Arch linux is boaring :)

motyR · 2006-03-05 18:34:02

Hi:)

just finished installing arch linux on my box two days ago and i can only say that arch linux is boaring compared to any other distro i've ever used(and believe me i've used them all, including rpm, deb, tgz, and source based once).

i dont get it, seems like every thing i need do with arch is so simple, every thing is installed and functions just fine, flash works, mplayer xine works with a breeze, my camera was a few clicks away(well actually not clicks, but it sounds better this way).
so what's now what should i do with my computer now?, all i need to do now is run pacman -Syu, what should i do with the rest of the time?

any way guys just wanted to say THUMBS UP for this excellent linux product, and thanking the arch linux contributers where ever they are for giving me the chance to use such a fine simple stable easy manageable and extremely snapy linux distro, hope to contribute back as much as i can:)

greetings from israel.

phrakture · 2006-03-05 21:25:56

Hah, I saw the title and was ready to argue. Good job man, nice post.

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-05 21:52:49

phrakture wrote:

Hah, I saw the title and was ready to argue. Good job man, nice post.

I second you lol
Nice post man

tomk · 2006-03-05 22:04:29

Excellent intro, motyR. Welcome to Arch, and great to hear that you're so bored.

Cerebral · 2006-03-05 22:55:10

motyR wrote:

so what's now what should i do with my computer now?
<snip>
hope to contribute back as much as i can:)

You answered your own question, friend. Welcome to the club.

DeusExLinux · 2006-03-06 00:47:59

Welcome to the program. I joined Arch.. and also was baffled.

What I do to pass the time.. Sometimes I break my computer on purpose (say by upgrading to Xorg7 before it was in extra... and having fun fixing it that way. Also remember similar fun with initrd and udev. (actually, udev was pretty easy).

But, for the most part.. I tweak setting, and.. well, just try to contribute in anyway I can.

...now, to learn c++

paul2lv · 2006-03-06 01:15:41

Offtopic, but is this your work ?? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=31447

syamajala · 2006-03-06 01:20:39

i haven't read any of this thread, but i think the forums have become so boring. There used to be a bunch of posts each day and people would post new threads every couple of hours. For the last 3 days every time i check the forums nothing has happened. No one has posted anything! WHATS GOING ON!!!!!

Dusty · 2006-03-06 01:58:21

syamajala wrote:

WHATS GOING ON!!!!!

Everything's working!!!!!!

motyR · 2006-03-06 06:17:03

10x alot guys for your warm welcome:)

paul2lv:
well yea that's mine, i've written this baby...

Husio · 2006-03-06 17:02:36

[OT] Now Arch motto will be "becouse it works"

metromini · 2006-03-07 04:55:40

Wow.. motyR "the deKorator" guy. I love ur works,man.
What's ur previous distro anyway?

Shalom from Indonesia!

motyR · 2006-03-07 13:02:01

thanks , ammm my previous distro was vector which i dont really knows what to say about it, i mean it's quiet snapy but it's got a package manager that doesnt really capeable of upgrading your system like gentoo or debian based or arch and such which for me is the most important feature of an OS, plus what annoyed me more then all is that if u get inside the vector forums all u see is posts like please dont upgrade kde cause it will cause problems, dont install beagle cause troubles might come out, and dont even want to get to xorg 7.0 and XGL, so basicly its comes to the point that your adviced not installing any thing over what had been supplyed with the disk release, i guess the only good linux experience i had was with gentoo which i've installed once and only once and lasted on my box for two years but after this period i got to the point that a simple upgrade which takes 48 hours just aint good enough for me any more, though i'll always have a warm place in my heart for gentoo...

wrj · 2006-03-07 15:37:10

I know what you mean.

I'm a reletively new arch user and so far I have nothing but high praise to the devs and community.

Mikos · 2006-03-07 19:22:06

motyR: I have also used Gentoo before Arch for about 2 years. Gentoo is excellent distribution and I still love it, but now I love Arch even more :-)

Arch is IMHO simply the best binary-based distribution and Gentoo is the best source-based distribution. And yes, I love bleeding-edge and I am really happy that Arch is so up-to-date (sometimes even more up-to-date than Gentoo ~x86).

DDspeed · 2006-03-07 20:24:41

I'm another old Gentoo user. Used it for 1 year. My first system to run that long without reinstalling . I think it's a good distro, but all the recompiling and maintance took to much time on my A1800, so I decided to switch to a binary distro about 3 months ago. Arch is really great I must say .

zolookas · 2006-03-08 16:45:06

Yes, gentoo is very good disro, but i got bored compiling everything So i have tried kubuntu, but it had conflicts and missing dependencies (required packages were not in repos), compiling linux dc++ was pain too (i use modified version), so i have tried arch and configuration is extreemely simple (rc.conf) and there isn't almost any package installing or upgrading bugs (if there is any, there's announcement + all dependencies are always installed)

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