Hi from my new Arch install!
It turns out, Arch isn't that hard to install, once you remember to fuckin' reformat your drive as GPT rather than accidentally installing on the extant MBR! Encrypted and everything!
I've even got sound!
I know, I know. "Kat, what are you doing back on Arch? I thought you liked FreeBSD?" I do. I really do. But FreeBSD is difficult, and I need a working UNIX-like system here shortly to be able to write LaTeX files. I could try to get FreeBSD working again, but I don't have that sort of time. So, I'll go with what I know well: Arch. Sure, I have to deal with all of the GNU Project's shit, but I kinda had to on FreeBSD anyways, so what was really lost?
And when I say "FreeBSD is difficult" I mean, I've had this Arch system for less than two hours and I've already got sound, video, easily mountable removable media, etc, etc. It took me two hours alone just to get to a graphical environment with FreeBSD, lots more time to get sound then to get sound to stop being so crackly, and I never got removable media up and running. So, much like when I used to use Windows as a problem-free break from Linux, I'm now doing the same with Arch and FreeBSD
Heh. Arch as a "problem-free break". Leave it to me to use one of the hardest Linux distros as an easy break from FreeBSD. I mean, what would others use? Fedora? Manjaro? Meanwhile, here I am, still setting everything up from scratch and trying to get back to a working system.
Oh, Kat. Kat, Kat, Kat. Whatever will we do with you?