I'm curious, you don't want to use a restricting mess (Poetteringware) and proprietary stuff, but yet you moved back to Windows?Combining the whole Poettering dictatorship that most distros* baited to, and the fact I would need proprietary, x86-only drivers& anyway - makes it a more negative experience than it was 5 or 10 years ago. For me, at least!
* = That distro I occasionally use being Devuan with Xfce, which still has quite a few rough edges I didn't remember from late 2000s Debian/Ubuntu
& = Brother all-in-one, in my case - but I am appalled that formerly reputable brands for libre and cross-OS support (Intel graphics and HP printers) have sharply fallen
I do not find Windows as going against my desires (well, at least the versions I use - I hate 10)I'm curious, you don't want to use a restricting mess (Poetteringware) and proprietary stuff, but yet you moved back to Windows?
I have to agree with this. At least on the software part. SIP is a super pain, but it can be dealt with. As far as the hardware goes, don't buy Apple. You canThe trouble for mac for me, other than them thinking they know better than me how I should be doing things, is everybody wanting something for what I find to be basic tasks on Windows or more other *nix variants. That and the shockingly poor build quality/design of their hardware.
I usually figure if I am going to hobble myself in some way I am certainly not going to pay for it.
I have used more distros than any normal person should
Arch isn't that bad when it comes to installation. Sure there's a bit of a learning curve to it, but all it is, really, is just getting a network connection set up, making the proper partitions, running pacstrap, and fixing up some post-install stuff.How many distros should a normal person use?
PS - Personally, not counting trying out a Live CD or a VM for a short while, I've used Debian -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> Xubuntu. Would move to a rolling release distro if I knew of a good one (that is, one that isn't insane to install (like LFS/Arch), latched onto a bigger distro and hence even more out of date than it is (Mint and one could argue Ubuntu), or nearly requires lots of compiling and has big shifting breaks at time (Gentoo)). *shrug*
Which can honestly be done in a single line. When I was going to school, I took a beginner's class to Linux because it was a requirement for information security, and I spent the time finding out how quickly I could set up Arch in a VM before the class was over. If Arch is too tedious, though, there's always ArchBang.Arch isn't that bad when it comes to installation. Sure there's a bit of a learning curve to it, but all it is, really, is just getting a network connection set up, making the proper partitions, running pacstrap, and fixing up some post-install stuff.
Arch isn't that bad when it comes to installation.
Sure there's a bit of a learning curve to it, but all it is, really, is just getting a network connection set up, making the proper partitions, running pacstrap, and fixing up some post-install stuff.
Except it's not. I got my time down to ten minutes (faster than the Ubuntu installer, regardless of hardware). Like I said, it can literally be fully installed and set up with a single line command. The installation guide is a non-sequitur. You want a hard distro to install? Check out CRUX, the distro Arch is based on.Uh, yea it is...