I am a chronic distro hopper, so by the time you read this I might be on something else I really do hope Arch puts an end to that exhausting obsession.
It certainly did for me (wouldn't call myself obsessive, though)
]]>VoDo wrote:I just want to say, Arch Linux is only Linux what needs little to zero maintenance, only pacman -Syu is needed, every Sunday
every Sunday? sounds like manjaro.
No no, I just do not have needs to upgrade averytime I see new packages. Now 88 packages are waiting.
]]>So that really leaves Arch based distros. They all worked well, but I figure why not just go to the source and run that. The install was pretty straight forward and with the help of the Wiki, quite painless. System has been running great and I really don't know what else I could ask for in a distro.
I am a chronic distro hopper, so by the time you read this I might be on something else I really do hope Arch puts an end to that exhausting obsession.
]]>I just want to say, Arch Linux is only Linux what needs little to zero maintenance, only pacman -Syu is needed, every Sunday
every Sunday? sounds like manjaro.
]]>maintaining a rolling release distro is tough, unless with a large, accountable and friendly community. i started with freebsd in 2003, then switched to gentoo in 2004 (oh, i still feel pains recalling it), and then the arch since 2009.
to me, there are two distros world wide: 1. arch, and 2. doesn't matter.
]]>which one is more stable and has more user friendly interface?
1- linuxmint 2- opensuse 3- archlinux
///Ali
http://mgtman.blogfa.com
OpenSuse
]]>Hello. i am a newbie to linux, why you choose ArchLinux?
Large community that is helpful, fully customisable and really great repo which is large and constantly developing never falls behind updates.
]]>honestly if there were just a more stable version of arch i would be glued there. as sometimes i do not get to update for weeks or months
it does have the vital boxes ticked, even if its not my favorite
]]>Today, I run archlinux on all of my systems with i3 as my main window manager. When I don't want to be a keyboard warrior, I run plasma with the minimalistic plasma-desktop package installed along with a few extra bells and whistles. It works very well for me and I've never seen a pressing need to change ever since I switched over. Sometimes I'll experiment with other distros in a VM just to see what I might like to mimic in my arch installations.
Note: I also used FreeBSD starting around version 8. I liked the base system and native, legal ZFS features at the time, but custom building/updating ports packages made me feel like I was running into very similar problems I experienced with Gentoo. Updating a package only to run into segfault errors became a weekly problem. If I use systems like that today, I always opt for the binary releases and only custom build a port if it's necessary.
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