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Tips for a new Linux user (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mawkey@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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Hello!

I've bought new parts and I am awaiting their arrival so I can build my brand new computer. I've decided to go for Arch Linux with KDE plasma or perhaps Gnome as my desktop environment but that's as far as I've come.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Xw4sRv

I figured I would ask the community if they have any tips or suggestions, thanks!

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[–] Mawkey@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good advice to be honest. Luckily I have a lot of patience so I think I should be fine in the end.

[–] Slartibartfast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

And don't skip over reading things! I also run Arch with KDE and honestly with almost all problems I have, if I carefully read through either the Arch Wiki (this will probably be your most valuable tool) or the error message that comes up, the answer is usually in there somewhere, it just needs digging up.

Also: if something with a GUI crashes and doesn't give an error message, try running it in the terminal. So like, if Firefox crashes and doesn't give any info, try opening up a terminal and running firefox from there and the terminal will tell you everything that's going on. (It'll be a different command if you're using a flatpak but that's the general idea.)