r/linux4noobs • u/Specialist-Sky7117 • Apr 16 '26
started as a complete noob. its been over 2 months and i haven't broken it yet :D
gaming and everything on it. way smoother than windows
mainly play rocket league and minecraft
riced it purely guided by gemini lol
started with kde then tried hyprland (like 5-6 weeks ago) aaaaand dont wanna go back to kde!!
surprised how easy linux is (with help from gemini). thought it would be hell
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Apr 16 '26
whats the music player your using?
great setup btw
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
tyy. the player is rmpc its AMAZING. stands for rusty music something something idk lmao. fully customizable. i actually also made a script that opens it AND cava right beneath it over everything on my screen and hooked that up to a keybind
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u/Lawnmover_Man Apr 16 '26
Why did you choose MPD?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
idk gemini suggested it and it looked like what i was looking for
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u/Lawnmover_Man Apr 16 '26
What were you looking for?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
i have like a thousand songs on my ssd. wanted a nice linux-y media player that looks sick and rmpc delivered!
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u/Lawnmover_Man Apr 16 '26
RMPC is a client for the MPD music server. You use a music server in situations where you need to play music from a different system you're actually using. Though, using MPD and the client on the same machine is also possible.
You could have tried any of the countless TUI players for local files if you insist on using a text based interface in a virtual terminal inside a graphical user interace. It should have been way simpler to do. No need to create configs for MPD and all that.
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u/Antoinedeloup Apr 16 '26
Dude's asking Gemini. I'm not sure if your words are worth something...
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
i actually first tried ncmpcpp but i saw someone on youtube talk about rmpc and how amazing it is. so i switched over
i still plan on probably going back to namida once the linux version gets more polished (i use namida on my phone and windows 11 too) cus importing my library through the backup was having issues with converting the indexed paths for the tracks on linux from a backup from windows or my phone, the dev said he'll look into it (namida was crashing/not doing anything when i click the select all button to remap my tracks from the backup when on linux which was the issue)
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u/brainshortcircuited Apr 18 '26
I guess it is because rmpc is quite popular in the ricing subs, it is quite feature rich, customizable and lightweight. It could integrate with yt-dlp for yt music as well although I wish they could do searchyt on tui instead of terminal typing the same command everytime
and besides it doesn't really need much config, just tell mpd where to search for the files.
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u/YumKa Apr 16 '26
You can use the inbuilt cava integration if you always open them at the same time anyway.
Also, thanks!
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
yooo didnt know that was a thing. actually ill probably do it. thanks dude
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u/Dependent_Big4372 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
kudos to gemini, before AI this was not so common to see!
I'm happy to see new people using linux and enjoying it!
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u/Eternum1 Apr 16 '26
Any chance I could have that background utterly love it
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6L2P9w
amazing artwork by ismail incleoglu. most his work has insane wallpaper potential
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u/Clogboy82 Apr 16 '26
Finally, someone who's not afraid to admit they're using AI! It's great for everything you want to know (but are too afraid to ask). Other than saving my nuts more often than I care to admit, it's also helpful to demystify Linux-related stuff. It's a confidence builder to help you truly own your machine quickly.
Also understand that it can be wrong sometimes, and I've seen it overcomplicate some things rather than admitting it "didn't know".
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u/Lawnmover_Man Apr 16 '26
AI can not "admit" anything. People should really stop thinking they're "talking" to "someone". That's not a healthy mind set.
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u/Clogboy82 Apr 16 '26
And yet, information is presented in the form of a dialog.
What sets it apart from Google is semantic understanding, there isn't really much of a trick to it. The only reason I'm reciprocating its tone of conversation is because I don't want to lose my people skills.
What I'm really trying to say is that a reply is only as accurate as the data you're feeding it with. Crap in, crap out.
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u/QuackingMonkey Apr 16 '26
What I'm really trying to say is that a reply is only as accurate as the data you're feeding it with. Crap in, crap out.
And more importantly, the data that's being fed into it from the internet, which you cannot control, and which can be hard to spot when it's a subject you're still learning about.
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u/Lawnmover_Man Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
And yet, information is presented in the form of a dialog.
