But this picture of an empty desktop was far too long in the making. it took me a week to succesfully install Arch. I could do the process start to finish, blindfolded, at this point.
Finally, after endless hours of repeating the same steps over and over again, trying to word google searches in just the right way to get just that one specific answer to that one absurd issue, re-reading guides and links over and over again trying to find the single missed Sentence that ties everything together and finally. Finally.
It may seem kinda stupid to consider that an accomplishment, but I feel quite genuinely proud of myself for actually succeeding at this instead of just throwing in the towel and giving up like I usually do when I try and take on new hobbies, and don’t immediately succeed.
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I partially agree. Installing from a script saves time and energy, but installing manually allows you to learn and have a deeper understanding for your computer (along with giving you more control). I’d say install from scratch once, install from a script the rest of the time, in my opinion it’s worth it to have the extra understanding of how everything works, and also then you can audit the script you’ll be using.
The fight is how you learn :). Good job persevering.
It may seem kinda stupid to consider that an accomplishment, but I feel quite genuinely proud of myself for actually succeeding at this instead of just throwing in the towel…
Way to go. I’ve been at this a decent while and do some pretty esoteric stuff at work and at home… but this loop of feeling stupid, doing the work, and feeling good about a success has been a constant throughout. I spent a week struggling to port some advanced container setups to podman a month or so ago, same feeling of pride when I got them humming.
It’s not stupid to be proud of an accomplishment even if it’s a fundamental one that’s early in a bigger learning curve. Soak it in, then on to the next high. Good luck.
I love that feeling. I’ve recently been learning about zfs as I add it to my server and make use of it in my setup. In doing so I had to utilize my container and data backups to migrate data from a single drive to my new zfs raidz array. I felt damn accomplished after doing so!
Welcome to the cool kids club 😎
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Got me curious, what absurd issue did you run into? I’ve successfully installed Arch along with the DE & all the apps with no issue many times.
Awesomeness
It doesn’t seem like nothing at all! Great job and welcome to the fam!
Wow this takes me back to the first time I set up a FreeBSD desktop. That sense of accomplishment, I mean, wow. I haven’t felt that in a while.
Maybe I’ll build a new system with Funtoo… or I could go real crazy and use NetBSD…
Insert Evangelion Congratulations scene
All that - and then you end up using Gnome?!
