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submitted 1 day ago by Cikos@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

recently i just finished building a new pc. mostly for gaming since my only exposure to linux is steam os and i heard its uses arch with kde plasma so i try to emulate it as close as i can. however soon i realized how different it is and it requires more setup than i initially thought. i spent a whole day or two setting it up and i read now im responsible on maintaining it, what does it mean? is it just finding and testing drivers? or system update? what is the easiest way to do it? and what i getting myself into?

when i was about to install steam i found a tutorial on it with 3 - 4 pages full of text and was a bit overwhelmed, i decided just set it up using discover with flatpak, the problem is when i was about to find out how to do that i read mostly people really hate when you ask how to enable it in arch, is it really bad? should i just use konsole instead?

im not very tech savvy and at first I was really reluctant to use konsole but since i decided to use arch its inevitable that i have to use konsole and so far its not that bad, yet.

I'm just wondering for the long term, should i just change distro? or i should just powertrough arch and see where it goes.

thank you for your time.

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[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

So OP should start over? Just offering your unnecessary opinion? (Remember they read this) Go with the compliment and move on

[-] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Yes start over.

Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS, Fedora.

Save your important files on a separate drive, install your new beginner friendly OS of choice, and don’t be afraid to break it. A reinstall from a USB stick takes like 15 minutes, and with your important files stored separately you don’t have to think twice about wiping the system and starting over.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

OP should follow their chosen path and we should commend them for their efforts and support their choices rather than tell them they did it wrong and start over according to our opinions.

[-] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Op was asking for advice. You have different advice? Give it. I don’t care what you think of my advice.

this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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