[HLUG] Starting with Arch Linux

[Leo McArdle]

I've been using Arch Linux for a while now, and it's great fun, as an
Arch event would be!

While it takes a while to get used to, I've now found it to be
absolutely perfect.
It's close, but not quite on, the bleeding edge - so no shopping around
for PPAs so you can get the latest build of whatever.
There's no cruft, because you have to install everything yourself - so
only the things you want/need.
It really teaches you a lot about Linux, and the wiki is amazing for
learning how to do whatever you need.

I'm Lovin' It™,
Leo

On 08/10/14 20:23, Dave Winterton wrote:
> 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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