Gentoo Linux. Into the deep end!

(Starting off with something like mint or pop!os is probably your best bet, EndeavourOS is a good choice too but it’s a little bit more effort for a first distro)

Me during my exams this week

It may not have been dark out but it was still pretty cool seeing shadows get messed up and seeing the sun get covered through eclipse glasses.

Definitely hoping to travel to one of the total eclipses in the later 20s/30s tho

I don’t actually think eclipse is completely terrible (just saw the opportunity for a meme). My main problem with it is that unlike intelliJ, the UI buttons don’t scale with the font size, making it pretty unusable on my HiDPI laptop.

For now I’ll just stick with IntelliJ/idea IDEs (I have access to an education license for ultimate) and then if/when Idea ruins it I’ll probably just try to integrate my Java workflow into either VS Code or an nvim setup

I’m sad my favorite gen is being skipped, I was really hoping for a legends Kyurem game that went into the idea of the original dragon. Legends Z-A still looks pretty interesting though.

Are there really only 300 people here? Surely that data is wrong?

Now I know what my next steam game is going to be, thanks for that

Not really sure how archinstall factors in since it wasn’t around yet when I first installed, but I love EndeavourOS. I’ve installed arch before, but I really can’t be bothered if I’m just going to end up installing all of the same packages the GUI could give me in less time anyway. Yeah, EndeavourOS is just arch with some small extra packages and a GUI installer, but that’s exactly why I like it.

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for about 1.5 years on my laptop and about a year on my desktop. I’ve been using it as arch but pre-configured. I believe EndeavourOS uses the same repositories as stock Arch, with an extra EndeavourOS repo added for theming and some convenience tools they use.

The UI might not be as easy as Manjaro (I don’t think they pre-install a GUI for pacman/yay, but it isn’t hard to install one like pamac). Other than that if you use a desktop like Gnome or KDE and install a pacman frontend you probably won’t need to interact with the terminal more than you want. Honestly I think EndeavourOS is a great place to start if you want to learn more about Linux without having to spend the time configuring your system from scratch.