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Gosi

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2010-02-25

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The grumpy editor's Arch Linux experience

Jonathan Corbet from lwn.net did a review on Arch Linux.

It is now available for free <https://lwn.net/Articles/638069/>.

satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 538

Re: The grumpy editor's Arch Linux experience

Not an unreasonable article - somewhat let down by the moronic, flag waving nature of some of the comment{er}s.

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: The grumpy editor's Arch Linux experience

Not an unreasonable article - somewhat let down by the moronic, flag waving nature of some of the comment{er}s.

I'd rather someone avoid something entirely because it requires actual thought, than have them actively demand someone else do all the thinking for them while trying to reap the reward. People who stay away from Arch because it requires more than a mouse click are dodged bullets.

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satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 538

Re: The grumpy editor's Arch Linux experience

People who stay away from Arch because it requires more than a mouse click are dodged bullets.

Snipped and archived (with reference credit) for future pithy usage

bromanbro

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Registered: 2015-03-01

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Re: The grumpy editor's Arch Linux experience

Not an unreasonable article - somewhat let down by the moronic, flag waving nature of some of the comment{er}s.

I'd rather someone avoid something entirely because it requires actual thought, than have them actively demand someone else do all the thinking for them while trying to reap the reward. People who stay away from Arch because it requires more than a mouse click are dodged bullets.

Its weird how anyone using Linux (even Ubuntu) would be adverse to thought and tinkering. Even with Ubuntu, there will be cases of googleing, reading the Arch Wiki, and copy/pasteing Terminal commands to fix problems. The only difference is that Arch requires more tinkering (and an involved install process), but as a result users become more conforable with tinkering their systems. Also being able to scrutinize what packages are installed.

Unless someone merely uses Ubuntu for web browsing, they should have to tinker once in a while too. So they shouldent hate on other distros for having to do it more .

Last edited by bromanbro (2015-04-10 05:09:15)