I have tried to learn Linux for ages, and have experimented with installing Arch and Ubuntu. Usually something goes wrong when I try to set up a desktop environment after installing Arch in VirtualBox. KDE gave me a problem where I couldn’t log in after getting to the point where my username was displayed in a similar format to how it is for Windows. My end use case is to help keep my workflow more organized than haphazardly throwing files somewhere on my desktop or in a folder nested somewhere that I’ll just inevitably lose :(
Somehow after all this time, I feel like I actually understand less about my computer and what I need to understand regarding its facets. Is it an unrealistic goal to want to eventually run a computer with coreboot and a more cybersecurity heavy emphasis? I’m still a noob at this and any advice would be appreciated!
Try Crystal Linux, it’s based on Arch and it’s beautiful installer will do the heavy lifting for you and leave you with a fully working Arch Linux installation.
How’s the community for that?
I use Endeavor which is what I was going to suggest as an easy to install Arch based distro.
For anyone wanting to learn then going for something Arch based means you’ve got the Arch wiki to back you up.
It’s a vibrant community, they have a Discord server, whenever I need help with something, my issue is solved almost instantly. Plus, yes… the Arch Wiki which has no match. And the distro comes with a pacman and AUR helper that makes it stupid easy to work with.