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> Almost always, it's been surprisingly straightforward to un-screw the few screw-ups I've made. That's been my experience as well. With Arch, everything is ex

> Almost always, it's been surprisingly straightforward to un-screw the few screw-ups I've made. That's been my experience as well. With Arch, everything is exposed. There are usually no wrappers or layers of abstraction or weird modifications added to the upstream components it ships. That makes problems so much more straightforward to troubleshoot and fix.

rocqua 4y ago
I yearn for my arch days where 'ls /etc' only yielded things I knew about. These days I am stuck with WSL, and that sadly does not work with Arch. As far as I can tell the Arch community does not want to support WSL because of philosophical disagreement.
- lillecarl 4y ago
  WSL2 should have no problems running arch at all. https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL https://github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL
  - rocqua 4y ago
    That is not the kind of packaging that inspires confidence. And the effort it takes to verify it isn't backdoored is too much. Definitely, my IT department is not going to appreciate me installing this. In this case, I actually think our IT department would be right.
andrewstuart2 4y ago
Exactly. And having gone through the install process to the point of a usable desktop, I learned a ton about what I'd need later to fix the issues myself, quickly. And then when everything just worked, much better than Ubuntu, I installed Arch on a few other machines and got even more practice. The learning curve may have been steep but it definitely paid off in my understanding of how to maintain and fix issues going forward. And just my understanding of Linux overall.