Had to install Arch recently because it would help pad word count. Normally I wouldn’t pick it because it takes so long to install for an experience that doesn’t feel different enough to warrant that time. But I had to for uni so I thought people here might appreciate my attempt at making a pretty desktop. If anyone has tips with Gnome on here feel free to fire away aswell.

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
    4•5 months ago

    It’s probably part of some homework and he has to describe the install process? Could have picked Gentoo for a higher word count IMO

    • @[email protected]OP
      4•5 months ago

      I wanted to do Gentoo but compile times didn’t count towards hours. And you can’t really get a lot of words from “I waited 8 hours for Firefox to build.”

      • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
        0•5 months ago

        And you can’t really get a lot of words from “I waited 8 hours for Firefox to build.”

        You actually can if you describe the build process and how emerge works, how you can customize the packages with Gentoo’s USE flags etc…

        • @[email protected]OP
          4•5 months ago

          Yea but Arch has all of that already. I can’t write about Portage outside of “It builds for your cpu. Which is great but everything is built for am64 anyways so it isn’t worth the wait time” which I did. Sure you could write about use flags but it’s university work and I atleast value some of my free time.