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varaahan · 2008-06-21 01:26:20

I had 64 bit Arch in my box. With my hobby of trying various distros, I wandered a lot and was using Zenwalk for a long time. My favourites were Zenwalk / Vector but Zenwalk disappointed me when I switched the DE in between the default xfce and kde. Still I have Vector as back up distro.

Lastly I have installed / returned to Arch 32 bit and it is fast and no-nonsense as usual.
May be the real competitor is Puppy in terms of speed !

Thanks for Arch developers !

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Misfit138 · 2008-06-21 02:44:45

Welcome back!
(They all come back....!)

mianka · 2008-06-21 10:09:57

I think most don"t go away!

varaahan · 2008-06-21 15:01:26

It's not a question of "going out" but just my habit of trying out other distros.
And Arch has one of the finest helpful and friendly communities in the world.
Never was I let down / snubbed in Arch fora !

JeremyTheWicked · 2008-06-21 16:16:44

Your comment about the Arch community is sooo true: I haven't found another community like this one.

jacko · 2008-06-21 19:49:16

May be the real competitor is Puppy in terms of speed !

not really. when u start thinking about it arch does a lot more doing boot then puppy does or was even designed to do. For one there is no auto mounting in puppy.

Rokixz · 2008-06-21 19:57:04

Misfit138 wrote:

Welcome back!
(They all come back....!)

I agree , the example is Me

Acecero · 2008-06-22 00:46:16

varaahan wrote:

It's not a question of "going out" but just my habit of trying out other distros.
And Arch has one of the finest helpful and friendly communities in the world.
Never was I let down / snubbed in Arch fora !

I agree with that, once you enter Arch, you stay with Arch.

Raccoon1400 · 2008-06-22 01:47:09

varaahan wrote:

It's not a question of "going out" but just my habit of trying out other distros.
And Arch has one of the finest helpful and friendly communities in the world.
Never was I let down / snubbed in Arch fora !

Certainly not the largest, that would be ubuntu, but certainly helpful.
There is a higher percentage of more experinced users here.
In the ubuntu forums, if someone wanted me to post the output of a command, they would say
open a terminal and type
sudo fdisk -l
here, they just say
post the output of fdisk -l
and assume you know the rest.
That way is better, because you aren't treated like a beginner if you aren't one.

Long story short, arch is the best distro I have tried so far. (and I have a cd wallet full of distros)

varaahan · 2008-06-22 15:00:13

jacko wrote:

May be the real competitor is Puppy in terms of speed !
not really. when u start thinking about it arch does a lot more doing boot then puppy does or was even designed to do. For one there is no auto mounting in puppy.

sure ! but the size restriction may be a reason . And it is best suited to beginners whereas Arch requires at least a little bit of linux knowledge.

moljac024 · 2008-06-22 15:02:58

Once you walk down the path of Arch linux forever will it dominate your destiny!

Misfit138 · 2008-06-22 16:19:28

Rokixz wrote:

Misfit138 wrote:
Welcome back!
(They all come back....!)
I agree , the example is Me

Well then, welcome to you as well!

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