I’m planning to install Arch Linux for the first time. Any recommendations on setup, must-have applications, or best practices? Also, what’s something you wish you knew before switching to Arch?

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I didn’t read the documentation so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to use sudo with yay.

    -Ss can be added to pacman to search for packages. Pretty useful if you don’t want to DuckDuckGo them every time.

    As for applications one neat one I don’t see recommended very often is xkill. You can use it to kill applications kind of like you would with the task manager in Windows. htop is probably a closer comparison to the task manager in general though.

    There are a lot of Arch-based distros that are incredibly easy to install if you want a very easy setup process that doesn’t involve a lot of terminal work.

      • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        It does. It gives you this message

        -> Avoid running yay as root/sudo.

        I only ran Debian and Ubuntu based distros up until that point so I thought you always needed to install packages using sudo.

        I am pretty sure I ignored the warning initially because the first couple packages I tried to install with sudo and yay worked.

        This was a while ago.