• Felix@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’ve now been daily driving Arch for ~1 year or so. I mean, it works. I’ve only re-installed it once when I bought a new nvme drive. But except that. I’ve kinda gotten used to everything. Nix seems so cool. Everything in a config file, like what? 80k packages in the repo? But Arch is just so comfy, I know how pacman works, everything is up and running perfectly. I’ve installed CachyOS’s x86-64-v3 repos for max performance. My system just works.

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      1 year ago

      See, that’s the feeling Ubuntu/Fedora users had when hearing how Arch would solve all their inexistant problems.

      The bottom line is, there are a lot of Linux distros, most of them are great, so if you’re happy with your choice then so be it!

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        1 year ago

        Yeah. You just have to get used to knowing that there is always going to be a distro which will be “better” than you current one.

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      1 year ago

      Funnily enough, when I upgraded from a SATA SSD to an NVME, I didn’t have to reinstall anything. Instead I just moved the LVM LVs to the NVME and rewrote the boot config. Just booted up from the existing installation without having to install anything.
      Of course, tune2fs reports the right age for the filesystem:

      # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroupSSD-ssdvol | grep created
      Filesystem created:       Thu Jun 16 10:33:49 2022 << This used to be the root fs, inside the SATA SSD
      # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroupSAT-satvol | grep created
      Filesystem created:       Mon Nov 14 14:13:49 2022 << When I bought the NVME and created a new VG just for the SATA drive