Home ----- "A place where one lives; a residence." - definition of home. For me, home is a place where I truly belong. Let's think about it for awhile: You can buy as many houses as you want but still there will be just one house that you can call home. That one house that full of memories and whatever happen you will always go back there whether you like it or not. But this is not a story about houses, or any other properties, this is a story about linux distro. How this one distro will always feel like home to me, maybe not to others but for me, this distro will always be my home and I will gladly come back to it whenever I face any problem that I can't fix on other distro. The story goes like this, I have two laptop; 1. Ideapad 330 (main laptop) 2. Thinkpad x240 (experimental laptop) Both laptop run linux, Ideapad run Mint and Thinkpad run Arch (btw!). There're both run smoothly and I really like using both my laptop. The Ideapad I use for my work (wordpress dev), web browsing, light gaming and basically all the things you do on your main device. While the Thinkpad I use for experiment, before this I use it to distro hop and now I stuck with Arch + i3 (stuck in a good way). So I'm getting bored with my mint setup (since I don't have any work to do this week), I plan to change the setup a little bit by installing new os. First I installed Fedora 35. The experience is quite good actually. My first official os is Ubuntu (like everybody does) and gnome almost make me feel like home. But after a few day it became slower and slower. Maybe due to the apps that I installed. Nevermind that, I still used it for two more days until I don't know why I felt boring with it lol. It's not Fedora problem but maybe it is not the os for me. It's 100percent my fault. Then, I installed Ubuntu Mate. Since it is my favourite Ubuntu distro. But same as fedora I still feel like something missing, I kept reading disrowatch for os suggestion. Then it all comes to me, why don't I just install Arch(btw!) ? At first I don't want to install Arch on my main laptop because I'm afraid that I can't make it work and waste my time to set it up just to break it. But after Fedora & Ubuntu Mate I think I'm being the most stupid living thing alive, why keep wasting my time trying other distros and got bored by it if I can just install Arch in the first place ? I take my thumbdrive and flash the latest Arch iso. Then I start the installation process. Tbh, all people that can read can install Arch by reading the wiki for manual. You can find all the things you need to install arch just by reading the manual. I installed it flawlessly and I check my thinkpad history for the list of apps that I need to install since I want to use i3, so it basically the same package. It's all went super flawlessly and I manage to set up the basic packages. i3 work super fast as always but of course I face some problem that I can fixed by reading the manual. The problem I faced was; 1. i3 status can't find my battery, but after googling for answer I managed to fixed it. 2. Loud fan noise/fan spinning to fast, also manage to fixed it by installing packages for laptop-mode. Actually I missed this on my thinkpad since I don't face this problem on my thinkpad, thanks God I face this problem so that I can install the same packages on my thinkpad. See, you learn new things everyday right ? I think that's it, that's the only problem I face. Ohh there's one more, the ram usage. I don't know why it take more ram while idle than thinkpad, both use the same wm and almost same packages but Ideapad seem to take more ram idle. Ideapad take like 800-900mb ram idle while Thinkpad only take 400-500mb. By opening firefox, Ideapad take 1.2Gb of ram while Thinkpad only 800-900mb of ram. Maybe due to amdgpu but arghh it make my eye bleed looking at the ram usage lol. But still I'm having so much fun using it, I don't know why I didn't do this early ? I rarely turn on my thinkpad this week because I spend so much time on my main laptop. I really love i3, it make my work flow so fast and easy. I use xampp mostly for my work since I have to create and design mockup website before I create it on my official work domain. So i3 really make it so much faster and smoother to change workspaces and all the up to date apps really make a (small) different. Unfortunately, yeah life will not always be good right ? There's always something bad happen, whether you can face it or not it depend on you. So after a few day of glorious arch life on my main laptop, xampp stop working and it's really killing me. There's suddenly a compatibility problem, xampp only compatible on 32bit ? And after two days of googling, I can't find the answer to fixed this problem. The manual said to comment the 32bit something lines in /opt/lampp/lampp, I've done that but still I can't fix it. It's really messed me up, I really need xampp to work since my work depend on it. I tried to setup lamp manually and it work, I can use phpmyadmin and all the tools I need for work but I'm not comfortable enough using it. I'm more comfortable using xampp. So this experiences; bored with mint -> installed fedore -> ubuntu mate -> arch(btw!) take a whole week. It's sunday(the time I write this) and I can't wasted any more time since I have to start working on monday, I really need xampp to be up and running before monday. So I decided to install Mint back. If you have installed mint before, you will know that it's so easy to set up mint. It will take only 10min of your time to get everything up and running. That's the thing I like about Mint, it easy to install, it rarely broken (never broken on me) and the feels, mint will always make me feel like home. It's like I just travel to a few places and come back home when I finish setting up Mint. So right now, my main laptop still use mint and I plan to use it for a long time. Thinkpad still use Arch, it run flawlessly and I use it everyday for journalling and update this website. To be honest, I really like Arch it just my work needs (xampp), don't let me stay with Arch. In conclusion, thanks Mint teams for creating a very good and stable distro which I like very much and make me feel like home everytime I use it. Thanks to Arch team for creating such an interesting distro that I can spend my free time tinkering, and using it bring so much fun in me. So this two distro will always be my home and my favourite distro, I know this sound absurd but you can imagine like this; 1. Linux Mint is like your first wife, your soulmate, the one that you always come back to when you have any problem and always treat you with care and make you feel like home. 2. Arch is like your second young wife (that don't exist in my case :p), the one that you experiment all the new things with and you spend most of your free time with but give you slight problems sometime lol. Thanks for reading, email me for any feedback:)