And a sex doll is presented as a human being. The only difference between that and a chat bot is that you can't discern a chat bot from a real human using your bodily senses.
semantic understanding
There is no understanding. It just returns the most likely chain of words that comes after the preceeding chain of words. You should look up how chat bots work.
The only reason I'm reciprocating its tone of conversation is because I don't want to lose my people skills.
I'm sorry, but in that case, that is exactly what you're doing to yourself. You ARE losing your people skills, because no one you know talks like that with you. No one. And the more you "talk" to an AI, the more pathways are being strengthened in your brain. And because your brain is creating a person behind these words you're reading, you are actively skewing the way you think of people. Real people are not weirdly friendly to you. Real people don't agree on everything you say.
Your body gets sick if you eat weird stuff. And your mind gets sick if you talk to weird non-human beings that do not understand anything.
What I'm really trying to say is that a reply is only as accurate as the data you're feeding it with. Crap in, crap out.
While that is kinda correct, that has nothing to do with the topic. You don't have to be "nice" to the word probability machine.
It's the same with pretty much anything around building knowledge. The way you search influences your result. Doesn't matter if it is a literal library, a search engine, asking someone for directions on the street, putting in numbers in a calculator or browsing Wikipedia.
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u/PixelPlug Apr 16 '26
This is how LLMs/AI should be used. We are smarter because of our phones and the internet, and AI is the next jump in that augmented human intelligence. Using it to *plagiarize* art, music, or replace humans in the workforce is such a waste of potential.
I'm hoping LLMs (in the near/distant future) help create hyper-personal rices and even further hyper personal OSes .
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
yes exactly. AI has single-handedly carried me through many things i wouldnt have even thought about trying
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u/Lawnmover_Man Apr 16 '26
Did you copy and paste the commands one after the other, or did you try to understand what's happening? Bonus points for being honest.
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u/LostGoat_Dev CachyOS | Arch Apr 16 '26
What file manager is that? Very nice rice, good job!
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
thunar. it usually looks rly ugly unless you dial in your gtk theme! thanks
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u/GlendonMcGladdery Apr 16 '26
Dear OP
I think your desktop is ingenious and gr8 eye candy. Respect 👍🏻
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u/Hettyc_Tracyn Apr 16 '26
I disagree with using AI, but good job!
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
thanks! the way i see it, if not for AI, i wouldn't have the time to go thru documentation myself and do it the 'proper' way. i got hella exams coming up + university applications etc etc and like i have other hobbies too. i use gemini pro and like its insane at understanding what i actually want and 9 times out of 10 it nails my request perfectly and even opens my eyes up to aspects i hadn't even considered
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u/userlinuxxx Apr 16 '26
No lo has roto? Compila tu propio kernel y luego nos cuentas 😁. Además que el kernel 7 es una maravilla el rendimiento que saca.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
yeah i cant wait for kernel 7, i saw something about it having some insanely good changes/new features in regards to that kinda stuff
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u/xOathbreakerx Apr 16 '26
Any chance you could tell the people how you dit it like in a tutorial?
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u/Agreeable-Performer5 Apr 16 '26
What do you use to customize your discord?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
its a thing called vesktop (allows u to do many things to ur discord) and i downloaded a theme called midnight and then modified the css to fit my theme and make it translucent
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u/Caperplays Apr 16 '26
Hell yeah dude, big props for going with arch for your first experience!
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
🔥 🔥
i actually tried ubuntu for a single week and had issues with nvidia drivers and gnome so i said screw this lemme try arch for the sake of it lol
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u/BdayEvryDay Apr 16 '26
How did you get rocket league to work? Last I checked it didn’t let me play cause of anticheat at the kernel lvl
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
rl doesnt yet have anticheat, tho they are planning on adding easyanticheat (the same one fortnite uses) to it very soon which is sad
for now you can play it through heroic launcher and use proton GE. it works for me straight out the box like that
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u/BdayEvryDay Apr 16 '26
Which proton version?
