Arch FTW

WyoPBS · 2010-02-18 04:08:16

I have been using Arch for ~4 years now, and it seems like every upgrade something else breaks and requires more hand tweaking. I have probably vowed to install a new distro a dozen times in the past few years. So when I got a new barebones system last week, Arch was the last thing I wanted to put on it.

I shopped around for a good distro for x64 and decided that Mint would do me good. Tried it... and the first upgrade after the liveCD install broke Firefox. fdisk, reformat, try again... this time I went with Gentoo because I really like having such granular control over installation without having to do all the builds by hand like with LFS. Gentoo installed the core system like a dream... and then broke trying to compile xorg. Gaaah! Long story short (too late) I ended up with a small stack of install CDs, each one suffering from some minor or major annoyance that made it unpleasant to deal with. Some of them hid the xorg.conf files so I couldn't change the drivers. Some couldn't even get past the boot sequence. Gaaaaah!

So I turned back to Arch out of desperation. Installed the core system in less than fifteen minutes, got xorg tweaked and running nicely in another 30 minutes, got my files copied over from the old system in another hour... no tears whatsoever.

Arch, I'm sorry I left you. I'm back for good this time baby, I promise.

Ghost1227 · 2010-02-18 04:13:07

They always come back...

sHyLoCk · 2010-02-18 04:14:12

wb

Cyrusm · 2010-02-18 04:35:08

maybe someone should sticky a "....They always come back" thread we seem to be getting a lot of them in the forums.

Montetwoshots · 2010-02-18 07:03:45

Us cowboy state Archlinux fans need to stick with the best. I tried them all. Some are good but none are better.

Misfit138 · 2010-02-18 13:37:55

I think this is a "Arch is the worst distro, except for all the other ones" mantra!
Welcome back, btw.

Hide · 2010-02-18 18:34:46

Misfit138 wrote:

I think this is a "Arch is the worst distro, except for all the other ones" mantra!
Welcome back, btw.

Exactly my point, you just managed to state it benevolently and transparently

Welcome back, dude

Xyne · 2010-02-18 19:41:29

Misfit138 wrote:

I think this is a "Arch is the worst distro, except for all the other ones" mantra!
Welcome back, btw.

Arch Linux
The Least Worst Linux Distribution

smakked · 2010-02-18 22:26:15

Yep i have done the same several times when things break, but always comeback to arch if things break it is relatively easy to fix then other distros i have found, and this forum and irc are the quickest to respond then any other i have tried.

bungow · 2010-02-18 22:52:10

I have tested some linux distros (gentoo, debian, ubuntu, fedora, suse), but now I got:
home: arch, htpc: arch, work: arch, webserver: arch ... Arch FTW

n0dix · 2010-02-18 23:00:03

Misfit138 wrote:

I think this is a "Arch is the worst distro, except for all the other ones" mantra!

... including Windows, too

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Runiq · 2010-02-19 07:34:47

Xyne wrote:

Misfit138 wrote:
I think this is a "Arch is the worst distro, except for all the other ones" mantra!
Welcome back, btw.
Arch Linux
The Least Worst Linux Distribution

These two just scream for a shirt, dusty.

BTW, we do have a "welcome back" thread, though it's not yet stickified.

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samuele.mattiuzzo · 2010-02-19 10:47:22

"first time is free..."

lifeafter2am · 2010-02-19 13:04:43

Runiq wrote:

Xyne wrote:
Misfit138 wrote:
I think this is a "Arch is the worst distro, except for all the other ones" mantra!
Welcome back, btw.
Arch Linux
The Least Worst Linux Distribution
These two just scream for a shirt, dusty.
BTW, we do have a "welcome back" thread, though it's not yet stickified.

I would LOVE a shirt that called Arch the Least Worst Distro. lol!

jdarnold · 2010-02-19 14:13:42

As Michael Corleone said:

Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.

I've tried many distros but given that Arch allows you maximum flexibility to make it what you want, it seems the perfect distro, at least for anyone with even a little bit of Linux experience.

Runiq · 2010-02-19 17:33:13

lifeafter2am wrote:

Runiq wrote:
Xyne wrote:
Arch Linux
The Least Worst Linux Distribution
These two just scream for a shirt, dusty.
BTW, we do have a "welcome back" thread, though it's not yet stickified.
I would LOVE a shirt that called Arch the Least Worst Distro. lol!

It's the mutt slogan rephrased: Arch – The distro that sucks less.

ebal · 2010-02-19 17:49:09

I am an linux/opensource enthusiast and i am always trying a new distro after a couple years.
So in my home/work & laptop at the moment i use archlinux for almost a year.

Pacman seems to be one of the greatest package managers i 've ever used (till now) and archlinux is a distro that i do get very good along.

BUT (yes, yes there is always a but) every distribution has advantages & disadvantages.
There isnt the ONE & ONLY, there isnt the ULTIMATE distribution. And people shouldnt be evangelist about a specific distribution.

Gentoo's goal is performance, opensuse has yast, ubuntu's focus are on the new user, etc, etc.
I dislike rpm based distribution (cause i dislike rpm as package manager), but i use centos for servers cause there are truly stable and more predictable than debian. But debian has one large package database and is more flexible that centos (or redhat). And the list is never end. Every distribution has its goods & bads. And you,me, we should keep an eye on everything. If a gentoo developer has a good idea way not we cant used it.

After all the opensource community isnt too large (yet)

I havent used freebsd (yet) because i prefer linux based distributions.
So i dont think that i stacked on archlinux, i am thinking that with archlinux i can cover my needs at the moment.

I have my good moments with arch, i have my bad too.
But at the moment i prefer to remember only the good ones.

Arch Linux

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