What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

haxit · 2009-06-17 18:58:01

School work, personal stuff, web browsing, coding, modding, etc...

flammenwurfer · 2009-06-17 20:36:08

I run arch on my Desktop, netbook and media server.

Desktop is Arch only. I use it for browsing, email, some light image and video editing, tweaking/fiddling, occasional gaming.

Netbook is dual-boot Win XP and Arch. I only leave XP on it in case I want to sell it, so I can restore it to original state. Arch is all I ever boot into on it though. Mostly web browsing and email, but I also download pictures from my camera when I'm not at home, ssh into my media server and desktop with it.

Media Server is Arch only as well. No gui, it just runs ps3mediaserver to serve my pics/music/videos to my PS3. I'm sure eventually I'll give it more responsibilities, but that's it for now.

rwd · 2009-06-17 22:47:28

websurfing, watching movies, writing, programming, tinkering with my system. I'm also thinking of making music on my computer and that is an area where I'd choose Mac OS over Arch (or Linux in general).

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Renan Birck · 2009-06-18 00:22:19

Office stuff, programming, writing documents, circuit design/simulation, calculus with MATLAB and Mathematica, playing SNES/Atari/Genesis games (zsnes/Stella/gens). That would be it, I'd guess...

adamorjames · 2009-06-19 16:25:04

• Create art and edit images - Inkscape mostly with some Gimp (website design, game art, photo editing, etc)
• Listen to Music - MPD, MPlayer and online sites
• Watch videos - MPlayer with and without VDPAU decoding (stream mp4 from YouTube and decode with VDPAU or watch videos I downloaded)
• Tune guitar - Lingot (have to use "aoss lingot")
• Keep connected - OpenSSH and x11vnc
• Chat - Irssi, gtalk in gmail and Skype (with Irssi I use screen for SSH)
• Browse the internet - Firefox
• Torrent - Deluge
• Write stuff down - gedit
• Script and code stuff - gedit
• Create presentations and such - Google Docs (maybe use OO.o if I had to)
• Basic video editing (cutting and encoding) - mencoder
• Monitor system - Conky (CPU, GPU, HDD, network, fan, RAM, SWAP, etc along with other stuff that isn't system like weather)
• Find out when sites change - Specto
• Test website designs and such - LAMP
• Play old games - SDLMame and all the other stuff (don't do this much)
AND
• Play that one game - the one with the small round things that have hammers, turn in to ninjas and all that stuff (don't do this much)

There's probably more stuff I do but this is good enough for now.

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Neheb · 2009-06-20 00:05:04

Mostly I break my innstalation by doing stupid things and then try to fix it.

Other than that I primarily code (other than xna), browse the internet and watch movies/series.

R00KIE · 2009-06-20 09:54:01

I do everything (well almost) with my notebook + arch. That includes browsing chatting, writing reports, watching movies, using EDA software (although I'm setting up a chroot with centos for compatibility reasons now that I've finally made the move to arch64), administer remote machines (with other OSs), maintain my (extremely simple) homepage with kompozer, use deluge and amule , quite regular usage of virtualbox and thats what I can remember now.

For casual gaming I still use my desktop with a dual boot with XP, my notebook has a radeonhd 2400 and I'm sticking with the open source drivers because the EDA software works a whole lot better, needn't say more I guess.

Oh almost forgot, and be delighted how simple and easy it is to do things in arch, if you need something just search with pacman, if you don't find what you want then do a quick search in AUR and thats it, pain free. Then head to the great wiki and check how to configure your newly installed and shinny program if needed.

zodmaner · 2009-06-20 10:27:21

I use Arch to do pretty much everything except playing games that required 3D acceleration and some Windows applications that refused to run correctly in VirtualBox.

hoellp · 2009-06-20 10:37:30

I mainly crawl around the web, listen to music, watch movies, series, etc. Most of the time goes actually in gaming. I haven't had Win installed for 5 years and never had a problem finding enough games. Neither my current desktop, nor my notebook has seen an MS product.

Stagnation · 2009-06-20 12:58:42

I mess around on the internet, play World of Warcraft and some Wesnoth, and generally just tool around.

I have a Windows 7 partition set up that I planned on using for gaming but I've pretty much converted to console gaming so I never boot into it.

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Trent · 2009-06-20 18:45:55

Neheb wrote:

Mostly I break my innstalation by doing stupid things and then try to fix it.

Yep, same here.

I don't have Windows installed anymore, but I don't do much... browsing, mostly. Watching the occasional movie. More recently, running VMs. Coding with Vim (python and C, mostly -- some Perl). Email. That about sums it up...

2501 · 2009-06-20 19:34:44

Python mainly and data mining...a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTT of surfing.

