The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

stabele · 2009-04-23 19:12:55

Peace for all brothers!
Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Crux, Slackware, CentOS and even Suse, Mandriva, Fedore and Ubuntu are all equal and great distros!

...Arch is just more equal and more great;)

Peasantoid · 2009-04-28 02:45:17

stabele wrote:

Peace for all brothers!
Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Crux, Slackware, CentOS and even Suse, Mandriva, Fedore and Ubuntu are all equal and great distros!
...Arch is just more equal and more great;)

Truth, bro'.

(edited to remove unfunny joke)

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bwh1969 · 2009-04-28 11:01:54

I agree they all have their strong points. Arch is getting better at having things "just work." I especially like what they are doing with Arch here

http://chakra-project.org/

It does a pretty good job of giving the total experience "out of the box" while not seeming bogged down like some of the other distros that aim for that.

sfauzia · 2009-05-25 06:36:48

What I like about Arch Linux is that offers a blank slate: Linux and a package manager. Pacman is truly the best, and without the AUR I probably would not have stayed with Arch. I have never, so far, had to download something from source without yaourt or the ABS. My system is fast (11s bootup vs. 30s with Ubuntu), not buggy like it was with Ubuntu, and more customizable because all the config files are so accessible. Then the ArchWiki is very comprehensive and helpful; I was using it even before began using Arch Linux! I had tried openSUSE, both KDE and GNOME DE versions (the KDE version lasted longer on my computer than the GNOME, but RPM eventually became unbearable), Fedora (KDE, horrible experience), Debian (twice, both times didn't last more than a day), Puppy Linux, Fluxbuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu... each time coming back to Ubuntu, but never quite feeling right till I installed Arch Linux. Now, I am as happy as happy can be!

I like what Primoz pointed out. I used to reinstall Linux so often when a serious problem occured, sometimes several times during the month. It's far more easier to troubleshoot and fix issues in Arch than with other distros. I also like how our forums are less crowded, so there's no need to do bump posting to get your voice heard. Too many posts at the Ubuntu Forums go without a single reply...

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z.s.tar.gz · 2009-05-26 20:49:13

Arch is the best because it is/has three things others don't:

- User controled
- Good package management
- Community Driven

I just wish installing wasn't such a pain...

Peasantoid · 2009-05-26 20:50:05

z.s.tar.gz wrote:

I just wish installing wasn't such a pain...

Why not just clone your system and copy it back whenever you screw up? That's what I do.

jozefk · 2009-05-30 19:08:40

how do you clone your system and copy it back?

ozar · 2009-05-30 19:15:29

Peasantoid wrote:

Why not just clone your system and copy it back whenever you screw up? That's what I do.

Same here and have been doing so for years. It saves me countless hours of reinstalling from scratch, and allows me to be much more experimental than I'd be otherwise.

jozefk · 2009-05-31 07:14:16

man dar and there is everythign explained

cheers

Vamp898 · 2009-06-10 08:09:59

New Software
Godlike Package Manager
Arch Build System

just love it

n0w-X · 2009-06-11 23:37:50

well well well .. i never thought i would have joined the official Arch forum.. let me just start off as saying.. I started out on Linux when i had just a dial up modem which isnt too ancient to me, but maybe to others..

I started out using Redhat, then SuSE then Corell, then mandrake, then slackware, then debian, then gentoo, FReeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD and then jumped in the distro wars when I started using FreeBSD and hooped and hollared about how I would never use Linux again because of the distro variations and how i could not get one solid unified support on help with my hardware through config files... and now look approximately 11 years later.. after religiously using windows XP for multimedia purposes for three years, and also getting frustrated with FreeBSD for a couple of those... i made my way back to Arch Linux.. I think the package manager.. aka pacman was a great idea..

and although i still get pissed off every now and then because i want it to work straight out the box.. the one thing that always strikes me..is.. think how you are goign to make this work with the guidance of the forums and docs.. and i just want to thank the whole Arch Linux team for keeping my interest in Linux going after all these years.. Ubuntu is too easy.. and well i want to think for once.. and be happy at the end of the day, that at least i was competent enough to folow the docs and the forums to make this work to my satisfaction lol..

i will be carrying on my recordings on Linux now.. this will be very interesting..

vennen · 2009-06-21 05:51:00

Suspend-to-RAM and hibernation things always killed me in Linux. Thats why I avoided it on my laptop longtime and used M$ production. Yesterday I install pm-utils on my HP Compaq nx 7400 and was shocked about 'suspend to RAM' speed and waking up also. I got first Arch installation jn my desktop last year summer and still love it so much. Big, huge thanks to the team and all the community!

