I’m starting to recover from war-induced apathy, and I got my feet wet with Arch Linux. The actual experience wasn’t that different from what I expected from Arch: the whole setup process was done from the command line and the documentation was top-notch. I learned a ton of new low-level things while I was playing with the different configurations, and I’m planning to use Arch as a daily driver on my Dell XPS 13 9380. Everything works like a charm so far, although pacman is quite an odd piece of software, and I’ll need some time to learn its quirks.