but sadly its missing here too :(
Came with multiple browsers - thats pretty good. Esp. since it came with Chromium without having to install snap crap - Huge positive !
Package manager doesnt come with a default way to search for packages. Need to install yaourt, but that is not even available in the default repository. This is a small negative in my opinion.
However installing it from git and installing Brave using that was pretty painless, again huge positive.
Installed a few other tools I use using yaourt (srsly it needs a better non-french sound name, lol) and everything went pretty smoothly.
So looks like I am set to install this on physical. Now i need to find space amongst my 7-8 OSes I have installed here lol.