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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You have earned the right to use btw keyword in your future posts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Insert Evangelion Congratulations scene

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You made it!

This was my experience too the first times. It was quite hard to get it booting, so many things to learn.

And the best part is, nothing else about Linux is more difficult to understand. It's all easier from here. Learning about systemd, or config files... It's easy compared to just getting that install to work.