It’s actually how IT career ladder looks from right to left
Why hate on the sysadmin?
Hate? Where hate? I’m working as sysadmin
You put sysadmins below developers.
Keeping it working versus creating it in the first place.
Well duuuuh, how else will you admin a system with a dev developing the system to admin
Psssst. Lots of devs and sysadmins act like they know a lot more than they do. The more you seek to learn, the more you will realize the breadth of this gap.
There are untouchable wizards of knowledge who nobody knows. There are dipshit idiots who should have never been given sudo on their own network let alone for a fortune 500’s domain controllers.
You’ll never be the best. If you put in any effort, you’ll never be the worst.
I feel seen.
As a developer and sysadmin, I welcome you.
Yeah may I recommend using something simpler than arch. I would recommend Linux mint if u want something that’s not gonna break every 15minutes and give u headache.
Thanks, I am liking the challenge at the moment.
The first step to being really good at something is being willing to be really bad at something while you practice.
‘Suckin’ at somethin is the first step being sorta good at something’ - Jake the dog
I started with Manjaro. Unfucking that system has taught me more than any “stable” distro could. It’s all a matter of determination.
Welcome to the party.
It’s funny that they claim to be more stable than vanilla Arch because of their own repositories. My Manjaro installation broke itself very frequently after half a year of use. My Endeavour now is much more stable and reliable.
Endeavour is just freaking lovely. The community is really chill and welcoming, too.
Also all the ethereal purple space aesthetic is rad. We gotta get them some proper artwork haha. (Some of it seems generated)
The only time i tried manjaro it was broken from the start in the sense that it defaulted to Wayland and didn’t set the appropriate nvidia flags. Back then I knew nothing and didn’t know how to do much of Anything so ended up back to mint lol
I ditched kubuntu for endeavor on my htpc because it was more stable.
😆 I gave up as soon as I lost my GUI
I’m old (not much, though) but back in my day it happened the same thing with people like me. Only that instead Arch+Hyprland it was Compiz Fusion+Beryl because the cube and the flames was the tits.
Also I just happen to be a graphic designer so hopefully this post of yours helps into letting die that idea that Linux is only for devs and sysadmins.
I switched from Windows to Linux last year, after switching from Linux to Windows back in 2007 or so. I was happy to find that not only is the wobbly window effect still available, it’s available out-of-the-box on KDE without installing any other software. It has the cube effect and magic lamp effect when minimizing/unminimizing windows too.
It’s also interesting that AMD went from having the worst Linux graphics driver (fglrx) to the best one. I have some graphical issues with my work PC and laptop (with Nvidia GPUs) that I don’t have with my personal laptop (with AMD GPU).
It’s because AMD went open source with it
Nvidia have an open-source driver now too, but only for 20 series cards and newer, so I can’t use it with my 1080. We’ll see if that improves the drivers significantly.
The way they open-sourced it is by moving a lot of stuff that used to be in the driver into the closed-source firmware. AMD does the same thing though.
So far I have little Wayland annoyances with my Nvidia 30-series card, but I get those with proprietary AND their open drivers. In a weird way I take this as a good sign?
I feel like progress is being made. Even though Nvidia are still a bunch of butts.
(If CUDA weren’t so handy for Blender I’d strongly be considering a swap-out!)
For what it’s worth, I’m seeing fewer bugs in Wayland compared to X11 these days.
Conpiz fusion!.. I’ve created so many problems for myself trying to run it on ATI at the time.
Totally worth it :D
I’ve been playing with Bazzite
Bazzite is so good, especially on the Steam Deck. I did run with Arch for awhile, but ended up switching back to Bazzite when I realized that all I ended up doing was recreating Bazzite in Arch. KDE 6 with all the gaming essentials pre-configured is just so nice.
If you’ve got the drive to learn, there’s no better way to learn than by doing, and there’s a lot of doing in Arch, especially on your first couple of installs. Welcome to the club.
This is how I feel a lot of times. But I did at least have the sense to go for Endeavour rather than straight to Arch (and prior to that, Manjaro and Ubuntu).
Welcome.
Thank you!
You need to end your sentences with “I use Arch btw”, read the Arch wiki for more info
I use Arch btw
That was close…
Hyprland was the first time I had to look up what a window manager was XD
I got this
This pic goes so hard
Why didn’t you just screenshot with slurp /s
I need this as my desktop background lmao
Sadly, I did not know how to Screenshot that, but it definitely would be my background now if I would’ve managed it.
That doesn’t look quite right.
Ah, this is fine.
It’s pretty though
Indeed! I immediately had to take a picture 😂
Doesn’t look totally wrong, either. I mean… there are windows.
Honestly I’m gonna go against what people usually say and say that Arch is better to start with than Ubuntu, as long as you’re not afraid of command line or editing txt files. Whether it’s Arch or Ubuntu, as a noob you’re going to be doing a lot of wiki reading and copying and pasting of commands.
Personally though, a big difference between the two I found is that after a couple of years of copying and pasting commands in Ubuntu, I still didn’t really understand anything about how Linux works behind the scenes. Whereas Arch had me feeling like I too could be a sysadmin, if I felt like it, within a week.
And maybe things are different these days with Ubuntu, it’s been a few years, but I find that Arch has a way more enthusiastic and helpful user base. And the Arch wiki is practically a bible. Whereas searching for problems and solutions in Ubuntu can feel a bit like searching for problems and solutions in Windows, where you’ll probably get copy pasted generic solutions or someone telling you to restart your PC.
Arch as a first distro is an interesting choice.
But likely fr better than my first distro, Slackware.
I had known about the Church of the Subgenius and then heard that there was a Linux distro based on that…
At the time, the wikis were not really up to the task…
These days I run Mint on my writing laptop, and unfortunately am back to Windows on my gaming rig.
But might swap back to Gaurda for gaming…
I agree with you for a hobby OS. Like if somebody wants to learn and knows generally how to back up what they don’t want to lose, Arch is invaluable! I’m currently enjoying EndeavourOS on my gaming laptop for how newb-friendly the community is.
If someone just wants a working machine that allows them to dabble if they’re feeling it, Mint is good for that. Not everyone’s gotta be a sysadmin right?
I personally feel like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a great balance though.
It works, yet it rolls, and you can still mess around if you want. Although it’s sometimes frustrating when it does things differently than Arch or Ubuntu and the advice is scant… But I guess that’s it’s own learning experience!
I occasionally make a project out of learning things like compiling software, but it doesn’t demand too much maintenance when I just need to get stuff done.
I feel like with the Arch distributions like EndeavourOS and CachyOS it’s a lot easier nowadays.