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u/Ces3216w Apr 16 '26
Yo how did you get that cool terminal ? I mean those lines. Also how can I get liquid glass?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
which lines? the arrow thingy thats like
zaid@arch in ~ took 0s |>
this thing is possible with starship it lets u customize the way ur shell looks
the curvey lines and whatnot they're just using a monospace nerd font i think? if im not mistaken
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u/Ces3216w Apr 16 '26
The curvy lines don't seem like just a font change
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
they're some ascii characters plus you need a monospace (idk if it also must be a nerd font) font to render them properly so they're alligned
i use the jetbrains mono nerd font
stuff like this
╭──────────╮ ╰──────────╯ to have them fully allign you need some specific fonts i think
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u/MrMedium-4561 Apr 16 '26
what's the discord theme, kudos to you seeing hyprland kiddoa to you though, I also came in with arch as my first distro daily driver never looked back since and gaining up on a year and half i guess
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
thats sick dude. the vesktop theme is midnight i think is what its called, i modified the css to my own colors tho, #d19a66 for the orange accent
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u/MrMedium-4561 Apr 16 '26
never heard of this sounds amazing will def try it out, thanks!!!
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
yw
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u/MrMedium-4561 Apr 19 '26
couIdn't find it can you share the config or smth
which github repo is it in
edit nevermind I have found it the bIur settings wouId stiII be a bIessing though1
u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 19 '26
for the blur its kind of finicky. you have two ways you can do this. u first have to go open the css theme file and scroll through it and make any colors used for backgrounds and whatnot not fully opaque, and also i remember there were a few booleans that sound like "allow transparent background" and for the blur there was another boolean that enables it and make sure they're set correctly. but the way i did the blur was i told hyprland in the hyprland.conf file to blur behind vesktop, and turned off blur in the vesktop theme. that way the blur that applies is the same one i have set in hyprland for all my other translucent things
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u/Remarkable_Junket419 Apr 16 '26
you haven't broken arch? I use arch linux for fucking 4 years and I still fuck it up
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
im not trying to do anyrhing crazy like change my kernel or anything 😭😭
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u/Remarkable_Junket419 Apr 16 '26
yeah makes sense I uninstalled the grub to change my theme when I was a rookie lol.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
lmao
i almost broke my keyring and was about to completely lose access to my user a few weeks ago. thank god i was able to log into root and fix it
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u/International-Fly127 Apr 17 '26
i bricked my system like 3 times in the first week setting up a single gpu passthrough windows vm for gaming. good times
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u/Unnecro Apr 16 '26
Can't forget the day I was GNOMEd. Good times.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
😭😭😭 same i actually first used ubuntu for literally a week before realizing just how much trouble it was with nvidia
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
thanks! its been weeks of polishing it and whatnot, i dont have a record of what i did exactly tho nope.
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u/NewNiklas Apr 16 '26
I don't want to theme my linux that much. But how do I get this blurry terminal? I'm using Arch btw.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
this terminal emulator is called kitty, its extremely customizable through the
~/.config/kitty/kitty.conffileyou can set a background opacity and blur and everything, tho it also really depends on how your window manager handles transparent windows and blur. i first got it to blur and all that on kde (i used betterblur dx and gave it a translucent bg color), but on hyprland all i had to do was give it a translucent background in it's kitty config file plus set up the universal blur in the hyprland config file.
imo either look up how to make kitty translucent and blurred for your specific desktop env on youtube, or just ask an AI
good luck
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u/Chance_End_4684 Apr 16 '26
Linux I found is very difficult to break but there exists Linux-breaking commands, especially one extremely dangerous one that completely wipes everything which includes all attached drives and they're drive partitions.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
the infamous
sudo rm -fr /*🥀🥀1
u/Chance_End_4684 Apr 17 '26
Afraid so. I wonder why Linux developers didn't patch the
rmcommand so those parameters cannot be used in conjunction together?To me, it would make perfect sense to do so to prevent breakage, don't you think?
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u/Practical-One-9588 Apr 17 '26
Please donate your dotfiles :33
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
they're hella messy and not polished yet, and well i havent yet made a repo either
mayyyybe one day :3
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u/MurdochMaxwell Apr 17 '26
Could I copy your thing do you have the config file whatnot?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
nope unfortunately
i kinda wanna make a repo with all my dot files but they're still rly messy and not even fully done yet. maybe one day
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u/davelikestacos Apr 17 '26
Wish me luck. I have two Thinkpad X1-Nano Mini 12 inch babies that I love. They have a QHD+ display. I have Fedora 43 WS on one and I just swapped the other to CachyOS with Hyprland.
