Will installing Arch Linux help me learn how to use the Kom-pu-tah? I realized I have a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to the infrastructure of computers and the internnet and I want to fix that.

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Anonymous 07-03-26 17:11:29 No.764519

Will installing Arch Linux help me learn how to use the Kom-pu-tah? I realized I have a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to the infrastructure of computers and the internnet and I want to fix that.

Anonymous 07-03-26 17:12:48 No.764521

no need to learn linux. just download windows 11 and use google chrome as a web browser. everything just works.

Anonymous 07-03-26 17:16:27 No.764524

There's no need to install Arch specifically, it's a meme. Most Linux distros work perfectly well for exposing how things work under the hood. Much more valuable to read a good book about operating systems and experiment on your own in tandem

Anonymous 07-03-26 17:25:03 No.764526

Yes. It's also very fun. Just back up any important data first because you are sure to break something the first few times.

Anonymous 07-03-26 17:41:26 No.764531

I'd say Linux Mint would acclimate you quicker.

Prof. Palinka 07-03-26 17:43:53 No.764532

Computer says no

Anonymous 07-03-26 17:53:42 No.764536

>Arch
Yeah good luck you idiot

Anonymous 07-03-26 18:18:09 No.764552

>>764521
linuxcels will get mad but its literally true. bo sane person wants to spend 50 hours just to get an mp3 file to play

Glownonymous 07-03-26 20:32:08 No.764579

>>764552
>spend 50 hours just to get an mp3 file to play

install alsa
install mplayer
write 'pcm.!default hw:0' to /etc/asound.conf
type mplayer file.mp3

It's literally that simple.

Anonymous 07-03-26 20:36:16 No.764581

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>>764521
>>764552
Plus Windows is much more secure from an admin standpoint.
>copilot, prevent the user from downloading virus
>can't download virus without internet

Glownonymous 07-03-26 21:01:52 No.764585

>>764581
>deleting the internet
sounds it was written by a closeted redditoid

Anonymous 07-03-26 22:40:12 No.764600

>>764585
That's likely how windows users are describing then issue in bug reports.

Anonymous 07-03-26 22:52:17 No.764602

>>764579
Conveniently skip the whole process of actualling finding out where this information is in the first place, in very opinionated space where you will get 5 different answers

Anonymous 07-03-26 23:11:48 No.764605

>>764602
5 different replies*, none of which are an actual answer, its just a techbro smugly judging you, then getting into an autistic slapfight with another techbro over which distro is better until an unemployed moderator closes your thread for being a "duplicate question" (it was asked once in 2004, just look for it you worthless chvd)

Anonymous 07-03-26 23:14:32 No.764606

>>764579
You forgot the part where you gotta have silent audio playing to keep alsa active.
>>764602

search "linux music player" and pick one the same way you would for windows.
encounter arch linux specific audio issue, two options
- search "arch linux audio" and hack something together
- install a works-out-of-the-box distro like Linux Mint or KDE Linux
install vlc
double click file and it opens in vlc.

Anonymous 07-03-26 23:18:35 No.764607

>>764605
As an ex-windows user, the documentation for windows ain't better, just the options are even more poorly documented and you'll get stuck trying to figure out what a .ddl file is.

Glownonymous 08-03-26 05:27:47 No.764650

>>764606
I don't know what you're getting at. Setting a soundcard as the default device makes it so every program accesses it directly. You could also set pcm.cards.!default and access dmix, the preconfigured software mixing device, instead.

The only problem with alsa is that nu-linux shitapps, like every modern web browser, want to talk to pulseaudio instead. They will start it on their own if it is installed, but you will have to set the default alsa device as the default sink to prevent PA from trying exclusive hardware access in parallel to your own filterchain and my current distro pulls in alsa-pulse-plugins, which sets the alsa default device to PA and cannot be overwritten, unless you remove /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-set-pulse-default.conf manually on each update.

Linux audio could be so simple…

Anonymous 08-03-26 05:35:05 No.764652

>>764650
Well back when I used arch whenever there was more than 5 seconds of actual quiet there'd be like a second and a half of spin up any time audio happened.

I got around that by putting a command to mpv to play a hum at a frequency over or under human hearing range at all times at the top of my i3 config. In no other distro have I encountered that issue, and that might not be an issue with arch currently but that's what I dealt with when I used it for a couple years or so.

Anonymous 08-03-26 06:02:36 No.764657

Recommend me linux distros with very small idle ram usage. I need a GUI tho.

Glowing Alexandria Occasio Cortez 08-03-26 07:16:04 No.764670

>>764652
What was your ouptut device? This sounds more like something was wrong with your audio chain in general.

Lola Rodríguez de Tió 08-03-26 09:46:12 No.764683

>>764657
lubuntu

Louise Michel 08-03-26 11:37:25 No.764715

>>764607
you dont even need to read documentation gor windows. you just do things and it works

Tamara Bunke 08-03-26 12:00:55 No.764719

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>>764715

Jiang Qing 08-03-26 14:34:30 No.764738

>>764715
>open windows
>a bunch of toggles to turn off, some will turn back on their own
>candy crush is a launch-on-boot applictation and requires powershell shit to uninstall just like cortana, copilot, discord, microsoft edge and smileystoolbar for microsoft edge.
>immediately search for librewolf on edge
>search engine itself has a special blurb literally begging you to keep using edge for your gooning needs.
>you have to download an .exe because windows doesn't have a proper package manager, though there is a 3rd party one called chocolatey, sorta like pacman is to arch.
>exectute the .exe and then forget it's in your downloads folder, resulting in clutter as you have to download like 30 more .exes because nothing preinstalled on windows is remotely usable
>install ublock
>get a notification that outlook has moved your files to cloud and then deleted it for being more than 5 minutes old
>look up one of those "debloat windows" tutorials telling you to do a bunch of arcane commandline shit in an inbred looking terminal that specifically tried to be as alien to unixlike conventions as possible. Like the /'s inbetween folders are \ instead because / serves the function of -
>Decide it's not worth it and you can just not click on them for now, you can follow it later if you need more RAM for games.
>get a popup for microsoft teams, a discord alternative that exists despite microsoft owning discord.
>close windows
>it refuses, installing an update
>it corrupts every drive on every windows PC on the planet

Ghislaine Maxwell 08-03-26 17:30:07 No.764779

>>764738
>exectute the .exe and then forget it's in your downloads folder, resulting in clutter as you have to download like 30 more .exes because nothing preinstalled on windows is remotely usable

this is just tech iliteracy on your behalf. make folders uygha

Valentina Grizodubova 08-03-26 17:53:02 No.764785

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>>764715
At this point distros like Pop!_OS or Mint are easier to work with than Windows. Even if you are used to windows, acclimating to linux is less time consuming than constantly having to fight with the cursed thing over control of your own computer.

Jiang Qing 08-03-26 18:08:09 No.764788

>>764785
Yeah I got my dad to switch and he got used to it within a week or so.

Malala Yousafzai 08-03-26 19:57:08 No.764829

>>764779
Insanely accurate name for the freud poster lmao

Celia Sánchez 08-03-26 22:59:46 No.764893

>>764519
yes, just follow the instructions, it will teach you a bit about computers but esp about linux, so long as you can read and take things slowly you will be ok. it really aint as hard as people say it is

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