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    [–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Endeavour does it for me.

    No nonsense arch setup without any bells and whistles.

    [–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I get that. I do, however, really like how FireDragon comes with a lot of the extension I'd like to use, and with searx as the default web search. It also takes almost no time to switch to a much better KDE layout as opposed to the seemingly script kiddie dr4a6onized default.

    [–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    I wouldn’t use firedragon. It is a very outdated fork of librewolf, which is hardened even more. While librewolf is only a few days behind regular Firefox, firedragon sometimes is months behind making it a horrible choice for security.

    Edit: seems to no longer be the case

    I think it's a fork of floorp not librewolf. But it used to be that way.

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

    You can't install FireDragon on any other Linux distribution?

    [–] traches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    Those two days aren’t really spent configuring, they’re spent learning.

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    [–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    What about just using archinstall?

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I mostly appreciate the pre-installed browser that takes many less steps to harden than a fresh install.

    [–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    If you want a hardened browser try librewolf

    [–] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

    Librewolf is just my go-to on any new install now. Love it ootb.

    [–] Daqu@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's like reaching the top of Mount Everest with oxygen and fixed ropes. You can only brag until you talk to a /real/ climber.

    [–] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

    archinstall saves you like <15 minutes of boilerplate

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

    You can if you break it.

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    [–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

    Two days are worth the years you're gonna spend living with that system.

    [–] PINKeHamton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

    I config like 30 mins a day its never good

    [–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

    2 days?

    You guys stop configuring?

    [–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Garuda breaking after one update

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    [–] lambda@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

    I installed arch last night in less than 20 minutes. The longest part was figuring out how to connect WiFi from the terminal. But I googled it and it was easy.

    [–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I was once checking out Garuda, because the name popped up a handful of times. Outside of the absolutely repulsive front page, the moment i saw unmarked and unexplained “fun scripts” in the installer, i unplugged the installer

    [–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Very fair. I'm a far cry from an advanced user - I know just enough to be dangerous to myself, and didn't see that. As I said in another comment, though, I do like that the default browser is somewhat hardened and uses a decent searx instance as the default search. It does seem to be marketed towards teenagers, though, unfortunately.

    [–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It’s not even really about how advanced you are. Using something more trustworthy, and something you can depend on, is always better. For arch(-based) distributions, i would always recommend Endeavour. Plain Arch will just do it too, if you can follow instructions as listed

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Also archinstall sets you up with a DE of your choice and other basics for day to day use

    [–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I wasn’t a fan of it, personally. I’ve only tried it once, because the regular install takes me less than 10 minutes start to full completion, but didn’t really like some of the opinionated choices for the setup here and there. Still appreciate that it’s there though

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

    Fair enough, I'm just saying it makes things easier for people who feel overwhelmed with the installation process shown by the arch wiki

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