Anyone uses Archlinux for study/work?

Hide · 2008-09-10 20:37:55

I'll be needing Arch for my programming class. Hope i'll make a good use out of it, considering my lessons (Pascal/Delphi )

rostoQ · 2008-09-10 21:45:15

I started studying Telematics 2 weeks ago, I'm so happy with my arch setup (thinkpad x60s). Best thing is that I have urxvt&zsh (we have to use a terminal to do the basic java stuff, and the guys who use "cmd.exe" have such a PITA). For writing text & stuff use LaTeX&Co if you can, and if you cant, use OOo. The rest is trivial - there are plenty of editors and (if you want to use them) IDEs.
I still have a 10GB Windows partition for the worst case, but i didn't needed it yet. Rarely had an arch-setup that was unusable. you could fix it always in short time, because you never have the feeling something "magical" happens in arch... and usually its just something X-related, so unusable is not quite true...

phrakture · 2008-09-10 22:08:21

Dusty wrote:

phrakture wrote:
We run Arch at work for a few of our testing servers. The real production servers don't run Arch, though (because I would have to maintain them, and don't have the time)
I thought you quit.

Yeah. 15th is my last day

pyther · 2008-09-10 22:35:32

^^
The perfect time to install arch on the systems

I have been using arch since the summer of 9th grade (High School Freshman). Now I am currently in the 12th grade (High School Senior) and I am taking a Red Hat Linux class and a Cisco Class (Last Spring, this upcoming spring). The cisco class had a program which had both win + linux bins. The red hat class requires you to run RHEL5 so I got that going in a virtual machine on my arch laptop!

Also I do all the generic paper writing, presentations, etc.... within linux.

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stojic · 2008-09-11 00:15:21

I am an undergraduate student (mathematics/computer science) and I've been using Arch exclusively for the last 9 months. I use it for programming in C/C++, Java and some assembler, creating documents using latex and using CAS (mathematica and maxima). I also do some gaming, listening to music and watching movies.

I also have win2k installed in qemu because I needed Visual Studio for one of my classes. Other than that, I never needed other OS.

Overall, Arch is a very stable workstation, and when I need extra reliability I update on weekends when I have time to downgrade any problematic packages (so far there were no major problems). And when something breaks in Arch, it's usually straightforward to fix it, its openness and simplicity make it easy to troubleshoot.

Dusty · 2008-09-11 01:16:32

phrakture wrote:

Dusty wrote:
phrakture wrote:
We run Arch at work for a few of our testing servers. The real production servers don't run Arch, though (because I would have to maintain them, and don't have the time)
I thought you quit.
Yeah. 15th is my last day

Congrats. Find anything cooler yet?

Hey world out there, does anybody else think it would be awesome to donate to phrakture working on Arch full time?

Dusty

sash · 2008-09-11 01:38:56

I have been using Arch at work and at home for a good while.

The Arch machines at work are used for monitoring satellites in orbit, as well as geospatial processing and storage. Oh yeah, and my workstation and laptop for me to write code

At home, my main machine has Arch primarily to use Mythtv and to do web browsing. The machine in the home office has up to date Arch install too.

After years of continuous search, I think I can definitely say that Arch is the distro I have been looking for, able to meet all my needs.

Lord Illidan · 2008-09-11 07:52:05

Dusty wrote:

phrakture wrote:
Dusty wrote:
I thought you quit.
Yeah. 15th is my last day
Congrats. Find anything cooler yet?
Hey world out there, does anybody else think it would be awesome to donate to phrakture working on Arch full time?
Dusty

Why can't he work in circuses for a living? Most would pay lots of money to see him lifting cars over his head.

coarseSand · 2008-09-11 15:14:25

I'm a student at the local college, currently studying web frameworks and the like, the program name doesn't really fit what we actually do. Unfortunately the Canadian government is very tied in with Microsoft and its technologies, so in their best effort to get grads a job, the college focuses pretty exclusively on Windows, IIS, and ASP. I make a point of using Archlinux exclusively at home though, and it serves as a perfect coding environment, along with all the other things we use a computer for (web, music, games, yadda yadda).