-2501

eDio · 2009-06-20 19:58:16

R00KIE wrote:

Oh almost forgot, and be delighted how simple and easy it is to do things in arch, if you need something just search with pacman, if you don't find what you want then do a quick search in AUR and thats it, pain free. Then head to the great wiki and check how to configure your newly installed and shinny program if needed.

+1. Generally, installing software in linux is a pleasure, comparing to windows.
I was confused a little at the beginning of using arch. But pacman is very-very handy and I prefer to use it, instead of gui front-ends.

bwh1969 · 2009-06-21 17:33:20

I do everything: manage music/ipod using Amarok, rip cd's into m4a (better quality/smaller files in my opinion than mp3) using soundkonverter, rip DVD's for later watching using k9 copy, surf the net using firefox, do work using either MS Office 2000 in wine or I use OpenOffice. For those things I can't do in Arch (buy amazon mp3's using the downloader), I launch Kubuntu or XP in VirtualBox.

betax · 2009-06-21 20:33:18

Porn

celthias · 2009-06-21 22:14:54

- The standards (music/movies/chat/web browsing)
- Uni
- My little projects (mostly C/C++, Ruby, and generally tinkering/learning)

I used to use Windows all the time as I was tethered to it for games, but as my disinterest (read: cynicism) with today's games have grown I game less and less, so the XP partition became redundant (I wouldn't mind a Quake Live client for Linux but). I will admit I've been playing with 7 a bit though, just to keep a broad spectrum on things.

Intrepid · 2009-06-23 01:51:34

Yeah I use Arch for creating music/multimedia/video and Windows 7 for a FEW games. But it's amazing what I can do here. My tools:

Roland Fantom X + Behringer UCA-202 (mixer and synthesizer combo), Ardour 2, Rosegarden, Qjackctl, Hydrogen (for drums), Audacity (for messing around), Kdenlive (video editing)

If you need some kind of composition software, try a "MOD tracker". They're designed for people who don't play instruments but want to make some decent-enough music.

rpgcyco · 2009-06-23 07:20:43

I use Arch on my PC at work.

I do a few random things on the servers, usually when the sysadmin is away, but most of the time I'm answering questions, righting emails and browsing the web for solutions to stupid problems.

I have Arch installed at home as well, but considering all I really do at home is game and surf the web, I rarely boot into it.

eDio · 2009-06-23 07:52:29

Intrepid
I do play piano, but I have no any hardware synths, just a midi-keyboard. Even soundcard has no built-in midi synthesizer (ESI Juli@). Under windows I have Emagic Logic Audio 5, which is bundled with great synths itself, and few VSTis (Edirol Orchestral, Musiclab Realguitar...). And under linux there are no great "rich" synths AFAIK.

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Intrepid · 2009-06-24 00:53:15

You are right about rich synths, but you could compile ardour/rosegarden with VST support (I don't know about VSTi) and use a very nice soundfont with fluidsynth. It DOES make a difference having a decent hardware synth as there are very few good soft synth on linux.

segoe · 2009-06-24 01:47:08

Mostly writing essays and poetry.
Otherwise, programming.

Army · 2009-06-24 10:03:11

I record song ideas (Ardour + Hydrogen), I use it as a headphone guitar amp (Rakarrack), do the usual computer stuff (email, browsing, chatting), write my stuff for study (LyX, on my way to do it with vim ;-) ), I use it as TV (mplayer), I watch movies (mplayer), listen to music (mpd) and a little bit of coding in c (vim).

anubis2591 · 2009-06-25 03:50:07

Arch is my only OS and I use it for wherever my interests take me. Some days this means messing around with packet injection and aircrack-ng, playing emulated games, discovering and listening to music, playing with configs, trying out new applications and window managers, learning C, trying to use Photoshop less and use GIMP more, normal web browsing and blogging, customizing my WM and desktop and that's only some of the everyday uses. Linux and Arch Linux especially lets me do whatever I want or need to do with my computer, no matter how simple or how obscure it is.

Leye · 2009-06-25 06:58:14

To be honest, I still use Windows Vista for some games such as Ragnarok Online

On my second notebook however, Archlinux is the only operating system. It's this notebook that I take with me all the time because I do nearly everything now on Archlinux. I appreciate GIMP much more than Photoshop, and I also work around with Inkscape while listening to music (Songbird!). Linux has by the way the best Jabber messenger I think, I use Gajim to connect to Jabber/ICQ.

Playing piano, I now use Lilypond to make some sheets, and want to start recording with Jokosher.

There are some other handy tools that simply don't exist for Windows, namely Incollector and StuffKeeper, two applications that I like a lot.

Another app that I use daily is Miro. I think there's a Windows version, but altogether with the other apps I use, this is my Archlinux experience.

deadlylife · 2009-06-27 01:50:34

In order of frequency
Web browsing
Customizing UI
The GIMP
Scripting
Schoolwork

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