Xanaus
Hey guys, I am a complete noob, with little to no exposure to programming. Started my Linux journey 10 months ago, my first distro was an Ubuntu based one: POP!OS that made me fall in love, gnome was nice a new kind of DE but after using it for two months or so I just didn't like gnome that much, so installed KDE. Which was actually cool, and it was something I could use, unlike gnome being just cool and taking up a lot of my display. Then I was told by a few Redditors to try WM, and so I installed awesome WM, but that didn't work as POP!OS didn't allow it. Then someone on the POP!OS Reddit page said they are able to run i3, so I gave it a run and I liked the WM idea and I started to use i3 for my studies and KDE for normal use.
But the fact that I am not free to choose the WM of my choice, irked me. So went out for a distro hunt, and I decided to try a rolling release, but I knew I wasn't ready for arch, so like most people I choose MANJARO; got the minimal KDE ISO and installed it and then installed openbox and awesome wm and since then never looked back. Then I came across a meme/ Reddit post on systemd being the devil or something like that. As usual, I went to invidious and searched systemd and the first video on the list was the talk by Mr.Benno Rice (I believe), after watching the video I was intrigued by the idea of running a systemd free system, so I went again on the hunt for an init system which I feel like could give systemd a good run for their money: but Mr.Benno had already convinced me the s6 will be the one. So after watching a few videos and I decided to install artix. It was then I came across suite66, not realizing that s6 and suite66 being different I got the KDE ISO installed it on my daily driver. The one thing which I really loved was the tree concept.
After running for a day or two, I decide to stick with 66, even tough most of the people on the artix telegram chat said otherwise. But latter I realized that artix was not completely systemd free like I thought it was, hence I decided to switch to OBARUN. Used the JWM ISO, but installed KDE again. But I wanted to try setting up a proper BTRFS for snapper. So booted into the arch-iso, tried to follow the OBARUN wiki, but was having trouble doing it. But the people at the official XMPP chat of OBARUN, helped me a lot, especially: OBARUN, YANN-KAELING, SHIRONEKO, YIANIRIS, MOBINMOB
For now, I have an encrypted my drives, and currently using Qtile as my main WM, with connmand as new fav; I still have to setup my lightdm, pipewire, theme my qtile and other application.
So THANK YOU!!!! All for such a wonderful support.
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Hello Xanaus
It's up to me to thank you for the time you took for the research. All these steps that you have accomplished I could summarize them in a few words, "discovery or ignorance".
Thx and welcome
techore
Hi Xanaus!
You have had quite an adventure. I admire you for defining your requirements, exploring the various Linux distributions and DEs, and learning the install nuances to achieve your goal. Well done! I, also, had a similar adventure that lead me to Obarun.
:) Good to have you here with us.
4L1V3
Only 10 months from first migration to the best OS on the planet (Obarun) ?
I'm super jealous. Like most of us, I had to trawl through more than a decade of *buntu, Manjaro and all the rest!
