Distro hoping is fine. But there is a certain feeling you get when you can fix your own problems by reading the arch wiki
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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I love fixing arch by reading the arch wiki, or fixing ubuntu by reading the arch wiki
I set up my login manager for fedora and my grub for fedora using the arch wiki....
I tried to find a solution for my failing marriage in the arch wiki. The arch wiki instructed me that the problem was consulting the arch wiki. Thanks for saving my marriage, arch wiki!
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How to enter arch wiki if no internet
Well, shit. Got 2 tebibytes to transfer, guess Iβd better start now, hey?
Good thing transferring 2 tebibytes is no slower than 2 kibibytes
Just attach two of these bad boys
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On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.
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Phone or use an offline copy
Going to save this link just in case the Internet goes down one day.
I saved the comment so I can download the wiki if I ever lose internet.
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Another option that's available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.
I have a few other .zim's from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There's a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.
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Distro hoping is fine.
Yeah. I hope my distro keeps working as smooth as always. I really hope.
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Me: Oh and Mint, could you also add my old printer that I can't get to work on any other OS I've tried?
Mint: Sure thing.
Ha. On Windows I had this ancient Ethernet Canon IP printer. Windows hated it, even with the supplied Canon drivers and network Utility. It always needed messing with every time to get it to show up as a printer on the network.
When I moved to OpenSUSE I went into YAST2 printer discovery. It found the printer right away, and suggested a model, and asked if I wanted to install the GutenPrint driver for it. Yes please. And do you want to announce this printer to others on your network (via CUPS) Yes. Done. Worked 100% with no Canon utilities.
me: hey mint, suspend automatically.
mint: no.
me: suspend manually then.
mint: no.
me: shutdown
mint: no.
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My experience has been the opposite. I built a new PC last year, and only Fedora and Arch recognized the Radeon GPU and the Intel Wi-Fi. Mint was shipping a kernel that was too old to recognize either one.
Agreed. Out of all the distributions I have tried, Fedora (and its various spins and derivatives) are what tend to have everything actually work out of the box.
My first distro has been Nobara after swapping off windows.
It really is dummy proof.
For those on the edge. Just do it. Windows 11 is free to go back to. You risk nothing by giving Linux a try.
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Me: Btw how old are your packages?
Mint: Its rude to ask the age of a distro
Me: well are the maintained properly?
Mint: uhhhh.... Some of them are
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I tried basically every distro on my laptop and fedora worked all hardware 100% out of the box + printer + fingerprint reader + all day battery life
Fedora gnome is so good it makes Linux boring
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If I put my Mint computer to sleep, the wifi adapter stops working completely. π€‘
First thing to do on most linux distros, but especially mint, is turn off everything sleep-related forever.
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Usual suspect, the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card. Milk spoils? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Card! Freshly divorced? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card!
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This was my exact experience with Manjaro.
I used to had linux mint in an old computer and for some reason the wifi didn't work. I asked a couple of times how to fix it but was ignored everytime. I didn't care because I used it connected it with the network cable, but my wife was really frustrated because she can't take it around the house to listen to music and so. After a while of me telling her that I would fix it, she got really mad and told me that if in 2 weeks the wifi of that wasn't working she would pay a technician to install windows on it. So I came back, not asking for a fix for the wifi bit for other distro easy to use like Mint and talked about the reason why I was leaving mint. And now, of course, people was willing to help me fix the wifi and even wrote me a script to execute on start to fix it.
When I first started using Linux, I was told that if I had a problem, I shouldn't give a well-reasoned, well-documented description of what's wrong and what steps I've tried, because everyone will ignore it. Instead, I was told to say that Linux sucks because I'm having this problem and I'd get 3.8 million angry fixes within 10 minutes.
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Been using Fedora on several laptops and desktops, and haven't had issues with wifi. Or with anything else for that matter. For me, everything in Fedora just works and never breaks.
The first bug I've seen was recently. Apparently an update broke the 'shutdown and update' function in Fedora Workstation. So now when you press it, nothing happens. Then when you try shutting down, the PC will shut down without updating. It'll update and shutdown upon next boot. Can confirm Fedora KDE is unaffected though.
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