About the only problem I've got is that I didn't seperate the root directories (e.g. /usr, /var) from my home directories with partitions on this install, and I have a somewhat nasty mess of dotfiles sitting around. The thing is, Arch won't break enough for me to justify a fresh install! It's about the only time I've ever been quietly infuriated that a system won't go down, and even worse it only ever needs a restart when the Adobe Flash plugin breaks ALSA. The system just sits around being 99% perfect, and it seems almost smug about that.

meugninez · 2008-09-11 16:39:50

I am an Electronic and Telecomunications Engineering student in Aveiro University and I use Archlinux for nearly 2 years. I mostly use it to program, run octave, tex, read pdfs, and mess around with it. The one thing I can not yet do with it, and really miss is to simulate vhdl, because there aren`t yet free tools for it (I really need to look deeper into freehdl, but it is still in baby stage), and access some of my University services (Microsoft owns this place). That said, cant really complain about anything so far. The system is stable, fast and clean. What more can I ask for?

freakcode · 2008-09-11 18:03:38

Use Arch for work (software development), study (TI major) and home entertainment. Not much to say, Arch simply works and gets out of my way. It's nice to have the latest versions of everything without waiting 6 months of a release cycle, also.

iBertus · 2008-09-11 22:41:37

I should add that my HP laptop is now only running Arch and NO windows! I used to have issues with locking up and weird timer issues with any linux and was stuck with Vista, but 2.6.25 fixed that! I no longer need a huge string of boot options to install and it works PERFECTLY! I'm now really happy now!

This makes 3 Arch systems for me and my wife is thinking about ditching Windows for the coolness of a simple Arch install. Maybe I can manage an all Arch household too!

smartcat99s · 2008-09-12 06:04:42

I'm a computer engineering student and I've been running Arch64 on my laptop for almost a year now (Asus G1S). I do have VirtualBox running Windows XP for those pesky Windows-only apps such as Visual Studio. I haven't dumped the native windows install yet though.

I do hope that the cx18 support gets better so I can switch my HTPC/desktop over to Arch as well.

Devastator · 2008-09-12 10:03:33

I am an electronics student (but in fact we do more programming than electronics ), and I use Arch32 for a year now (Asus G1S too, but I find 32 version faster than 64). For Visual Studio I still have a WinXP install, but for my personal projects I use Code::Blocks on Arch. XP runs about once a month or even less often

ssjlegendx · 2008-09-13 02:46:17

I am currently an undergraduate computer science student, and I use Arch as my primary OS; however, I also have a VM of Windows XP (VirtualBox PUEL).

Before switching to Arch, I -- like so many others here -- used Ubuntu, and both have treated me well in my schoolwork. LogicWorks is the only piece of course-related software that I can recall running in Windows since I made the switch to full-time Linux. I could perhaps do everything in Linux alone if I used Wine, but I have opted to stick with using my VM. VirtualBox in seamless mode is pretty nice!

Arkane · 2008-09-13 20:30:00

I used to need LogicWorks too, but it worked perfectly with Wine for me.

ziopaperinik · 2008-09-13 23:07:25

I'm a Computer Science student in Bologna, Italy.
I've been using Linux for several years and I've never felt like I was missing something from Microsoft systems.
I really love Linux and, after a couple of year spent on Gentoo, now I'm landed in Arch lands and I feel like home. I can do everything I want. This year I'm writing the thesis about the communication between humans and machines, and I'm sure I'll be writing it on Arch. Since my thesis is all based on logical operations, I think I will find all the suites I'll need.
This is the 5th year I don't have any Microsoft system in my machines (and I've got 3 machines: EeePC, a laptop and a Desktop PC, upcoming the 4th on Christmas, I'm thinking to buy a Macbook and use MacOS + Arch).

Definitively yes, I use Archlinux to study

new2arch · 2008-09-14 13:58:41

Hide wrote:

I'll be needing Arch for my programming class. Hope i'll make a good use out of it, considering my lessons (Pascal/Delphi )

I use Arch both at home & office. Word processing, skype, mail, internet - no worries here. However, I've encountered serious issues with a brand new HP printer that simply refused to interact with Arch & CentOS. 5 hours of perspiration only produced frustration.
We also recently purchased a new machine at work and I think I've must've fiddled with it for 6-7 hours trying to make Linux + printer work - but I ended up buying a XP Pro SP3 OEM. A man has to admit when he's defeated. But a fresh XP install works like a charm. Everything just works. :-)

