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Previous thread: >>105809531

FUCKR
GNUGGERS

>>105830167 (OP)
>using Arch unironically
lol. lmao even. do you not value your time?

Flatpaks and Atomic Distros are the future.
Deal with it

>>105830212
I use Arch and do almost zero maintenance. The most I've done in a year is sporadically deal with .pacnew files after running pacman -Syu. And the firmware packages thing recently. That's it, it just works.

>>105829821
No one answered this question. Why is NixOS hard?

>>105830249
must learn the nixos language. who has time for an useless os specific language ? Even if you rely on LLMs which lol you still need to know what you're doing language wise.

>>105830212
Using arch is fun, so time is being very valuable.

>>105830190
So true sister

>>105829795
What are my courses of action if I can't log in? It seems that I broke my desktop environment (the log in screen returned to a more primitive version), but is there some other way to try to log in?

>>105830367
live USB, chroot in, reinstall all the import shit you deleted.

>>105829856
>kicked Win10 to the curve
Curve your enthusiasm

>>105830397
already bothered by things missing from windows lol, when will linux ever be a good enough os

>>105830281
tinkertrooning on ur pc all day instead of actually living life, getting laid, or travelling the world and seeing new things and meeting new people because it's too outside of your confortzone and anything that takes any kind of social skill triggers you so you seclude yourself to machines should be an embarassing enough realization to make you uninstall arch, Anon.

>>105830367
>the log in screen returned to a more primitive version
So you still get the tty login prompt?
Log in on the tty. Check the pacman log. Reinstall all the packages that got uninstalled with your last command. How do you not know how to do this if you're running Arch?

>>105830506
i just got done fucking your mom though. i'm good for now.
tell that bitch to take a shower though.

>>105830532
>So you still get the tty login prompt?
I get the default login screen of plasma, the one that looks bad. I can input the password, but pressing enter does nothing.

>>105830506
I'm sorry to hear that your life is so miserable anon, but I'm sure that even without Arch you can find a way to improve it!

>>105830557
Press ctrl+alt+F3 (also try the other F keys if F2 doesn't work). A terminal login prompt will pop up. Log in and do less /var/log/pacman.log. Look what has been removed with your last pacman command and reinstall the stuff that looks important.

>>105830560
Gonna travel to another country in a week and probably pound some southern european pussy on the way there so i dont really need to improve it much

>be me, linux noob (debian 12 atm)
>has a small server to run a small personal wiki and discord bot
>somehow gotten this far with googling
I have a question that I couldn't really find an answer to by googling. What happens if I, i.e. do "apt-get install apache2" when I already have the apache2 plugin? Would it reinstall/reset it? Would it do nothing?

i love reading man pages where the author clearly hates the end user or just doesn't give a fuck about any sort of professionalism.

>>105830939
I didn't subscribe to your blog loser. lmao Get some friends to talk to.

>>105831264
this isn't very friendly anon

>>105831344
in his defense i did just cornhole his mom and kick her out of my car. i'd be unfriendly too

How often does NixOS break? I wamt to use KDE + Wayland + NixOS.

>>105831405
>KDE

I really like the smooth hardware support and long battery life of running a Macbook Pro, but the experience of actually using the OS sucks donkey dick compared to GNU/Linux. What's the closest I can get to the "it just werkz without kicking the fans on or overheating and lasts all day on a charge" experience for Linux hardware? I'm fine with either x86 or ARM since I don't need gaming.