Guess I must be an alien then. (That’s ‘pure’ sway – no toolbars, icons… nothing. I use my own dmenu-esque app to run binaries.)
Definitely Not GustavoM. :^)
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3·28 days agoForgot to mention it also has a “poor man’s htop” at the top center of the screen, that fetches memory and cpu usage at each keystroke (only). Definitely not for the “powerhouse PC gamer” out there, but for the potatoes (raspberry pi zero, a very old router, etc).
This is why I don’t care about privacy anymore and use whatever browser works better in my pc/sbc (brave) followed by a network ad-blocker solution (nextdns).
“But can Linux install things via a single .exe file? HAHAH EAT IT NERD!”
- 10’ish years ago past me, before discovering the magical wonders of the package manager
- How to do the most basic things
How to search for a package:
sudo pacman -Ss packagenameHow to install a package:
sudo pacman -S packagenameHow to update:
sudo pacman -SyuHow to remove a package:
sudo pacman -Rcns packagenameHow to clean old packages:
sudo pacman -Sc --noconfirmArch linux installer (official):
archinstall…and that is (pretty much) all you need to learn to use Arch linux in an acceptable fashion. Now go ahead and give it a spin – you’ll love it.
Simply put – you’ve got to realize a couple things:
1- Linux is not Windows.
2- Use Linux like a brand new type of software you never heard about – do not make any pre-assumptions.
3- Use Google to search for the most simple things, including “How do I install something on (Linux distro name you’ve chosen)”?
4- Have some patience – you won’t learn (everything) on day one. There will be mistakes, there will be problems you will not solve em today. But you will solve em tomorrow.
And here’s a little “cheat sheet” of mine on how to use (and get used with) linux:
1- Get used how to use the package manager. (Where you will search and install stuff.)
2- Learn what are your audio and graphic packages (The “drivers”) are. (See 3- above.)
3- Learn how to run the stuff you installed.
4- Learn how you configure the distro to your liking.
Learn all these four steps, and you can consider yourself a linux “pro” user.