Archlinux is the best distro ever.

generic_ · 2009-03-26 11:36:32

I've been using computer for about 1 year and two months. I had a computer before but it was very old and slow and ran windows 95. The story of how I got in to Linux in long and obscure but i've been using for about six months. Like all n00bs i started with ubuntu after about a month tried gentoo it was WAY too hard for me at the time ( picture using a Chinese dictionary` to translate in Sweden and thats about how lost I was.) though it did teach me alot. Eventually became comfortable with ubuntu and was trying my best to strip it down to have what I need. I kept hearing about Arch so i tried it. It was fast and I was one for speed so I stuck with it. It was hard at first and I had to put my wireless card through some torture until it gave in. Arch was minimal just what I wanted. The AUR in pure genius and thats an understatement. The people are helpful and the people who arent are decent enough to say "I don't know" instead of telling you what the "think" is right. I recently tried fedora I was disgusted! I tried red hat (people pay for that?) It made me realize that Arch is the perfect mix. Most people don't want to spend hours of compiling because on faster more modern systems the speed difference becomes less and less noticeable(and once you optimize your own kernel your set for speed). And the arch repos are full of all the important stuff and keep out tricky licensing. And unless you have LOTS of time to maintain an LFS is simply incomprehensible. In the end arch rules. Just had to get that off my chest >.>

Allan · 2009-03-26 11:38:57

Get the t-shirt: http://www.zazzle.com/original_arch_is_ … 1757299947

generic_ · 2009-03-26 11:48:19

did I mention the free thing was the best part? Just kidding I would rather donate the money than buy a t-shirt.

Allan · 2009-03-26 12:02:22

I really need to use some more type things today... But if you go to the shirt page, you will see a link to the "Arch is the best" thread.

Xiong Chiamiov · 2009-03-26 23:46:28

generic_ wrote:

did I mention the free thing was the best part? Just kidding I would rather donate the money than buy a t-shirt.

You might've, but considering the large block of text, it's anyone's guess...

robmaloy · 2009-03-27 07:55:12

indeed it is.

daf666 · 2009-03-27 09:12:36

I might get this one http://www.zazzle.com/allan_broke_it_ts … 7222531941
very geeky

olive · 2009-03-27 09:26:57

I like arch but there are still a few pitfalls. Quite often after an upgrade I have to spend a lot of time googling to repair the problems that have appeared (with no failure up to now fortunately). That dissuades me to upgrade too often particularly when I *need* my computer (I use arch all the time). But when my system is not upgraded; I often can't install new packages easily because th edependancy are too old... I miss the traditional releases where we can stay for a long time with the same release (I would like to upgrade about once a year).

thisperishedmin · 2009-03-27 12:22:50

I was looking at the shirts...and I just dont get the 14 is not a random number shirts...whats the joke?

PS - please shame me blatantly if a simple google would fix this one haha.

byte · 2009-03-27 12:41:44

thisperishedmin: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66969

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mike_93 · 2009-03-27 12:41:53

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=66969

by nine seconds...

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eldragon · 2009-03-27 12:43:45

just so that we put things in perspective. you CAN search and actually find a solution when something breaks. im ranting right now because i bought a new hp f4280 printer which cannot print through the network due to a driver bug, the windows printing spooler dies everythime you send a document throught the network. and there is ABSOLUTELY no way to debug it, now ive got to sit and wait till hp devs decide to fix it...... development cycles for closed source apps are too slow for this fast shaping world.

and no, i cannot send the printer back, where i live, first world rules dont actually apply. im stuck with it. sorry ive deviated from the topic. but i was just stating how fascinating the open source movement is compared to a closed source environment.

Allan · 2009-03-27 13:11:44

daf666 wrote:

I might get this one http://www.zazzle.com/allan_broke_it_ts … 7222531941
very geeky

I had never seen that one! I might have to get it.

But, who uses capital letters in their user name... You can see what my prompt looks like here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/ - even better if blink is enabled.

mutlu_inek · 2009-03-27 13:19:05

True, F/OSS saves the say. I have an Epson GT-2500+ scanner and its scan button is broken (it emits a continuous signal). It cannot be used with the windows driver/software and Epson support says the thing simply needs repair. On Linux it works! The scan button can be overridden by software. An error I was getting initially with gscan2pdf (excellent scanning program!) was resolved by the developer within hours after my bug report!

Oh, and Arch really is the best. I just love its philosophy, architecture, the developers (yay!) and the community.

hatten · 2009-03-27 14:08:30

Allan wrote:

daf666 wrote:
I might get this one http://www.zazzle.com/allan_broke_it_ts … 7222531941
very geeky
I had never seen that one! I might have to get it.
But, who uses capital letters in their user name... You can see what my prompt looks like here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/ - even better if blink is enabled.

make it possible to input commands into that prompt!

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Archlinux is the best distro ever.

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