How the f does that even happen ._.

NGL, changing the computer instead of the power supply seems a bit expensive if that’s the problem

Well I think my video card just died… So do with that information what you will ig? ^^’

Edit: video card is fine, the screen controller seems to be the issue

Any time! Can’t say much about the robustness if the hardware though, as I tend to take stupidly good care of my machines.

Have a tuxedo machine with TuxedoOS at work. I needed an NVIDIA card for cuda so I had a few kinks to iron out (NVIDIA I stg…) but the tuxedo customer support was here with me through it all, treated me with respect at all times and forwarded all issues to NVIDIA immediately, and they got fixed soon after. Solid team, sleek machines, nice distro.

Absolutely this. Arch can be a first good distro, but only for a limited subset of new users with a very specific goal in mind. Anybody who says it’s any more stable than Debian or mint is either delusional, very lucky or disingenuous. I’ve never had to chroot into my system to roll back a bugged grub update on fedora, Debian or Ubuntu, but on Arch yes. And I’m saying that with love from EndeavourOS. I love my system to bits but I’m realist enough to acknowledge the reason why I am comfortable on it is that I have enough years of experience on Linux to not stress about what to do when something breaks.

Goodness gracious ._.

Hopefully i can grab some time to take both for a spin soon!

4 mins? Is that an hyperbole? Oo

Wow, thank you so much for the very thorough answer! I’ve been interested in both and having the point of view of someone who has experienced both is extremely useful. I appreciate it a lot.

This may not be the place but would you mind sharing how they compare in your opinion ?

Im on EndeavourOS like a lot of other folks here, which is basically Arch with an awesome installer, a handful of convenient extra tools, a sensible default confuguration and a fancy theme. It’s been awesome so far, hell I’ve just been able to install and run an EA game from steam with minimal fuss yesterday, just the help of lutris to install EA Origin to authenticate. Shit just works.

That being said, Arch can occasionally blow up at your face for no fault of your own and it’s a very different environment from fedora (love fedora btw), so there’s a bit of a learning curve that you’re gonna have to accept to climb if you want to maintain your system.

Wait did you really take the retina thing literally ???

Maybe you’ve been using themes with too much contrast ? I mean, I can’t work on a light theme for any extended period of time, but most dark themes are too stark and eye searing for me, so that may be your case too?

Mine sure aren’t with light mode, even in brightly lit office environment. Different people have different eyes, and needs. What may be an unnecessary gimmick for you may very well be vital to the next person’s livelihood.

Until it doesn’t lol

I’m well aware. I was being facetious.

I was among one of the grub fiasco victims. Thank goodness they rolled it back pretty fast and I knew how to chroot.

That’s anecdotal evidence but good for you!

and it broke all my theeeeeeeeeeeeeeemes! \o/