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Saturday, March 14, 2026

[21:43:16] truthwillout dsax: Arch Linux?

[21:44:09] truthwillout Is it easy to use in comparison to regular linux / debina / fedora?

[21:44:12] truthwillout debian*

[21:45:41] truthwillout Yeah, I tried to set it up once, and gave up

[21:45:48] truthwillout Installation process was beyond me

[21:45:57] truthwillout Do you think noobies like myself could get used to using Arch?

[21:46:09] truthwillout k

[21:46:16] truthwillout Used to be a terminal, no?

[21:47:38] truthwillout yeah I saw that installation process and ran away,

[21:47:45] truthwillout is artix a version od arch?

[21:47:47] truthwillout of*

[21:48:09] truthwillout Would be nice NOT to have the backdoor that is systemc

[21:48:11] truthwillout systemd*

[21:48:14] truthwillout Fucking backdoors hacks for NSA

[21:48:31] truthwillout brb

[21:51:06] truthwillout Linux Mint LMDE is amazing

[21:51:09] truthwillout LMDE 7 is stable AF

[21:51:22] truthwillout XFCE has some minor tweaks that need to be made - but LMDE is basically ready to go

[21:51:28] truthwillout dsax: Do you use XFCE?

[21:51:33] truthwillout cinammon - nice - same as LMDE

[21:53:41] truthwillout nice

[21:54:06] truthwillout 22.3 yeah

[21:54:14] truthwillout I will go back to xfce when 23 comes out

[21:54:45] truthwillout There was a specific issue - I asked Mint team about it, they didn't know what it would be: Basically I had no internet connection within vm's, inside host Mint 22.3

[21:55:11] truthwillout Three different VM programs had same issue - so I just reinstalled LMDE 7 and wam - it works !

[21:55:21] truthwillout Their awesome respsonse was: Yeah - it is debian - of course it would wokr!

[21:55:23] truthwillout work*

[21:55:25] truthwillout lol

[21:55:56] truthwillout right?

[21:56:01] truthwillout Otherwise, it was perfect

[21:56:19] truthwillout yeah man, debian is best host imho

[21:56:33] truthwillout which version is it you think?

[21:56:37] truthwillout I've only been using Debian since 9

[21:56:45] truthwillout k

[21:57:10] truthwillout Someone I met on OFTC said he had a security system still running (for years without issues 24/7) on Debian 9

[21:57:25] truthwillout 13 nw?

[21:57:28] truthwillout yeah, 13 already

[21:59:07] truthwillout yeah that is cool to hear

[21:59:14] truthwillout Mint is my fav

[21:59:16] truthwillout I love their team.

[21:59:38] truthwillout ^ good advice

[21:59:46] truthwillout I love their .deb installer

[21:59:53] truthwillout k

[21:59:55] truthwillout Thanks, never heard of it

[21:59:59] truthwillout Do you know Kodachie?

[22:00:01] truthwillout Kodachi*?

[22:00:15] truthwillout Put that on a Live USB sometime, and try using it for VPN browsing.

[22:00:21] truthwillout It is quite nice for free VPN's

[22:00:59] truthwillout I reinstalled Linux / Debian hundreds of times

[22:01:02] truthwillout In order to learn it

[22:01:04] truthwillout lol

[22:01:10] truthwillout I fucked up so many installs using terminal early onn

[22:01:45] truthwillout heh

[22:01:53] truthwillout Ya terminal is fun as hell, still learning

[22:03:06] truthwillout true that

[22:03:17] truthwillout surprising how some of the skillsets with powershell / command prompt carry over in principle

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