Update Journey To Arch Linux

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 ## Intro
 Arch Linux is a great distribution. There is zero doubt about that. The syntax of the package manager, the choice by default, and among other things the wiki.  But how did I even get to using arch Linux? Well- it was a long history, and that history is super long and complicated. 
 
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 ####  Second time around
 But I wasn't done yet, I found a channel called [Mental Outlaw]() and said hey that looks cool. Then I  saw [grapejuice](#grapejuice), and I was amazed. Exactly what I had been wanting. What what kept me from using at that time. I installed Manjaro onto my main Machine again. This time I tried out Roblox, my mind was blown, it fully works with performance being okish,  but most importantly: **IT WORKEDDD**. I could now launch Roblox and play it fully under Wine on Linux. It was honestly amazing to me, roblox had been broken for at least 6 years. As long as I had played Roblox it'd been broken. Manjaro now was my daily driver.
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+I had heard of a channel called [Mental Outlaw](link here) and I saw a video by chance on how to install Arch Linux. Just by this rabbit hole I found some of my favorite Linux content creators, including but not limited to: [Distro Tube](), [Brodie Robertson](), and [Mental Outlaw]().  I was now invested into this.
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+#### Testing Arch Linux
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+Well, I made a commitment when Windows 11 first was announced i made a commitment to switch entirely to Linux, for that see [here](#windows11). For that i did succeed with, I entirely cut it out. I again now knowing about Arch Linux, wanted it. I installed Manjaro on my main machine, I said to myself as a temporary condition, until I can install Arch Linux. 
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+That was to be soon, but I had another machine that had been collecting dust for about half a decade, as my Ubuntu  endeavors had ended not great. It was time 
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+#### I virtualized a arch Linux install
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+Well- I knew Virtualbox was a thing... Because I knew that an Archlinux install would be long and honestly arch install guide.... You kind of suck with all the redirects. But I installed In a VM. I was now going to try to deploy on hardware... Turns out I had a piece of hardware no one cared about... A relic of my [original endeavours](#orginal)
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+#### I installed Arch on my other computer
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+I realized I had a relic of my previous experience, an old PC that everyone thought was dead anyhow, I remembered it, I hooked it up to a old VGA monitor, and got a USB stick, and stuck it in there (dang, i could've had the chance to plop in a CD and burn archlinux ISO on it).  Then got into the Archlinux screen. Installed it- I literally had to pull up a video on a phone to do this also (Like this was not an optimal way to install Arch)
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+It took a bit to configure an Xorg environment, at the time startx was still kind of the "standard", so i used that with DWM. I configured everything how i wanted it to be. It was amazing...
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+####  Manjaro (Again)
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+By some point- I had installed Manjaro on my main PC- while I was messing with Arch Linux on the other computer. To try to do single GPU passthrough, but that hadn't gone very well. But since Windows 11 released, I made a commitment that I had to keep.
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+#### I tried Arch on my main computer
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+After loads of tinkering on my alternate machine- i determined i was ready to install Arch Linux on my main machine: Remeber at this point there wasn't any "Archinstall" script bundled with arch. I followed [Mental Outlaws](https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8) Video. I had gotten it installed. I was ready to install DWM- but one major roadblock layed there.
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+### **NVIDIA DRIVERS** 
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+**Yep- the one and only killer of dreams**. I had known from using Manjaro that NVIDIA is kinda broken... but i didn't expect what was to come. I eventually fully read through NVIDIAS Xorg Documentation. To fix this i had ran:
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+nvidia-xconfig --prime
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+Remember: I am on a laptop. So NVIDIA Prime is kind of not fully working, it is much better now than what it was right before. Specifically because `nvidia-xconfig` is now known to me. 
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+After I got through that- It was basically free-sailing.
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+Lots of terminal and compiling due to DWM. But it was entirely worth it to bring the knowledge that I got from it. 
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+##  How this has changed me 
+Arch Linux really brought me to love Linux, and to really start messing with it. It really brought me to the user I am today. This brought me to learn how a system works. To learn how to even script. 
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+## Issues I've encountered
+All of these issues haven't been specifically with Arch Linux. Each of these issues originated from some way either externally from a bug, or with me doing something wrong.  
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