Arch Linux

disturb

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Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 70

The bleeding-edge & configs

Most of my linux experience has happened running Arch, and I've come to really enjoy the rolling release model, aur dev pkgbuilds and overall bleeding-edge aspect of the distro.
As a hacker at heart, I like to keep up with the latest versions of my favorite software, excrutiatingly configuring every bit to taste.

However, I've had a backlash lately, when my work got me administrating a couple of vps boxes running other linux distros.

What happened was that most of my dotfiles simply didn't work with the versions packaged on these distros, to a point that trying to find the culprit options ended up being too time consuming, so I just gave up and used the dreaded defaults for most things, from bash to tmux, which was rather frustrating.

Has anyone faced the same issues, and managed to find a way to stay on the bleeding while using arch, yet maintain the portability of their configs, or is it just too much work ?

JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 663

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Re: The bleeding-edge & configs

to be honest, I'm a natural born slacker and don't bother about bleeding edge at work. I keep my own computer running on Arch with my very own, personal setup, but all the other machines I look after get the pre-installed-default-outofthebox-setup with only necessary tweaks to suit the working environment.

I did try running arch on a number of machines at our shop, but in the end it's too much work. Also, when I'm not there, nobody knows what to do to keep the machines up-to-date. Now everything Linux is running Debian and Linux-Mint and everybody is happy.

I however, will not give up my arch setup