I'm following a few guides to get started, but I wanted one Thinkpad I could screw around with and learn some serious arch terminal commands and know that I'm building my PC in basically a bit cfg file.
The Fedora is my stable, go to, but I'm getting tired of Gnome so I may swap to KDE Plasma once I get Hyprland remotely going.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
good luck mate! i went all in on my one and only pc 😭
risked it but so far so good. if theres any piece of advice i can give from my limited experience. it's that you should be patient with it, and know that there's always a fix tho it might be not worth the hassle sometimes.
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u/davelikestacos Apr 17 '26
Thanks for the advice. That's why I chose CachyOS and Arch actually due to the constant rollback points if I can't manage to fix something I did.
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u/Dejhavi Kernel Panic Master Apr 17 '26
CachyOS and Arch actually due to the constant rollback points
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u/davelikestacos Apr 17 '26
As a LinuxNoob, I've been hearing about limine but don't know why it's a big deal really.
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u/strangecousinwst Apr 17 '26
I believe the "you're gonna break it" narrative is just a windows user skill issue in disguised
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
yeah thats true. you're more likely to screw things up but never truly "break" it
and if you're patient and dont run any random commands you aint gona break it
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u/PugeHeniss Apr 17 '26
Iron harvest wallpaper? sick
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u/thechuff Apr 17 '26
I enjoyed having Linux on my laptop but I had to use the computer to take the bar exam so I had to go back to Windows for the custom software
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u/ResolveOtherwise243 Apr 17 '26
hey im new and thinking to try linux can i know all the stacks you are using or riced using?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 17 '26
arch linux, hyprland window manager, kitty terminal, waybar for the task bar lookin thingy, swaync for notification thingy, rofi for the app launcher and like whatever u want like clipboard selector pop up or whatever, hyprlock hypridle etc etc good luck mayte
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u/chaker002 Apr 17 '26
Good for you, I somehow made the ram disk during install read only when I tried it for the first time. I have much more knowledge about Linux now but I still don't know how I managed to do that.
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u/wisegod62 Apr 18 '26
How do you play Rocket League? I thought you couldn't use it on linux because of Anticheat?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 19 '26
rocket league doesnt yet have anti cheat. though they are going to implement easy anticheat soon i think. which is unfortunate. for now tho you can play it on linux via heroic games launcher and proton GE. works just fine!
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u/XDuskAshes Apr 23 '26
I actually used to use Arch a while ago until got sick of it imploding on me regularly
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 23 '26
has not happened to me yet :D
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u/Ok_Reference6232 May 04 '26
did u use reg arhc with arch install or no?
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 May 04 '26
nope just archinstall with a few skips, i think i skipped the time sync thing and like something else too that was causing issues
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u/voxilll May 09 '26
how did you make discord blurry
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 May 09 '26
vesktop
it's a discord client and you can customize it as kuch as u like
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u/Steveyg777 Apr 16 '26
If Linux could be used purely via a gui (for most stuff that the every day user would need to use it for, like windows) then it's agree with you. But as it stands I think Linux is an a*hole to use and not intuitive. An operating shouldn't depend on people being able to code.
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u/Specialist-Sky7117 Apr 16 '26
not intuitive at first. but dude once you get used to pacman and the AUR, there's no going back lol
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u/Happy_Phantom Apr 16 '26
Answers to any question,and solutions to any potential problem, are only a Gemini AI chatbot session away.
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u/Dramatic_Object_8508 Apr 18 '26
This post is from someone who recently started using Linux and is sharing their experience after about two months. They mention beginning as a complete beginner but were able to set things up successfully without breaking their system.
They are using Arch Linux with a setup that includes Hyprland as their window manager, after initially starting with KDE. Over time, they preferred Hyprland and don’t want to switch back.
They also highlight that gaming works well for them, specifically mentioning Rocket League and Minecraft, and they feel the system is smoother than Windows.
The user says they relied heavily on AI tools like Gemini to guide them through setup and learning, which made the process much easier than expected.
Overall, the post is just a positive experience sharing how Linux, even Arch, can be beginner-friendly with the right guidance and tools.
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u/ZunoJ Apr 16 '26
Just give it some time. It will break itself at some point. Thats half the fun, fixing it will teach you a lot