Arch Linux

olovram

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Registered: 2008-10-10

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Why I love Arch Linux :D

Today, I enabled kms by default, only editing mkinicpio.
Before kms, I had been totally unable to get a full resolucion frambuffer, even with uvesafb. And i915-resolution didnt even
recognised my card, a Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

But when I first booted with kms, I thought I was in heaven

Also, with this new drivers, that annoying bug in openbox when using rgba + murrine + xcompmgr + openbox(making window borders
use false transparency) is nowhere to be seen n_n.

Last, but not least, because of the x86_64 april's fools day joke, I made the swich to 64-bits in 2 days! And just 10 minutes ago,
I deleted my 32-bit particion n_n

Arch Linux, just rock U_U

mikesd

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 788

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

Yeah. I sort of wish I had Intel graphics so I could play around with KMS.

Last, but not least, because of the x86_64 april's fools day joke, I made the swich to 64-bits in 2 days! And just 10 minutes ago,
I deleted my 32-bit particion n_n

It's amazing how many people seem to have changed to x86_64 due to the April Fools joke. I'm sure there are some stats available somewhere to show what the increase is regarding x86_64.

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arew264

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From: Friendswood, Texas, US

Registered: 2006-07-01

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

I love Arch because I can push the power button, walk into the next room to start some instant oatmeal cooking in the microwave, and walk back to check my email. Not exactly related, but it's Why I Love Arch Linux.

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

I love arch linux because if I don't want instant oatmeal, I can download the pkgbuild, edit a couple of lines, makepkg and lo I have bran flakes instead. Sweet.

XFire

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 192

Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

No bloat; rolling release; easy to configure system - no other distro seems as easy to configure; everything seems to more or less work after some configuration; just about everything.

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Cheesebaron

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-10-31

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

No bloat; rolling release; easy to configure system - no other distro seems as easy to configure; everything seems to more or less work after some configuration; just about everything.

What XFire said. I really love Arch because of this - the community is also pretty big behind it, which is a big plus. Just go to the IRC channel and you will be able to speak to archers right away about your troubles and problems - you don't even have to go out and drink them away!

But I also really like that the system does not break as much as Gentoo did for me after a simple system update. Mostly nowadays it is because of Xorg, which usually is easy to fix. In Gentoo everything broke and took a lot of time to do, because of recompilation and stuff. I am really happy that I made the change, and I got myself a fine sticker for my laptop to show off that this system runs Arch.

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halhen

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From: Gothenburg, Sweden

Registered: 2009-04-08

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

Arch has resurrected my inner geek. And +1 on what XFire said.

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scio

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From: Buffalo, NY

Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 366

Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

But when I first booted with kms, I thought I was in heaven

Just for my own sanity, when you first boot you still see grub in a low res text screen before the framebuffer switch right?  I removed the grub vga switches but figured since the kernel wasn't fully up yet the graphics couldn't kick in.

Netsu

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-04

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

everything seems to more or less work after some configuration; just about everything.

Exactly, my Arch motto is "Nothing is f*cked. Ever." Plus the control you have over your system. Plus pacman and it's repos.

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olovram

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Registered: 2008-10-10

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Re: Why I love Arch Linux :D

But when I first booted with kms, I thought I was in heaven

Just for my own sanity, when you first boot you still see grub in a low res text screen before the framebuffer switch right?  I removed the grub vga switches but figured since the kernel wasn't fully up yet the graphics couldn't kick in.

Yes.
Actually, I think grubs resolution is unchangeable, unless you change your BIOS resolution. To activated KMS, check allan's post inhttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 65#p522665