Comment on How often do you hop distros?

• fiddlestix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Installing Arch is a PITA tho, tbf. Just give me Calamaris …

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  • thingsiplay@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I installed Arch the Archway once on my old laptop, just to learn the standard procedure. At the moment, I don't see any reason for myself (other than learning) to use bare Arch over EndeavourOS, which is very close to it, but with some bells and whistles and some pre configurations. Which does not mean others have no reason, I just talk for myself.

    Also Arch nowadays have an installer script on the terminal, which makes things easier, but I never used it. I see it as a stopover between Calamares and manual Archway installation.

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• thingsiplay@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What do you mean by "bend over backwards"?

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  • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a common English idiom, referring to something that is difficult or taxing to accomplish.

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    • thingsiplay@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I see. To me using EndeavourOS is not bending over backwards, because it is not more difficult than using bare metal Archlinux. Just saying, because you say you don't understand people doing that. I don't do it. EndeavourOS makes it more easy and less headache to use Arch in my opinion. And from that perspective, it's a win situation.

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