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idk gaming on arch works ootb on the 4 computers I've tried on, I've had no issues with it so far except when I tried to try some really experimental things with my gpu drivers. Every game I've tried works fine, and things like Steam and Lutris work just as well as on other distros.

also the archinstall TUI script comes with the installer and does the installation for you.

I'm honestly kinda tired of people making out arch as difficult/brittle without having tried it properly, it probably comes from the community latching onto the overused joke of "i use arch btw", and so wanting to view arch as inferior in some way because they don't want to be associated with the imaginary stereotypical arch user that doesn't actually exist.

It's probably also compounded by beginner arch users wanting to seem superior and above the others, so they present arch as something only them with their superior intellect could ever handle.

arch just works in my experience.

they just said they're proficient with linux in their post, did you read it?

the thinkpad E/L series are also kinda gnarly

bro you have no idea what you're talking about

if you are comfortable enough with cli and Linux you should try arch for the desktop, it'll be probably easier in the long run because games are fussy and you can refer to the wiki and use the AUR

Misunderstanding these people may make the problem simpler and may make you feel good about yourself, but it doesn't do much to address their actual beliefs.

very well said, I see a lot of arguments on lemmy devolving into this (probably because our communities are pretty much all left leaning) but it'd be nice if we could actually try to understand these people.

in the future if you want to do this again qpwgraph might be a easier way to do it

i remember in one case sway didn't autogen its config for me, so I had to get it myself

This definitely wasn't my experience, what USB drive are you using?

If you're looking for a good USB drive I highly recommend the standard Sandisk Ultra (the bulky usb3.0 one) , it's very performant and reliable for the price.

that just depends on how comfortable the instance owner is, if i was hosting I'd ip block the UK

deleting windows should be really easy and straightforward, all you need to do to clean the system up is to delete the windows partitions, reformat the EFI partition, expand your linux partition, and reinstall grub (this can all be done from a usb boot drive)

tbh if the government demanded fediverse servers do this then they'll probably comply as well, I really don't think this is apple's fault as much as i hate them and every similar tech megacorps