[HLUG] Starting with Arch Linux

[Dave Winterton]

I use chakraos (which I guess is cheating) but do find the command line
understandable 
which is just as well as playing around between 'free' and 'open source'
display drivers 
I accidentally closed down with neither installed and now need to 'hack'
my own system to 
get it working again.
If you experts want your evening on Arch to be a comedy show........

ps my second distro is bodhi which is super fast for logging on doing
basics like email
esp with the e17 'enlightenment' desktop
but the terminal is ubunti/debian and sadly it usually beats my limited
skills

David


<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Julian Robbins [joolsr1 at gmail.com]
>Sent: 10/8/2014 2:37:59 PM
>To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [HLUG] Starting with Arch Linux
>
>Hi
>
>I've been playing with Arch recently keen to try it's rolling release
>nature and speed
>
>Its very interesting bit like stepping back in Linux time about 12
years
>ago where you did have to do a fair bit of setup and knowledge of your
kit
>before you started
>
>So far I have a bare install without X as as I'm trying it in Virtual
box
>and I guess I have wrong display driver at the moment I ran out of time
to
>look at it further
>
>Perhaps we ought to have an Arch Linux event sometime as it really
feels
>quite different to Mint Ubuntu and even Debian you gave to do far more
>configuration. This might be seen as a bad thing but it does give you a
>very clean lean system with no bloat at all
>
>You have to be careful when running updates and read the notes and web
in
>case of breakage, you have a lot of power to your fingertips ??
>
>Any other arch users out there?
>
>Keep you posted
>
>Julian
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