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  • over_and_out@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    Maybe your “could be fixed within minutes” is someone else’s “took hours to figure out how to fix when I was actually supposed to be working”?

    • De_Narm@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Nah, I usually find the solution on the arch website. If that doesn’t work, it’s in the forum - which is usually the first search result on all major search engines for any given pacman problem. Once you’ve found the solution it’s hardly more than just copy-pasting it.

    • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
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      5 months ago

      No it’s actually very simple stuff. Arch is surprisingly stable and easy to manage, and had been for the better part of a decade