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zealous tusk
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essentially i need to do that as I want to edit neofetch. but the issue is i don't have the software i guess to open up the file? which software should i download to properly be able to open up said file and edit it.
right now it's a log and only opening in libreoffice.

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hot zenith
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hoh boy

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first off, your .bashrc is a plain text file. That's a different thing from a word processing document. LibreOffice Writer is analogous to MS Word, it's made for word-processing documents, not plain text. To open plain text files, you need a plain text editor. Kate, Notepadqq, GEdit, or Nano are all plain text editors.

zealous tusk
lone thicket
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if you want a KDE one, get kate

hot zenith
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you probably already have kate

zealous tusk
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im new to this

hot zenith
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it comes with KDE if you installed the full KDE

zealous tusk
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how do i check

lone thicket
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download it with pacman

zealous tusk
lone thicket
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use that if you want then

hot zenith
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I'm going to assume they're not on arch proper beause they said "general support"

zealous tusk
lone thicket
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arch 2

zealous tusk
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kk i got kate now

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so i just open bash with kate then?

lone thicket
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yeah

hot zenith
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secondly, neofetch is not configured in your .bashrc. If you want to open neofetch's config, it's at ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf

zealous tusk
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oh wait

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i thought thats all i needed for it to run on startup?

hot zenith
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oh that's what you're asking for

zealous tusk
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yeah that's all

hot zenith
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I thought you wanted to configure neofetch

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not autostart

lone thicket
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editing .bashrc is enough then

zealous tusk
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wait but it's not coming up when i open bash tho

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even tho i edited it

lone thicket
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did you save it

hot zenith
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putting it in your .bashrc means it'll pop up every time you open a terminal, provided bash is your shell of choice and not zsh or something else

zealous tusk
fathom veldtBOT
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You're thanking too much ó_ò

zealous tusk
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hot zenith
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To be perfectly honest, if you don't know the difference between a word processing document and a plain text file, I would be very hesitant about using arch or any of its derivatives. You're much better off with a plug-and-play kind of distro family with more stability like Fedora or Mint

zealous tusk
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i thought the best way to learn was dive off the deep end tho

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hot zenith
# zealous tusk i thought the best way to learn was dive off the deep end tho

not entirely wrong, but you have to be crazy enough and persistent enough to force yourself to learn for long-term. Endeavour (which is Arch-based, but comes with yay instead of paru) was the first distro I used for more than a week, and I learned a lot in trying to fix things. But there were a lot of things I needed to fix, and mostly stuff I didn't know any better at the time. So I don't recommend doing that for most people, because most people aren't ready to slam into problems like this six times a day.

zealous tusk
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it's probz a bad idea tho ur right

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but i thot fucking up is the best way to learn

hot zenith
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and I was already very familiar with using a terminal and how programs and configs worked, it was still a rough ride for me for quite a while

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so it's a matter of how much of a rough ride you can take at once; if you're up for it, a more technical distro will teach you more faster, but it'll also wear you out faster and require way more effort to keep fully functional.

zealous tusk
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yeah i still dk shit about configs

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im willing to put up with it

hot zenith
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you'd still be learning a lot on an easier distro, just won't be this much this fast. Only you can know how much you're up for, so that's a judgement call

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