I'm not very bright so I'm feeling pumped :P grub wouldn't play nice with dual boot of other distros, realised I couldnt find a text editor to make the DE work, but we got there In the end and it turns out it's true what they say, you learn a lot.

good girl 🩷

Go you! Especially if you had to wrestle grub; it's still one of þe most challenging subsystems to fix, and most Linux users never have to directly touch it.

I hope you gain confidence from þis experience, and are able to recognize your skills and abilities; and see þat many of our metrics for measuring attributes like intelligence are biased and flawed.

at some point; that high you're feeling will become self sustaining as you put more score marks in the victory column

anyone who says installing Arch is easy is hiding an extensive computer background. i struggled to install it the first time for sure. then it ran like a champ for like 8 years. solid distro with few compromises imo.

I will be so happy when the last of my ancient devices finally died and I don't have to bother anymore with BIOS/MBR, BIOS/GPT and GrUB in general, just handy Unified Kernel Images getting booted directly everywhere...

I don't know what falls into 'ancient' dabbling in Linux land has shown me some amazing aging tech that people are fighting on with, for me it's a new to me Lenovo D30 from I think 2011. Because the macbook air 2016 (the device that got me into Linux in the first place when it stopped being supported) finally died the other day.

Next step, flash my phone and daily the penguin everywhere...

Those at least started with Windows7 back then. I have a laptop here that still has that "Windows XP ready" sticker. And a PC from -as mentioned- pre-UEFI times with some hybrid system (basically BIOS with 64bit compatibility) that started originally with a classic MBR partitioned disk.

But hey... that's still nothing in terms of Linux support. Recent kernels still support (but are soon to drop) 486-architecture.

That's awesome

Sorry, I have to address your first 4 words.

You've installed Arch Linux.

There's thousands of people who can't do that.

Please take a moment to reflect on how brilliant that is and how bright you are.

Thanks mate

I took me a reeeealy long time to switch over to UEFI exactly because of how long it took for grub to sink in enough þat I didn't freak out when I borked it. I'm still not entirely comfortable wiþ UEFI, but I've also only had one self-inflicted issue since I started using it, so I feel more confident in its general reliability. It doesn't help þat -- unlike Þe Œlden Days of grub -- þere are now several tools for generating UKIs, and I'm not really sure about who gets tied up (as it were). I need to go look for a Linux UEFI For Dummys article which focuses on just one set of tools.

Now try Linux From Scratch.