My #GNU #Linux Journey – Part 1: Discovering the Arch Way
When I first installed #ArchLinux, I quickly realized it wasn’t like other systems. Nothing came preinstalled. No GUI installer. No sudo. No editor. Just a prompt. And that was the best thing that could’ve happened.
Here’s what I actually learned:
That a Linux “installation” is often just a well-organized file extraction. No registry. No black box like in #Windows.
That #pacman is a powerful tool and #sudo doesn’t work until you configure it. I had to add my user to the #wheel group and use #visudo, a special editor to safely modify sudoers.
That my user password, not root’s, is used for sudo – which felt secure and efficient once I understood the logic.
I didn’t just get a system running – I learned what a system is.