Big fan of SBC gaming, open source engine recreations/source ports, gaming in general, alternative operating systems, and all things modding.
Trying to post and comment often in an effort to add to Lemmy’s growth.
Is there a chance that Arch says that so they don’t have to take on the responsibility of endorsing yay while also acknowledging its prevalence?
Like if Nintendo made a statement saying they recommend against third party mods or repairs that deal with joycon stick drift because they don’t want to be held accountable or contacted about issues consumers run into a result of them.
Paying close attention to news feeds is something I wish I did when I ran Manjaro.
Any reason you would recommend Slackware specifically?
I’ve watched a few Youtube videos on the history of it and the advantages of it but I don’t recall much. It seemed like a lot of people who had used Slackware a long time ago simply continuing to use Slackware and people using at as a learning tool because of how user involved it is.
Would you recommend people start with Slackware itself or a Slackware-based distro?
It does. It gives you this message
-> Avoid running yay as root/sudo.
I only ran Debian and Ubuntu based distros up until that point so I thought you always needed to install packages using sudo.
I am pretty sure I ignored the warning initially because the first couple packages I tried to install with sudo and yay worked.
This was a while ago.
It doesn’t hurt to have the LTS kernel installed as a backup option (assuming you use the standard kernel as your chosen default) in case you update to a newer kernel version and a driver here or there breaks.
I had a similar issue that was resolved by swapping to the LTS kernel. Learning about using a bootable Arch USB and chrooting into your install to make repairs would be a good thing for OP to know
Why paru specifically?
And the neofetch print out
I didn’t read the documentation so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to use sudo with yay.
-Ss can be added to pacman to search for packages. Pretty useful if you don’t want to DuckDuckGo them every time.
As for applications one neat one I don’t see recommended very often is xkill. You can use it to kill applications kind of like you would with the task manager in Windows. htop is probably a closer comparison to the task manager in general though.
There are a lot of Arch-based distros that are incredibly easy to install if you want a very easy setup process that doesn’t involve a lot of terminal work.
I don’t think the official release has the shadow or resolution fixes and the IKEA stuff pack so I’d definitely go with the fan pack
Scraper can grab video game maps and manuals automatically as part of it’s process if you want them for older games.
It comes down to price. You can buy used ThinkPads and replacement parts for them quite cheap a lot of the time.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at devices from places like System 76 but if I recall correctly they are still over a thousand dollars when a used ThinkPad T440P for example can be found for around two hundred dollars.
It reminds me a bit of Garmin acquiring Pebble and discontinuing support. This does sound significantly worse though