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Excessive

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Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 13

Re: Thank you Arch, developers, users

Hello,

    My name is Derek and I am a distro junkie....well...now a recoverion distro junkie thanks to Arch.

My linux experience started around 1997 with a store bought Red Hat....version 5 i believe.   No window manager included in it.  Next came Mandrake, I am sure most of you remember the early days with winmodems and dependancy hell so MS Windows was still my main OS.

Around 2002 I was able to say "good-bye" to Windows, but every week or month or so i was installing a new distro.   With the 6 month release cycle most try to keep too it seemed there was alway a new version of something to try.  So for about 5 years I have been distro jumping.  I have tried a countless number of distros. Most of them were very good but all had their own little problems that i couldn't solve. or a new release would come out and 99% of the time it was just easier to do a clean install starting from scratch.

The way I usually decide on a distro to try is not by reading reviews, or reading anything telling me why this distro is better the others because these are all just one persons opinion.   I read the forums,  I see what kinds of problems people are having and what kind of help they are being given.   There was one distro about 6 months ago I downloaded the live cd/dvd and booted it.....I loved it.  e17 was the default wm,  I had never tried e16 or 17 and really liked what i saw.    then I went to the forum....there was a person that wanted to install KDE and was asking questions about the install....the replies he recieved were mean, rude and nasty so i trashed that distro.

I started hearing about Arch and went to the forums.  Problems were not all that severe and the help people were getting was just unbelievable.  I remember one of the first posts I read.   The person said he was fed up with arch and linux in general and was going to bsd.   Not one nasty reply...in fact the replies were very helpfull and giving advice on what to do and what problems he will see with bsd.  Right then I knew I wanted to try Arch.

I down loaded Arch and installed it.....then installed it again....and then again.  (why ask directions when you can screw it up on your own:P )  Finally I went to the forums to look for answers to problems I was having.  I never even looked at the wiki's because every time I tried that route they were never any help.  I started to notice that just about ever reply to a problem the answer was given and an extra line "there is a wiki for that problem"  and the link given.  I went to the wiki's and found answers to just about question or problem I had. 

Now for about 2 weeks I have Arch on both my desktop and laptop and feel that I have found my home after searching for nearly 10 years

So thank you EVERYONE for a great distro and the best distro for me.

If your thinking about trying Arch and reading this then I sugest you go to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … tall_Guide  print it and save it and you should have a flawless install.   Also read the wiki about pacman   that will save you a few headaches too.

Once again,  thank you Arch and everyone involved in it,  my distro jumping days are over!

Derek

I was the one who switched from Arch to FreeBSD. Guess what, I'm writing these lines from Links, while Arch is downloading Gnome at background.

I'm an example of a typical Arch lover. No matter what you do, you'll return back. It's home.

Welcome to the best Linux distribution, and the best community on the web.

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z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 278

Re: Thank you Arch, developers, users

/waze kazuya

I too am new to Arch, I remember trying the original zipslack, didn't work.
Ignored Linux till Fedora2, messed with it a bit.
I school we used Fedora5 got interested in Linux again
Tried knoppix
Earlier this year UBUNTU finally made me switch completely
obviously *buntu/Mint wasn't cutting it, too "noobish" I was interested in learning more of the internals of Linux
Tried for about a month Gentoo/Sabayon
A few weeks ago or so I tried Arch, and it's sticking, I like the KISS mentality and the total control I'm allowed, looks like I'm here to stay