A bit about my journey (Arch Linux)

For most of my life with computers, I have used Linux. Windows was great but I decided to use Ubuntu. I tried out all sorts of Linux distros (ie. Elementary OS, Linux Mint, etc) but none of them seemed right for me. After doing some searching around and I came to the conclusion that I had to attempt to use a minimal Linux distro that is Arch Linux.

About My Computer and What I do on it

Hardware: The PC I mainly use is a laptop that I got a few years back with a
Intel Core i3 3rd Gen, and 10 GB of RAM.

Usage: On my computer, I mainly write code using a text editor (i.e. vim or
somethings for quick use nano) and browse the web.

The Installation

Getting Arch Linux up and running on your computer really isn’t that bad.
Arch has great documentation and the beginner’s
guide makes everything
very straightforward. It took me around an hour to get a stable desktop
environment (it’s very easy installation) once I got all the basic stuff
taken care of I was finally able to begin making the operating system I
really wanted.

So Why use Arch?

I prefer Arch over other Linux distros or any operating system for that
matter:

• All I needs is a terminal with some GUI applications
• The best performance
• I choose what’s installed
• Fully customizable (almost)
• Always the latest software
• Installing software is easy with pacman
• Very intelligent community
• Teaches you about how Linux works

Conclusion

I really do see myself sticking with Arch for quite some time. With its
rolling releases there will be no need to ever have to install any major
updates and I have everything I really need on a computer.

PS: Gentoo Linux also better but I don’t have the time to configure and compile it.

What’s on my PC

Here’s a shortlist of things I have installed on my main Arch Linux
computer.

• dwm with custom configurations
• st or alacritty
• tmux
• vim but Now I’m using nvim with my configs
• oh my zsh
• firefox
• mpv

Originally published at https://mrinjamul.is-a.dev/blog