I start this log today. But the actual story begins a few days ago.
The story so far:
Roundabout the 14th of April we went out for Easter holidays. I took the laptop with me with the aim of spending some resting days installing Linux and have a not-windows dependant machine where I could produce music.
This peaked my interest for Arch, but it was too soon for me, I have been distro-hopping for a few days (taking away time from my jazz-guitar learning, which I don’t regret).
Back to Madrid I get serious and follow a few tutorials in my attempt to really own my machine and my distro. This means Arch.
I struggled because most of the tutorials relied on UEFI boot, not BIOS.
Roundabout the 26th of April I stuble upon this tutorial that should, by the way, be nominated to the most useful thing in the whole internet: https://youtu.be/5DHz23VQJxk?si=Jo_6m8hqGe6aLuFG
It took me two days to go through the difficult part of fighting a busy family life (more difficult than Arch itself), afther those I resume my Arch installation and I finally get a minimal but working installation in the laptop. I could say at this moment that I use Arch. But that’s not really true. I could fire it up, but it had no real usage. Still some work to put in here.
On 2025-04-30 I install a GUI. I still struggle a bit with not even having a terminal application, but it doesn’t take me long. At this point I think I am done, but I don’t claim it. I save it for the next day, when still a last bump in the way is waiting for me.