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Igzilla

Member

Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 7

New to Arch

Hi All,

Just a quick to note to say how much I love my shiny new Arch system. I have been distro hopping for the last few weeks and have made the following observations:

Ubuntu 8.04 - dreadful, simply dreadful. Hard lockups left, right and centre. Whilst I like the ease of use it tries to attain, there is that underlying sense of bloat and wasted space with it. Good forums though. I went back to Gutsy briefly - no lock ups, but the internet connection kept dying, and only a reboot would solve it. Irritating.

Fedora 9 - appalling - couldn't even connect to my wireless network. Dumped after 15 mins.

SUSE 11.0 - see Fedora 9

Mint 5.0 - see Ubuntu 8.04, natch.

Sabayon 3.5 - interesting. I liked the whole Gentoo customisation feel to it, but it installed packages I specifically deselected from the installer. The upgrade process was very flaky - one upgraded trashed my Gnome desktop. Wine didn't play nice either, which is high on the list of must haves for me.

PCLinuxOS - bah, waste of time. Wine version was running at around 0.9.38 and the whole way the OS was presented just didn't do it for me at all.

Arch Linux - wow. Scary at first being dumped at the command line, and I did have to reinstall after cocking it up first time, but I feel I actually learned something about how Linux works. I feel like I have full control over my system, have only the packages I asked for and need installed. It boots up like lightning too - I also have Vista on my machine (which I barely use, so don't have much installed in it) and it would boot to the login screen much faster than any of the distros mentioned above. Now Arch blows it out the water. Plus, glxgears gives me an fps in the region of 9700. The best I've had prior to this was around 6700, so a marked improvement.

Fingers crossed, I have an OS I will never need to reinstall or be tempted to overwrite with the latest Ubuntu Dodgy Dodo offering.

Regards,

Igzilla

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,880

Re: New to Arch

Welcome Igzilla. Enjoy your stay.

11010010110

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 284

Re: New to Arch

Wellcome

rok3

Member

From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2008-03-09

Posts: 44

Re: New to Arch

Welcome to the gang!

crouse

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Iowa - USA

Registered: 2006-08-19

Posts: 901

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Re: New to Arch

..... or be tempted to overwrite with the latest Ubuntu Dodgy Dodo offering.

never had that urge .... I think your safe........

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timetrap

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From: Here and There

Registered: 2008-06-05

Posts: 342

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Re: New to Arch

Welcome! I went through the same distros too. Settled on Arch, 2 months later and no regrets.

Last edited by timetrap (2008-08-05 16:19:19)

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yama

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 71

Re: New to Arch

welcome to the community. If you take the time to set up Arch you wont look back. Its just the best distro out there. Atleast thats my opinion. Great to see that the meeting with the command line didnt scare you off.

Hope you enjoy your stay and the upcoming hours with Arch

Igzilla

Member

Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 7

Re: New to Arch

Thank you all  for your warm welcome. So far, I haven't found a single frustration about Arch, a major advance in my experience of linux. I'm not that afraid of the command line per se, just not used to it so early on in the installation process. Saying that though, I remember my first tentative dabblings with RH5, trying for hours to configure my dialup connection!

Hope you enjoy your stay and the upcoming hours with Arch

Hours?? Hopefully much longer than that

yama

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 71

Re: New to Arch

Thank you all  for your warm welcome. So far, I haven't found a single frustration about Arch, a major advance in my experience of linux. I'm not that afraid of the command line per se, just not used to it so early on in the installation process. Saying that though, I remember my first tentative dabblings with RH5, trying for hours to configure my dialup connection!

Hope you enjoy your stay and the upcoming hours with Arch

Hours?? Hopefully much longer than that

hehe. yea. should prolly exchange "hours" with "years"

diesel1

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Leeds, UK.

Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 196

Re: New to Arch

welcome to the community. If you take the time to set up Arch you wont look back. Its just the best distro out there. Atleast thats my opinion. Great to see that the meeting with the command line didnt scare you off.
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I would agree totally.  Having used GNU/Linux for more than 10 years I have not enjoyed any distro as much as Arch Linux.  I used to think that K/X/*/Ubuntu was helping Gnu/Linux but in reality it was just the very helpful staff and members of the forums that made it feel so good.

Then came the way of the Arch, with equally helpful members and the very good wiki.  I can't see me changing distribution again if Arch stays KISS.

So welcome Igzilla, to the (imho) best way to learn Gnu/Linux and the best distro to do it with.

Diesel1.

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k2t0f12d

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Registered: 2008-02-17

Posts: 31

Re: New to Arch

I'm new to Arch, too, and here to stay, provided <obligatory KISS provision>.

coarseSand

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 203

Re: New to Arch

Welcome to Arch. You won't escape. You will be assimilated by the taco.

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