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As An Arch User, I find this incredibly True.
It blocks your updates when there's Arch newsfeed updates that you haven't read, prints it to terminal and then you just need to mark the latest news as read for your updates to go through. It's rare enough that it's not a bother, while this news can contain crucial information about what needs manual intervention and how. https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant
- What are cool things in Arch that aren’t that popular.
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Considering Arch for future use but have one concern
You can install Informant
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Getting 'error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))' during update
Not sure about any EndeavourOS specific solution, but informant as a pacman hook gets you all the unread Arch news items before upgrading.
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Does anyone have experience/thoughts on going from Debian to Arch for my daily driver?
Before an update, I check if something has been released at https://archlinux.org/news/ that affects my own installation. If so, this has to be taken into account. For automatic checking there are tools like informant (https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant).
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Is Arch a good distro if you don't want to do due diligence on updates?
informant is very useful to me. It shows you any news articles from the site that you haven't read, before updating. This is how I make sure I don't miss any news updates.
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Is there anything like Gentoos "news" function in portage, that notifies you directly of any manual changes that you might need to make to your system in an update?
Informant (from the AUR) gives you a few commands to check the arch news and includes a pacman hook that blocks transactions if there are unread news.
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Arch & Manjaro. Is it a bad idea to have a systemd timer automatically update the system every day when I will be away for like a week?
Don't automate updates, bad idea. Use a hook like https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant You will be fine not updating for a month.
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If I don't update my system for a while do I need to just update the keyring?
I highly recommend Informant. It's basically a hook into pacman that checks Arch news before installing anything, and if there is a new message you are forced to read it before you can proceed.
- Simple script to always check up arch news before updating system
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Arch Linux now has an official installer
Link to GitHub repo which has more info about the installer: https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall
- Arch Linux - News: Installation medium with installer
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EndeavorOS vs Manjaro vs ArcoLinux
Archinstall (https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall) has been present in the official Arch package sources for some time. This should shorten the installation time. Just as a hint. :-)
- Arch linux is the best distro, and its community is one of the nicest communities
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Which is the most popular Linux distro amongst developers?
$ pacman -Si archinstall | awk '{print " "$0}' Repository : extra Name : archinstall Version : 2.1.1-1 Description : Just another guided/automated Arch Linux installer with a twist Architecture : any URL : https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : python-archinstall Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 10.98 KiB Installed Size : 8.10 KiB Packager : Giancarlo Razzolini Build Date : Thu 28 Jan 2021 02:50:19 AM PST Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature
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Antergos be Damnd... now where?
However, the installation of vanilla Arch is basically not difficult either. And for some time now, archinstall has been included in the official package sources, which can simplify the installation.
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Quick questions about arch
That's for you to decide. Basically, the installation of Arch consists to a large extent only of executing the commands mentioned in the official instructions. In addition, Archinstall (https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall) has recently been added to the official package sources which makes installation simpler.
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Haha ha
Seems like it is designed to do both equally well. Has a guided installer and functions as a python library for installing arch and whatnot programmatically. https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall
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Archinstall is now available in the official package sources of Arch Linux
Crap. Seems like I linked to the wrong repository. Correct is probably https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall.
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Archinstall is now a offical package
Just to inform, a fix has been merged: PR #84: reworked kde.py to use sddm instead of hacking xinitrc and will be in v2.1.1 this weekend :) Thanks for reporting and pointing this out!
What are some alternatives?
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paru - Feature packed AUR helper
Androidx86-Installer-Linux - Advanced Android x86 Installer for Linux
Stream-Framework - Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:
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prep4ud - Speed up Arch Linux system updates via pre-downloading packages
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