Well,so there’s a few guides up for starting out with Manjaro specifically – for the next span of time that’s what we’re focusing on here, then stretching out to getting that install properly locked down, all that sort of elements to start considering with any OS, really.

Aim, of course, is that the guides end up being useful for anyone that comes across them. Given, there’s some overlap, as one would expect – and need. As I mentioned earlier, the only way to start is to start.

Take a look, and let me know what you think:

Manjaro Hardware Compatibility: Finding the Right Components
Downloading & Verifying Manjaro Linux ISO: A Step-by-Step Install Tutorial
Setting up a Dual Boot Manjaro Linux alongside Windows or macOS

It’s a start, and in going through and building up these articles I ended up learning quite a bit – much of it was refreshers on applied topics that I’m already familiar with.

Though our next will focus on GRUB with a bit more detail to aid in understanding for what we were messing around with in Dual Booting. Now, I know, that dual booting is kinda old hat with VMs & excellent compatibility layers like Wine and the like – but there are some edge cases where it might still be handy.

One of those examples we’ll get to down the line in my misadventures with my Oculus Rift S – of which I have yet to fully pull it off yet (need to do quite a bit more research into it, but at least SteamVR is kinda recognizing the headset, sorta pushing the line… but I digress) – though, at this stage I refuse the dual-boot or even touching the aforementioned OS lest I absolutely 110% have to for a work environment – and, even then, it’s begrudgingly. Yeah, I’m cutting off some of my resource options, yeah I’m being a bit petty – cutting my nose to spite my face, or however that phrase goes – but I’m really tired of being pulled by that nose to whatever ends that those organizations want.

Yes, I realize the irony of me saying that considering the various systems which underlay all that which I’m using presently – but a start is a start, even if it’s using distasteful infrastructure to make it happen. It takes time to ween off of the comfortable and familiar – even if such is a known destructive entity. Especially after habits built over a significant period of time must be overcome. This is not the world we were raised for – regardless of our age, because there’s not way it could have been otherwise at this point.

The Singularity is upon us, regardless if we want to admit or recognize it or not.

My best guess, it was in full swing by the 2010s – but, really, turn of the millennium. That cutover really shook things about in so many ways. Exponential growth is like that, though, it may start small – but it really catches up quickly. Thing is, that even as ‘late game’ as this is – we can still direct it where it doesn’t end up biting our collective hindsides. This isn’t through some centralized process.

Repositories of knowledge, yes for sure – but not some big corp or big government or big anything will save us. No, it is – always has been – and always will be on the individual to not just follow the rule and hope it goes well, but to make up their own. Explore, get messy, and all that such if you’ll pardon me dating myself a bit.

Laucivol – wolflinux.com

Filed under: Blog Post - @ 2023-05-09 13:28