What do you guys do on your PCs with Arch?

eDio · 2009-07-25 19:56:59

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Nothing you should know

So why you has replied to this thread?

esh · 2009-07-31 09:46:54

Need Linux out of necessity for astrophysics work.
All the fun stuff gets done on WinXP x64.

The guy in the office over is running some code dating from the late 1960s/early 1970s. No Windows back then

noone · 2009-08-02 07:36:28

Linux (debian/ubuntu/arch) is my primary OS since 2005, because i feel comfortable with it. I can do all i need with my linux box: whatching video, listening music, programming, writing report... and, first of all, it allows me to learn.

4 month ago i bought a macbook aluminium, and i use archlinux on it most of the time. i boot into leopard just when i need 5 hours of battery

I use windows just to let light in my room... yes i am not talking about M$.

mathieui · 2009-08-02 11:30:12

Well, I dropped windows some months ago, and my fedora broke itself after the first update, so Arch is the only operating system I have.
So I do everything I need with arch :
- A little coding (Python/Bash/PHP/HTML)
-I listen to my music / manage my music collections that are stored in my mp3 player (though it's a pain in the ass to keep some of my musics in the mp3 format)
-Watch some movies
-A lot of web browsing
-Chatting with irssi/gajim
-Trying to make my arch lighter
-I play a little OpenArena/Glest/Teeworlds
-Some school work

Baraclese · 2009-08-02 15:52:12

I do everyhting with Arch, mostly coding, webbrowsing, listening to music and a little gaming - quake3, emulators, wine.

eDio · 2009-08-02 17:21:52

noone
And how long your battery lasts with arch?

MethodOne · 2009-08-16 17:37:08

Web browsing, listening to music, playing games (mostly emulated), chatting with XChat, and experimenting with the system. I can't get rid of the Windows XP partition on my laptop because I'm giving the system to my sister when I move. When I get my new system (Core 2 Duo E8500, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, GeForce 9600 GT), I'm going to install Arch64 right away.

hrobeers · 2009-08-16 20:18:56

everything I do

some examples: calculations (Matlab & Octave), designing surfboards (AKU shaper), image edit (GIMP & inkscape), occasional gaming (Americas army, Enemy territory, Open arena, Counterstrike), text (LaTeX(kile), open office), IM (emesene), ...

james_s · 2009-11-16 05:56:24

I've been running linux only for a few years now, I don't really play any games (except little ones like frozen bubble, which is a favorite ), I've been switching up distros for most of that time, I've not had one for more than 6 months or so. With my current setup, I have Arch on one of my boxes, I've installed it only just recently, I'm enjoying its similarities to Gentoo, which I liked a lot. I'm using it mostly for development, I'm studying electronics and there's a fair amount of coding that goes with that. On my other box I have linux mint, I use it for just about everything else, movies, photos, music, it's a lot heavier than Arch but everything "just works", even DVD and mp3 and stuff like that, which was nice because I wanted at least one system where I wouldn't have problems if I couldn't figure out how to do something and that other people could use easily enough.

urist · 2009-11-16 06:30:11

I program (just Java right now, though I "know" Ada and C++). That's particularly infuriating as I use XMonad and my prof decided that all of our programs from now on will use swing. The normal hacks don't work, so I have to log out and into Awesome to test my stuffs.

I learn - LaTeX, Bash scripting, learning about little CLI utilities that I can no longer live without, etc.

I troll [(v) troll (circulate, move around)] various forums and bulletin boards, check out Youtube, watch fansubs, waste hours upon hours with StumbleUpon, Facebook, all of that stuff.

Gaming and music happens on my netbook running a tailored Ubuntu distro. My two main machines are similarly specced with the netbook having a slightly better Intel card than the big laptop, so all gaming happens on it. It's mostly open-source timewasters such as Meritous and Kenta Cho's numerous bullet hell shoot-em-ups.

InfernalNeutrino · 2009-11-16 14:54:11

Almost everything as it happens.

On laptop, programming (c++ and python) which mostly consists of data analysis (ROOT and Scipy), simulation work (Geant4), and miscellaneous little scripts to make pretty pictures w/ matplotlib or re-format data or whatever needs doing. Also writing documentation for my projects (latex), making presentations (beamer). More in the fun category is surfing net, playing games, watching tv/movies (hulu, etc), playing music, piddling with POVray and blender...

I actually do everything but taxes on arch... and the tax software runs on a virtual XP install, so it almost counts hehe.

On HTPC, play, store, and organize all manner of media. It's dedicated to the TV and has a better video card than the laptops so I usually use it for all the tv/movie watching when at home.

Wife's lappy does analysis and writing like mine does, but also some graphics stuff & photo editing (gimp). Also a bit of web design (html & css of course, and she does it by hand with vim).

We haven't had a computer running windows in well over a year, and are happier for it. We started out with ubuntu but it turns out that it was somewhat limiting when it came to configuration and running some of our scientific software, so we came here

Anikom15 · 2009-11-16 23:32:03

I'm sort of a jack of all trades, I program, write, make graphics, and even compose music.

ssl6 · 2009-11-17 04:27:05

I use my main Arch system for all my day to day stuff, email, surfing, chatting, some gaming, but i have a seperate gaming system with windows, that hibernates most of the time anyway. listen to music when i remember i have a ton of music to listen to. i also use it as a file server on my network, not just for sharing files though, but also streaming video. i do some photo editing, not much, that stuff's too technical, so its very minimal. I also have this impulse to run pacman -Syu 60 times a day and compile svn/git/etc builds all the time.

i also have a dozen other systems running arch that i use for trying to break stuff all the time, i wish my KVM could handle more than 4 systems at a time.

also have an eee with arch, i use it for small stuff, mostly uploading new pics from my camera to my web server when i'm on the go. the webserver also runs arch.

