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Going to use Arch on a VM, which should I use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to get into Arch Linux, but I don't have that much experience and I feel like it'll be easier to set it up in a virtual machine rathen than dual booting, I've used Oracle VirtualBox before but it's very laggy. Are there any other VMs that aren't as laggy, or do I just have a hardware issue?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't worry, if he installs Arch from scratch, it will take him a long time before even having internet connection or installing X.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just a meme. If you can follow some basic instructions, you can setup arch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This. There's archinstall now, too. A bit buggy in my experience so I prefer the old fashioned way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dunno why are people spreading this myth... Arch is not that hard to install and you don't get a gold medal for installing it. I installed it with LXDE in an office machine, it only took me an hour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends, I installed it from base, text mode, I had to edit some config file to add my network interface and systemctl restart network etc, then pacman to install X, Xfce, etc, by hand. I guess the best thing is to install Manjaro for instance, it takes a few minutes and you have full GUI and everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck Manjaro. EndeavorOS ftw.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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