Coming back to Arch

jackmetal · 2009-11-05 15:26:03

Howdy Folks!!

It's been quite a while; I've been away from Arch for a couple years. I've decided to load it up again, on one of my laptops (and "maybe" my UMPC - Samsung Q1 Ultra)...

I used Arch for a few years and loved it. I ran it on ALL of my systems. A couple years ago, I ran into an issue though, and moved to other distro's (if I remember correctly, it was around the time of a big X change on the distro and it completely hosed my installs - particularly my main work laptop).

Well..... I've missed Arch in the meantime and thought about giving it another shot MANY times. I've finally talked myself into it. :-)

I'll definitely keep my media server, main work desktop, etc... on other distro's (at least for the time being), but I'm going to reinstall it on one of my laptops and possibly the Q1. Has there been much success with Arch on the Samsung Q1?

Thanks, and I look forward to contributing to the community again in the near future!

lucke · 2009-11-05 15:42:27

Have a welcome back taco.

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Llama · 2009-11-05 18:29:37

Now that you mention it... Unless it's an aberration of memory (I've never managed to find the post), the FaunOS guy switched to Ubuntu. How does he fare?

tavianator · 2009-11-05 18:53:50

Unfortunately you're coming back at a time when X upgrades are hosing lots of people's installs... take extra care if you want to run the nVidia blob, and otherwise try to get KMS working, and you shouldn't have too much trouble.

jackmetal · 2009-11-05 19:04:24

Awwww jeeez.. Just my luck!! X upgrades were the reason I 'left' the first time.. LOL

godane · 2009-11-05 20:10:50

@jackmetal
You could always try one of my livecd isos.

jackmetal · 2009-11-05 20:42:45

godane wrote:

@jackmetal
You could always try one of my livecd isos.

Thanks @godane, that's excellent to hear.. I was looking for a decent live Arch the other day, just to play with and didn't find a 'new' one.

Well, I got my laptop installed fine (encrypted, LVM, wireless).. Everything is looking good so far. Now it's on to the desktop config; I'm a little tired of the bloated DMs.. Gnome/KDE..etc (I used to really like Fluxbox, maybe I'll load that to play with, it's been a while). ;-)

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fukawi2 · 2009-11-05 21:40:14

They always come back

kj4 · 2009-11-06 10:16:03

I have recently come back, too. I think it's because I missed the abuse in #archlinux ; )

mivo · 2009-11-06 11:00:42

Welcome back.

I remember the X breakage and it had made me remove Arch from my work machine, too. It is just a box that I really need to be available. I installed Arch on my "have fun" desktop, though, and there haven't been any major issues. Then this weekend, I picked up an old laptop and put Arch on it. Worked flawlessly until I updated X yesterday. Long story short, a few hours later I downgraded X. Not Arch's fault, though, 1.7 just no longer supports the old Nvidia drivers, and the new Nvidia driver doesn't support the laptop's video adapter. Hopefully either of them feels like the ball is in their field.

My netbook still runs XP. Really tempted to tinker with it, but I have to admit to myself that it runs well and that everything works. That is the "bad" thing about Arch: you get addicted to its way of doing things and then you want to install it on any machine you can get your hands on!

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