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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

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Valso

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

It is the best, after using it for 6 years straight! In these 6 years I learned about Linux a lot more than Mint could ever teach me. With Mint I was mostly wasting my time trying to figure out how to fix the constantly broken packages out of thin air. (facepalm)
The only downside of Arch is the LAN card initialization during install. IDK why but the stupid LAN card tends to change its name with every installation - sometimes it's enp4s0, other times it decides to enp4s25 or whatever random number replacing the 0 it wants at the moment of installation which is generally annoying. This is why I avoid reinstalling at all costs and prefer to rely on clonezilla backups.

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

IDK why but the stupid LAN card tends to change its name with every installation...

Here's why, along with a simple fix to avoid that ever happening again:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … face_names

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Valso

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

IDK why but the stupid LAN card tends to change its name with every installation...

Here's why, along with a simple fix to avoid that ever happening again:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … face_names

That's for post-install. I'm not sure if it will work in a booted ISO during installation. But I'll test it some day, if the current installation breaks.

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

It works for the iso - just add the kernel parameter at boot.

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Gregory_M

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

Having originally installed manually a year or two ago, I am grateful for the archinstall script. It provides an efficient and highly functional presentation of installation options. Also pacman is excellent and thank you for pacman. I presume that posting a thread, simply to say thank you, is OK.

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

Thanking people is ok, we even have a dedicated thread that seems appropriate .

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mDuo13

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

Just wanted to share my appreciation that Arch was one of the only distros to patch the CopyFail exploit before disclosure. Maybe that's just business as usual, but credit where it's due for making that the case.

V1del

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

Probably by accident because it was silently fixed in 6.19.12 which simply rolled in the same way the distribution generally updates. Because from what I've heard this wasn't really properly disclosed on the common security mailing lists.

Realsteel99

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Re: The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

it's the best!