Tried installing arch install in Mint

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IMHO weekly alone is too few. Personally, I run it monthly, weekly, and daily. Plus manually before any suspicious software installation.

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It probably depends on how much one does to and with the system? I mostly just run the regular system updates. It is a good idea to run it before installing new software. I will have to show more discipline than in my chess I guess, hehe.

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Yeah, I have unlimited Proton and do use the cloud. Maybe I should also get another USB stick, easily enough space for what I use it for.

Mainly some graphics, which most of it isn’t needed to keep forever. And some text composing and sheets. All not very large files.

I used to play videogames, but not much on pc nowadays… it was a reason for staying on Microsoft for quite a while. Emulation was quite headbreaking often and in the past much just wasn’t supported on ubuntu and sorts. Both has changed though.

Mainly I surf the Internet administrating my club. Thank you all for your help. I will try to contribute myself if I see things I am knowledgeable about. Mostly I just always was the one at home who got computers going again… though 25 years ago I did study Network management, so ICT, Mainly was Internet protocols and a bit of Pascal. Next to all the obvious. But d*mn that’s a quarter of a century back now… pfff

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I was surprised to find pacman package manager in Debian Trixie.
Wow!

laco@nagygep-cin-13:~$ apt search pacman
arch-install-scripts/stable,stable 28-1 all
  scripts aimed at automating some menial tasks

archlinux-keyring/stable,stable 0~20250430-1 all
  Arch Linux PGP keyring

hannah/stable 2.0.1+ds1-0.3 amd64
  pacman-like game, child oriented

hannah-data/stable,stable 2.0.1+ds1-0.3 all
  pacman-like game, child oriented - data files

libalpm-dev/stable 15.0.0-1+b1 amd64
  Arch Linux Package Management library (development files)

libalpm15/stable 15.0.0-1+b1 amd64
  Arch Linux Package Management library

librust-nomcup-dev/stable 0.1.0-1+b2 amd64
  Parse PKGBUILD files used by pacman the package manager - Rust source code

njam/stable 1.25-12 amd64
  pacman-like game with multiplayer support

njam-data/stable,stable 1.25-12 all
  pacman-like game with multiplayer support -- data files

pacman/stable,now 10-21 amd64 [telepítve]
  Chase Monsters in a Labyrinth

pacman-package-manager/stable 7.0.0-1+b1 amd64
  Simple library-based package manager

:star_struck:

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You can use NTFS with Linux, for data storing for example, as long as you have necessary software pieces installed. Such as ntfs-3g package on Debian (or derived) system.

However, you can’t install Linux system onto an NTFS filesystem, as it cannot provide the necessary permission attributes. For that you need a Linux-native filesystem, probably ext4, but could be btrfs, and others too.

Installs don’t have to be on Fat32, I saw them being in ISO9660 filesystem. Most of the installer images are above 4GB in size, so they won’t fit on Fat32 because of file size limit.
So for storing installer images you need filesystem which allows bigger files, probably exFat is a good choice (Ventoy uses it).

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I think it is there for developers who want to work on or build Arch packages on a Debian platform. Cross-distro development saves developers having to run multiple systems.

I personally dont see the great issue running multiple distros… I do it all the time.

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That makes much more sense, than install RPM’s onto Debian.

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