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NEIt began innocently enough five years back, during the pandemic. I just wanted to try Arch Linux for fun. Next thing I knew, I was three distros deep, spending nights reading Arch Wiki like it’s holy scripture, and tweaking dotfiles I barely could understand. Then came the real struggle kernel updates that decided my drivers were optional, audio that didn't worked and i was like where's my Wi-Fi. I spent hours editing config files, convinced i was optimizing things, only to discover I just locked myself out of my own desktop environment.
I learned the hard way that half of Arch is installing the OS, and the other half is fixing the thing you accidentally created while customizing. Ssomewhere between experimenting with a new window manager and trying to save two seconds off boot time, I broke the system so badly it wouldn’t even boot into a TTY. And of course, instead of restoring a backup like a person, I reinstalled Arch from scratch because apparently that’s part of the ritual knowing i had no any other options. It was super frustrating, but honestly, I learned a lot and kinda enjoyed the thing. I don’t really feel like using it anymore for general use.
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