Arch Linux

zowki

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From: Trapped in The Matrix

Registered: 2008-11-27

Posts: 582

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Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

I (sadly) still use windows for games, multimedia and school work. But use Linux for hacking, coding, learning, among other geeky things. My biggest pain is getting my iPhone to play nice with Linux so I'm forced to use Windows for that main reason.

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antarbozi

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Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 17

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Currently just using it for web browsing, documents and some gaming/multimedia. Hopefully I'll be able to use it for uni

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foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 705

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Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Web browsing (duh!), chatting (on IRC and MSN), and university assignments which include reports written in XeLaTeX and code written in mostly C/Python.

Intruder89

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From: Belgrade, Serbia

Registered: 2009-02-20

Posts: 28

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

C programming, web browsing, multimedia and chat ... And I think any distro (but especialy Arch) gives what I need much quicker then Windows

oib111

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Registered: 2009-06-20

Posts: 87

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Normal everyday tasks? Once I copied all my music to my computer running Arch I started using it all the time. There's an alternative on Linux for almost everything, and when there isn't I can always use WINE. I only use Windows when absolutely necessary.

Ronin-Sage

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 153

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Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Pretty much everything: productivity, "coding", Internet stuff(social networking, browsing, IRC and messaging), and now that Intel 3D performance is finally up to par to what it used to be, gaming.

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krolden

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Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 12

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Primarily for development and tinkering.

eDio

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From: Ukraine, Kyiv

Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 422

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Primarily for development and tinkering.

Tinkering? 0_o

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king.flasher.dave

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 140

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Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Listening to music, designing with all the stuff open source has to offer, programming (mainly java tho), chatting, hanging out, watching movies, surfing, editing music i recorded (under Windows) and mixing it.
I still have a WinXP partition on this machine but soon it will be gone. Haven't booted that shit for nearly a year now. Who needs it anyways?

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azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Watching live and recorded telly, watching DVDs, listening to the radio, listening to music (my PC is in the front room and connected to a hi-fi amplifier), web browsing, email, photo processing and printing, tracking what little money I have, keeping sad statistics like gas/electricity usage and the fuel consumption of my motorcycles and scooter, archiving scans of paper documents I don't want to keep, writing letters etc. etc.

Basu

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From: Cornell University

Registered: 2006-12-15

Posts: 296

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Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

I just run Arch on my laptop right now. Use it for coding mostly and the usual web stuff. I have Vista on one partition, but I'll probably nuke that at the end of summer and do a full 64-bit install over my whole disk. I have a Mac mini which I use for my media stuff like photos and to store my music. That's also my main machine when I'm not coding or writing a paper. I also have a server that's an old G4 PowerMac, but I plan on installing Arch on that too and using it to host my private git repos and as a general backup. I'm thinking on getting a netbook at summer's end, but I think I might just keep XP on that so that I have a windows box for fallback purposes.

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Themaister

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 652

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Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Primarily for development and tinkering.

Tinkering? 0_o

It basically means playing around with software and setups without programming or change the source code of programs you're gonna tinker with, I think. Kinda "Hacking Lite"
In that case, I tinker around a lot too

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barzam

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 277

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

I use it mostly to surf the web and chat. And all the other office stuff. I also like to try out programs and WMs.

jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Development/ IRC/ Browsing/ university assigments/ Music

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Packaging, webbrowsing, e-Mail collecting pictures and short films, LaTeX.

No windows on private computers since 3.1.

Singularity

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Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 5

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

I actually still use Windows most of the time, but that's because I'm a gamer at heart.  I wish Wine would play modern Windows games, but sadly it generally doesn't.  I don't play commercial windows games all of the time, or even most of the time -- there are a fair number of freeware and opensource games that I enjoy -- but I'm too lazy to boot into Windows to play those games, so I stay booted in it all the time.  When I do boot into Arch (like I have now) I usually just surf the web and tinker with things.  I do check up on the progress of Wine pretty regularly though.  And someday, who knows... maybe I can finally switch to Arch full-time.

Pyntux

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 409

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Web, muvies, music, gimp, testing soft....

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00l0

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Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 31

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

reading
music
watching non-porn
programming
web sufing
learning to program
encounter problems and sweat trying to solve them
watching porn
fall asleep over the keyboard

Alxe

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From: /home/alex

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 102

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Mostly everything: Games, Music, Web Browsing, Chatting, "Art" in the less proffesional way, Learn about GNU/Linux.

Things usually a teenager does. Maybe some of this days move my butt and start reading some Python, C or similar languages tutorials and learn them.

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tadzik

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From: &tadzik

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 91

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Programming, wasting my time on bbs's and mailing lists, listetning to music (as a background I'd say), working, wasting my time with some silly games.

MarcosRoriz

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 31

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

coding
surfing the web
playing (warcraft 3 still rocks )
irc + IM
porn

Devastator

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 179

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Well, I use Linux for everything I do - C++ programming, 3d graphics, some drawing with tablet on GIMP, web browsing, simple video editing, sometimes playing games. I keep my Windows XP partition "just in case", but on my secondary computer I wiped out preinstalled XP and I don't lack any functionality... so for me Arch is completely sufficient for everything I do .

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ZeroTruths

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Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 77

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Let's see...
While my laptop is out getting it's display fixed, I'm getting ready to put Arch onto it.  However, the machine that I'm currently running Arch off of will be repurposed into a personal server once the laptop comes back.
Sooo.... What I am doing?
Learning Arch well enough to put it onto my laptop with limited hiccups.
What I will be doing with Arch?
On this box, it will be typical server stuff. Hosting my files, runing a music server, downloading stuff, and even some Folding@Home. As for the laptop, In Arch I will do the typical webbrowsing, music listening, programming, and on the rare occasion, messing with images. On the laptop however, I will have Windows 7 as well, cause I do love me some games
Aaaand, since I'm talking about the future, I might as well say that once i get a PS3 (*after the proce drop) I look forward to putting Arch on it and seeing what I do with it

knopper92

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From: British Columbia, Canada

Registered: 2009-05-14

Posts: 40

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Write python programs, Make website templates...

Download music...

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

Nothing you should know.