I've been thinking of trying another distro on a test system for a while, but I've grown so comfortable with Arch over the last few years using it as my primary OS, I just don't think I could force myself to adjust to something else, or maybe i'm just lazy, but when i install arch on something, i know what packages i need, i know how to use pacman, etc, i don't have to go searching for things to get what I want.

Cyrusm · 2009-11-18 13:48:05

my arch box is good for one thing BLOWING MINDS

also I use my arch system primarily for circuit design, logic design, programming, and school.
It turns out that linux and OSS provide some of the best tools out there, and using them has saved me literally THOUSANDS of dollars
in overhead software costs.

if you do anything with electronics:

ghdl - VHDL comiler and simulator

gEDA - mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout.

and I also use my linux box for graphics design, general use, typesetting, Nethack, SSH'ing and SFTP'ing with school and work, and a bunch of other general stuff,

Mountainjew · 2009-11-18 15:11:16

Meh, i use mine mainly for listening/organizing/downloading music and the interwebz...

Though i like to mess around with linux in general, which is why i use it in the first place. I do a bit of coding, only for college projects though, but i suck. Oh also watching movies and training videos and chatting.

lswest · 2009-11-18 16:17:05

I use my arch linux netbook for web browsing (XP is installed for iTunes when I need it on-the-go, but XP is hardly ever used, and I'm too lazy to replace it with a virtual machine, for which the netbook is probably not powerful enough), music, coding (mainly web pages and python, for heavier scripts I'll use my PC, also running Arch Linux (and Windows 7, mainly for games and itunes for my ipod), chatting on Skype, watching videos (flash/streaming video quality is iffy on the netbook in linux, slightly better in windows, but I usually watch videos on my PC anyways, what with it having a 22" monitor ), writing articles/assignments (though fewer of those during my gap year), and a number of other things. I also use GIMP + wacom bamboo tablet for my graphic design urges (Arch Linux PC). My PC is the heavily customized usability rig (basically scipts for volume, mocp controls, etc. etc.), whereas my netbook is more the heavily customized "good-looking" rig (Running openbox, lots of things customized, custom wallpaper, all scripts use notify-osd where possible, etc. etc.). The PC runs Awesome/XMonad (still configuring XMonad, there are a few things I want it to do, but it doesn't seem to), so customizing the look and feel of awesome is somewhat difficult (the statusbar, for example), and I quite like most of the defaults, so I focused more on usability.

Long story short: I use my PC/Netbook (both running Arch) for pretty much any task I need, short of syncing my iPod Touch 2g's music and movies and things or playing games, for which I use Windows XP/ Windows 7.

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fx4 · 2009-11-18 19:54:08

I use Arch on my laptop. Everything just works out of the box. I mainly use it for school work and browsing the web. Some assignments absolutely require the use of Windows, such as Visual Studio.net, data flow diagrams, context diagrams, etc done in Visio, and Microsoft Project scheduling, so I have Windows 2000 and Windows XP saved in Virtual Machines for that purpose.

JohannesSM64 · 2009-11-25 12:31:30

Everything except gaming, which is why I keep my pirated XP partition around.

Condex · 2009-11-25 19:09:23

Everything that doesn't include playing Windows games . Surf, chat, develop, play games, etc

gazza · 2009-12-01 22:48:18

I mainly use it for the web, listening to music, learning about microcontrollers (I'm just getting into it via the NerdKit), and web development. Eventually I hope to be using it for music production (for this task it looks very promising very low latency and ofcourse much less waste of processor cycles). I use fvwm for my window manager.

I started out trying suse about ten years ago, switching back to windows. I stopped going back to windows when I discovered Ubuntu five years ago, my machine was getting old and 98SE just was not cutting it anymore. I was low on funds and running XP would have meant buying new hardware.

I turned to Arch a few months ago when I was looking for more performance (for machines both old and new), and there was something about the logo that appealed to me. The logo, website, documentation and software all seem to have this beautiful aesthetic (a bit like how the apple logo makes people feel more creative (there was even a study on this)). I discovered Arch at a time when I was looking for ways to improve the ambience my office which included looking into Feng Shui, painting my walls magnolia, adding some pot plants and re positioning my desk. So arch has been part of improving my environment. KISS ~= Zen ~= Grokking (or something).

Arch is surprisingly easy to use and the Wiki and forums are outstanding.

JohannesSM64 · 2009-12-02 04:47:36

Surfing, chatting, music, videos, tinkering, some gaming. I rarely boot into XP anymore.

shock · 2009-12-07 09:25:44

I use arch for taking notes, listening to some songs and to surf the web.

nixpunk · 2009-12-07 13:15:06

I use it for everything.

3nd3r · 2009-12-07 13:27:04

wel,, everything *EXCEPT* my game. I play Final Fantasy XI with my brother, but wine doesent work well with FFXI

mang · 2009-12-07 14:53:15

since i started using gnu/linux, about one year ago, i haven't used any other os at all.
i went to a school of photography so i used adobe's software for a long time. it is such a widely accepted standard that we weren't even discussing alternatives. i use gimp/ufraw and geeqie now and had no problems in changing. i find it easier using gnu/linux to organize pictures and work more effective. i'm also doing web and graphic design and have done some stop motion, using mencoder.
also, i use it for everyday things like mail, web surfing, listening to music etc and there's nothing i do with a computer which there isn't better free than non-free software for

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