back in college (i’m old) i wanted to run arch on my desktop banged my head against my desk for days trying to get it to work turns out ryzen 3 was too new so arch didn’t support it the only way i got it working was a random forum post of a guy that refactored the bootloader to support it
What’s the benefit of Arch in general, or for your specific case? I’m using Mac right now and love it for the Unix filesystem, but from my time with Ubuntu I love how chill it is. Never got around to the “customization” of Linux tho, is that what you’re doing? If so, for what reasons? Just tryna learn, thanks!
To replicate install a gnome based Linux - this is much easier to do than setting up arch from scratch and installing a de, then I installed whitesur gtk theme (this works on other gtk desktops too) then install an icon pack, turn on the minimize and maximize buttons for windows for extensions I use dash to dock (animated version gave me errors) blur my shell, desktop items ng (bc gnome doesn’t show desktop items, search light, user themes
I’m going to use it for general purpose but in the background - and I already setup a systemd service for it - it will run a Minecraft server for friends, I’m going to install xrdp as I have a raspberry pi vpn so I can continue to use the pc as a remote workstation- like I did when it ran windows - if I keep dabbling into llms maybe I’ll setup a local LLM server - maybe plex, I might try to get moonlight working for remote gaming but I have to figure out gaming on this shit first (mc took 3 hour