I finally moved to Arch — here’s my experience

A few days ago I posted here asking about how often Arch updates break systems, because I was testing Arch in a VM and thinking about moving from Fedora. I finally did it.

My experience so far:

1. I used the Arch installer and everything went smoothly. 2. Getting the NVIDIA driver working with Secure Boot took some troubleshooting, but I managed to get everything working. AI helped me a lot with this part. i can not reach to best way from archwiki 3. I found many applications directly in the Arch repositories/AUR, so I didn't need to rely on Flatpak or AppImage for some things. For example, I installed Joplin directly instead of using another package format. 4. I installed only the services and applications I actually need, instead of having a lot of things installed that I don't use.

I've only been using it as my main system for a short time, so I'm not going to say Arch is perfect yet. But so far, I'm happy I made the move.

Now I guess the real test starts when the updates arrive 😄