Arch

Arch Linux installation complete. Plasma was beautiful, gleaming, with Wayland running like a magazine ad. It was just missing a terminal. And the file manager. And anything useful at all.

Surviving the first contact with Arch Linux A slight exaggeration on my part — I’ve had contact with Arch Linux before. Long before systemd, back when it used a logical and rational init system. Sometime last century, perhaps? I’d been away from it for a long time. But that’s beside the point. The point is, I need to be honest right from the start: I shouldn’t be writing this post. ...

Before the first boot, there was only the void… Or rather: there was an FX-6300 with 8 GB of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce GT-610 graphics card that can barely render a desktop, a 1 TB HDD eager to host AI models, and the stubbornness of someone who could never quite quit Linux for good. Old but running Linux. Suck on that, Windows 11. My name is Marcelo Souza (or just “The Stubborn One”), I’m a Designer by trade, an old-school nerd/geek, and this is teimosodolinux.github.io — a technical and existential logbook of my adventures (and misadventures) with Linux in 2026. ...