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Noneus · 2008-09-14 23:01:19

I study electrical engineering. I never had any real issues with arch. Sometimes I fire up VirtualBox for some apps I only get a windows version of. (Why the hell is there no LabView Linux Student Edition )

I'm running arch-testing. Sometimes I have to rebuild a package because of new libraries. But that is very rare.

pablooku · 2008-09-15 09:30:03

I'm an Arch user since 2005 and before ( and after) I used and test dozens of linux's distros. By difference Arch was the unique that fit any of my projects, needs and "experiments" that my mind could imagine.
One of the things I love from Arch is the amazing capability of customizaton, in my opinion no others can compete with Arch in this area, and ABS is giving me actually machines with a more adjusted specs fitting me needs.
I use it at home, with different computers as multi-purpose servers, workstation and media-center. Even my 16yo syster has an old AMD 900MHz Duron working with Arch, installed from December 2006, and updating every 3 or 2 months, whith all she need for chattings her friends, school jobs and multimedia playback. It's so curious seeing her friends browsing trough the kde menus and testing a lot of linux apps, even being surprised for the amazing quantity and quality of the opensource software she has installed and the overall performance of that old comuter, compared with the computer they have at home.
Even at work, my workstation is working over Arch, configured with several development apps and recently set up a second server on other computer acting as NAS, LAMP, SVN, FTP, SSH and PXE server, for my area of development at work and in the future (if things goes well) to fully override the current W2K server used for development.
And also you can learn much linux console skills, that's resulting so funny and usefull for me.
If you have an idea, Arch will provide you the tools to make it real, and if you need help, the wiki and the forums will be your friends.

Ashren · 2008-09-15 10:24:22

I wrote all my job applications in latex on a Toshiba laptop 700 mhz with Arch installed. One them landed me my current job. When I look back I really wish I wrote my thesis in latex as well. Word was such a motivation killer.

I use Arch every day on the job, where it is dual-booting on my T61 work laptop. I have to keep Windows around to use VPN and Citrix, haven't gotten it to work on Arch yet, except on Virtualbox.

raul_nds · 2008-09-15 23:31:57

Computer science student here

quad3d@work · 2008-09-16 19:21:43

My current workstation is almost 2 years old and went through countless -Suy. There were times things would break but it's nothing I can't handle.

For study/work, Arch is fine. Applications on Arch actually works better for me than other distros.

rcoyner · 2008-09-17 01:39:29

I'm a CS major and my T60 is running Arch. I used to use Debian but I switched.

orion · 2008-09-21 08:43:28

I'm a Web Developer from Germany and trained "Sysadmin" (what is one of my passions too).

It was a couple of years ago, when i dived deeper in computer sciences and mentioned that there could be a operating system which is a lot better than my Windows 2000, i tried SuSe Linux and then Debian. years of "trying" followed, before i switched from Ubuntu (I first used it with version 4 or 5) to Fedora Core. With Fedora i made major Linux experiences but this year the annoyances with fedora got too big and i switched to Arch.

With Arch, i learned how Linux really works, and arch made it to my primary Operating System. Because I'm Web Developer I need some IE Versions (and Safari as well) for testing purposes, and unfortunately IES4Linux is not good at all, I run a VirtualBox with Windows XP and IE 7 in it. Baldurs Gate runs well with wine, so i only need to boot Windows for some time Playing Team Fortress 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 (and various other games). For Work, Movies, Music I only use Linux, and I miss some functionality in Windows since then Almost all Applications which I use and which are Cross Platform, run faster and more stable on Linux. Even Eclipse (which is a monster in RAM-Usage and painfully slow) runs fast and smooth on arch.

The only thing i disliked was Eclipse 3.4 in repository. Because I use PDT, and PDT Project isn't supporting 3.4 yet (which is mainly their fault and i think Arch shouldn't wait for them). But this is ok, since the newer Version seems (if it's stable enough) better than old 3.3.

Windows, even Vista, is "Hillbilly" in some technical points. It's slow, antiquated on release and has some real annoyances like Activation, DRM and "Big Mother" (i have to turn lots of things off, if i want to have a usable windows). Surely, windows got it's advantages, but for me as a professional it's not an option for a productive working environment.

Arch Linux

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