hello everyone 🖐️ spent a full day installing arch and later tweaking some stuff and experimenting with the desktop environments as I did not know arch had those lol some challenges I faced during the installation process - initial boot mode: correctly identified the system as bios/legacy mode, which required the subsequent use of a dedicated bios boot partition on the gpt-labeled disk. - encountered the "can't lookup blockdev" error when formatting, which was resolved by issuing a partprobe /dev/sdb command to refresh the kernel's view of the disk. - faced the persistent "device or resource busy" error on the swap partition, successfully resolved by forcing deactivation with swapoff /dev/sdb2 before initializing and enabling it. - completed the installation but inadvertently booted back into the live usb, a minor hiccup immediately corrected by removing the medium and rebooting. - initially picked gnome because the aesthetic, seen in mr. robot, offered the feeling of a "hacker" environment, appealing to the desire for a minimalist, focused workflow. - subsequently switched from gnome to other options, as the need for greater customization and flexibility grew. - picked KDE plasma as my current environment, did some digging and seems rather okaish for my current specs BTW I do not know if Skool allows thread creation so I am going to post my journey below via links to previous posts: - Installing Arch 👾 (Day 1) Feel free to jump in with thoughts of your own. Is KDE plasma okay for an old PC as we will slowly but surely moving towards the DevOps complexities? Thank you!

hey everyone 👋 today i'm planning to install arch linux manually for the first time. pulled out my old tower PC out of the closet and wiped Windows 10. CPU: Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 (~2.8 GHz) RAM: 4 GB 😬 (The first bottleneck is always fun!) Storage: 250 GB SSD + 500 GB HDD Old OS: Windows 10 Pro i'm doing it partly to understand linux at a deeper level and partly because i've heard it's a rite of passage 😅 planning to pick GNOME, please let me know if this one is okay. I might document this in some sort of thread and post my evolution. any tips, or things you wish you'd known before your first manual arch install?

Hey everyone, I'm not sure if anyone has heard of this website (labex.io) before, but I just started using it for about hour today to learn. You can learn Linux, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and many more with Hands-on Labs Develop skills in Linux, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Programming, Data Science, and more through interactive labs and real-world projects. It's pretty much all hands-on activities and even has plenty of learning paths and projects that you can build (free). This is also kid friendly too.

I never used obsidian. But when i heard it from Mischa, I gave it a try. Its mindblowing. It really helps to map all the understanding. And I regret, why didn't I use it earlier! If you can organize it correctly, quick revision for anything you learnt, is easier than ever. 🍀 [By the way, I am planning to transfer all my leetcode solutions strategy in obsidian for quick revision]

hello! I am new here 👋 and a beginner, just getting my feet wet with Linux commands, but I’m ready to start building a real home lab. I am a content creator and a writer and I was actually trying to understand how can a homelab help me with my content? What’s this actually supposed to _do_, and how can I make it useful for my content work? A few ideas I’ve been toying with: - pull my own YouTube/Twitter/X/Newsletter stats into Grafana or a custom dashboard - host a staging site for scripts, newsletter templates, or interactive content before going live - self-host a bot that scrapes curated content and drafts newsletter entries automatically Curious if these actually make sense as homelab projects, or if I’m missing the point entirely.