People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?
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Installing Arch appears to be more complex than Mint's Click Yes x4 GUI. Should I expect almost everything to just work after install?
Not even close, if you actually install barebones arch, then barebones arch is exactly that, barebones. You wont even have a DE.
Endeavour is what you want. It's just straight up arch, but with all the stuff you'd want to set up anyway done for you.
And if you want an "app-store" style app to browse packages with, and not fiddle with the command line to manage packages, install pamac. It can be expanded with AUR and flatpak support.
If I knew what parts I most wanted then maybe I could do bare arch but I guess Endeaver is the way to ho.
Well, Endeavour is just arch. If you want, you can achieve the same install that has only the things you need, by removing things instead of just adding.
IMO it starts off closer to the config most people want, so it's less work to take it the rest of the way.
What should I use to install a program on Endeavour? Yay? Aur?
Pacman is the actual system package manager.
Yay is an AUR helper, a program that automates all the steps of installing something from the AUR.
The AUR or Arch User Repository is a way for individuals in the community to easily distribute software, or create software installers, without going though the work of getting something into the official repos.
Here's the first thing I do on a new system, yay -S pamac. This will install pamac, a GUI for browsing, installing and uninstalling packages. (Both normal repos and AUR)
Generally, packages from the AUR get compiled by your system and then installed. This can be really slow, hence there is often a "-bin" version of packages that installs a pre-compiled binary.
You can also find "-git" versions of packages, these install the very latest version directly from the development repo.