• MTK@lemmy.world
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    The thing about arch, is that if you have a basic understanding of the terminal and computers, the arch wiki can get from that level to a real expert.

    So if you ask me, anyone with a basic understanding of the terminal, and a goal to improve, should go with arch.

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      This was my experience just setting it up as dualboot and not doing super much with it. Sure I failed installing it a few times but I came out with more understanding of file systems, and in the end the wiki told me everything I needed to know.

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        I installed Slackware from 24 floppies I downloaded from a Volkerdings personal server, because I didn’t have a CD ROM. I installed using documentation printed on a dot matrix printer that was versions out of date… It took a day to compile a kernel. I’ve had to manually patch drivers (3c509 baaabyyy).

        I dreamed about a future where I never had to do that again. Arch pisses me off.

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        Know how to use it, understand the basic file system structure, know basic commands (ls, which, cat, mkdir, chmod)