As the title says I want to go back to Arch full time. I'm a long time Mint user and I'll always have an appreciation for just how wel it works, how stable it is and pretty much everything about it. There are a few things Im not too keen on but theyre all trivial things I could and do overlook, like the tasbar not having a floating option and the level of customisation in cinnamon not being as in depth as KDE. I am aware KDE is availabe on Mint, but it not being supported puts me off.
I like Arch for how simple it is, the package manager is great and it is far more lightweight than my current Cinnamon environement too. Im not struggling for system resources or storage space, and nothing on Mint is giving me reason to need a change, yet no matter how much I use Mint and tailor it to what I want it to do it never feels as nice as a properly set up Arch system in my opinion.
Here is the issue for me. I had Arch set up and it was used on a daily basis for a long time, and I only got rid of it the first time due to being bored and wanting to hop. After however long away from it when I went back I could not get it stable again. I had issues with the desktop environment leaving me stuck on a terminal, issues with the keychain refusing me access, and my last attempt gave me an issue whilst I was online reading some entries in the repository. Nothing was downloading, updating, installing, yet I lost all internet access and nothing helped and nothing got it back. I followed all sorts of guides and different peoples advice, rolled back to an earlier restore point, absolutely nothing worked. Its things like this that put me right off the idea of what would generally be my favourite distro.
The point of me making this post is to ask - if you're on Arch now, NOT an Arch based distro but just straight Arch, how is the experience for you? Do you ever run into issues that seem unfixable and how do you sort them? Is it worth giving it another go, making a restore point as soon as it is installed and trying again? Have any tips aside from the obvious 'back it all up'?
My second point to this post is how is the Arch community on here? Id rather spend my time figuring out my problems without asking others but sometimes its not possible. Im a competent Linux user, by no means am I anywhere near a professional or at the level where I can fix a system with nothing more than terminal and my own knowledge.
I like Arch for how simple it is, the package manager is great and it is far more lightweight than my current Cinnamon environement too. Im not struggling for system resources or storage space, and nothing on Mint is giving me reason to need a change, yet no matter how much I use Mint and tailor it to what I want it to do it never feels as nice as a properly set up Arch system in my opinion.
Here is the issue for me. I had Arch set up and it was used on a daily basis for a long time, and I only got rid of it the first time due to being bored and wanting to hop. After however long away from it when I went back I could not get it stable again. I had issues with the desktop environment leaving me stuck on a terminal, issues with the keychain refusing me access, and my last attempt gave me an issue whilst I was online reading some entries in the repository. Nothing was downloading, updating, installing, yet I lost all internet access and nothing helped and nothing got it back. I followed all sorts of guides and different peoples advice, rolled back to an earlier restore point, absolutely nothing worked. Its things like this that put me right off the idea of what would generally be my favourite distro.
The point of me making this post is to ask - if you're on Arch now, NOT an Arch based distro but just straight Arch, how is the experience for you? Do you ever run into issues that seem unfixable and how do you sort them? Is it worth giving it another go, making a restore point as soon as it is installed and trying again? Have any tips aside from the obvious 'back it all up'?
My second point to this post is how is the Arch community on here? Id rather spend my time figuring out my problems without asking others but sometimes its not possible. Im a competent Linux user, by no means am I anywhere near a professional or at the level where I can fix a system with nothing more than terminal and my own knowledge.