kjamc1982 · 2009-06-23 22:57:57

I have been using Linux on and off for the past ten years. I first used Red Hat and others at first since they were the easiest to install at the time. It was a great learning experience in the late nineties just to use something different. However, at the time my computer had a winmodem which sucked. I went on to other Linux distros, just never really liked them as much as Slackware. However, I have not try any recent Slackware and wanted something different with dependency checking package management. So I came to Arch and more than likely will stay with it. Now I just need to get rid of my Zune and I will be fine, "I think". Zune is used mostly for audiobooks.

guzz46 · 2009-06-28 01:02:27

I have not been a linux user for very long my first experience was with ubuntu 8.10 dual booting with vista, well after using ubuntu for a while it wasn't long before i completley removed vista all together, i liked the fact that my computer didn't seem to slow down over a period of time/get infected with spyware/need a antivirus program running in the background reminding me i haven't scanned my pc for over a week etc...
After learning the basics of using ubuntu i started getting the urge to try out other distro's to see if there was something better i was missing out on.
I tried mandriva, opensuse, mint, fedora, debian, puppy, sabayon and while liking certain aspects of each one i was never full satisfied with any of them, then i came across archlinux and i have to say i think my distro hopping is finally over.
I like the fact that it gives you a base system and allows you to customise it any way you want (after trying out a bunch of different desktop environments i eventually settled on xfce4 with compiz as the window manager)
It gives you complete control of want you to install, comes with pacman which downloads everything in a zipped format saving bandwith, has a great community that are fast to release patch's for propitery stuff like ati drivers, has a great wiki plus i don't have to wait six months for a new version to be released, i can't help but wounder why it doesn't sit higher on the distrowatch list.

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wriggary · 2009-06-30 10:56:15

Arch is the best because... I registered an account on the forums, checked my gmail, wrote my first post, all within a text mode installer... that actually works.

mjheagle8 · 2009-07-12 19:17:31

i just migrated to arch from ubuntu. i'm not going to lie, the install and initial configuration was a tad daunting. but it was definitely worth it. i use openbox, and it flies! way faster and better than ubuntu.

Curly Wurly · 2009-07-15 10:55:07

Yes, I love Arch, it's awesome.

User1279 · 2009-07-15 23:10:15

I am back from a year of Ubuntu. It was nice. But Arch is cool. KDEmod also! Keep on the good work.

archnub · 2009-07-18 03:35:14

I wont say that its THE best as I there are several distro's all vying for the #1 spot in my book, but Arch is certainly one of those on the short list. I think Arch is the very best distro out there for the niche that it seeks to fill.

jasonwryan · 2009-07-18 03:47:00

For a balance between configurability, speed and package availability, Arch is definitely one of the best. For elegance, it leaves the others in the dust...

knopper92 · 2009-07-23 18:24:50

I just started using arch. It really does rule!!

Pacman is awesome too!! Shit-fast package installations FTW.

celtic426 · 2009-07-26 16:17:23

Arch is perfect for me! I have my system all set up very nicely. Using gnome. Much faster than ubuntu.

The main things I use my system for are: firefox, Netbeans IDE (works flawlessly), as well as Virtualbox. Very happy with it!

akephalos · 2009-08-06 06:43:54

celtic426 wrote:

The main things I use my system for are: firefox, Netbeans IDE (works flawlessly), as well as Virtualbox. Very happy with it!

My Arch QEmu installation was the first I could set-up to have full speed. Now I can get rid of Virtualbox.

jelly · 2009-08-06 06:46:52

KVM rocks , it's really simple , less deps then virtualbox and it works fine

jmdennis · 2009-08-10 20:57:23

I have hopped around to different Linux distributions over the years. I even used Chakra as I did not like going through the setup process to use Arch. It is not hard but just time consuming. I stopped using this for a while as the video on my motherboard was not well supported and when xserver 1.6 came out this bite me and I could not use my PC any longer. I could have probably waited for a fix but I did some more hopping. I also have problems with KDE 4.2 as it kept having plasma errors but that was a KDE issue and was easy enough to work around. I built a newer PC and came back to Arch and will not be switching any more. I still have some issues with applications quitting but I know the problem is with the applications and not Arch. I am staying with them as I like to get updates almost as soon as they are released. I am quite impressed with how much has changed since I last used it and will be staying this time.

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