Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
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Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
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Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#2I like arch Linux, I just wish they had a simple installer -- these days I tend to have lots of vms hanging around, and I haven't found a super simple way of making a quick arch VM. There doesn't seem to be any official vagrant boxes for example.
I can believe the lack of a simple installer is what has kept the quality up -- it is a way of signalling users should be prepared to use the terminal.
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#3So why exactly is Arch a better Linux distro compared with the rest ? There's no "sellingpoint" in the article except this "dig" at the other distros :
"apt-get dist-upgrade or something similar every 6 months or so (and risk breaking everything)"
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#4The post is from 2015. Since then the abs tool has been deprecated (use asp from AUR instead) and the i686 version is nearing end of life and will be unsupported by November 2017. If you still need 32-bit Arch Linux, you can use archlinux32 [1].
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#5I like arch Linux, I just wish they had a simple installer -- these days I tend to have lots of vms hanging around, and I haven't found a super simple way of making a quick arch VM. There doesn't seem to be any official vagrant boxes for example. I can believe the lack of a simple installer is what has kept the quality up -- it is a way of signalling users should be prepared to use the terminal.
Antergos[0] might be what you're looking for,
never tried it myself though.
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#6I like arch Linux, I just wish they had a simple installer -- these days I tend to have lots of vms hanging around, and I haven't found a super simple way of making a quick arch VM. There doesn't seem to be any official vagrant boxes for example. I can believe the lack of a simple installer is what has kept the quality up -- it is a way of signalling users should be prepared to use the terminal.
Here you go: https://antergos.com/
In opposition to Manjaro (which is an Arch fork), Antergos is Arch + install GUI with default desktop env.
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#7I like arch Linux, I just wish they had a simple installer -- these days I tend to have lots of vms hanging around, and I haven't found a super simple way of making a quick arch VM. There doesn't seem to be any official vagrant boxes for example. I can believe the lack of a simple installer is what has kept the quality up -- it is a way of signalling users should be prepared to use the terminal.
Antergos[0] might be what you're looking for, never tried it myself though. https://antergos.com/
"Always Fresh. Never Frozen."
Sounds like a vegetables commercial :)
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#8>I’ve configured the compiler once to work in an optimized way for my specific CPU, then compiled all the LXDE packages from ABS and installed them. I noticed they were running a little bit faster after that.
I would love to hear about what configuring the compiler to work in an optimized way for your specific CPU entails.
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#9I like arch Linux, I just wish they had a simple installer -- these days I tend to have lots of vms hanging around, and I haven't found a super simple way of making a quick arch VM. There doesn't seem to be any official vagrant boxes for example. I can believe the lack of a simple installer is what has kept the quality up -- it is a way of signalling users should be prepared to use the terminal.
Arch Anywhere is a GUI installer: https://arch-anywhere.org/
Re: Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
#10I briefly considered Arch, a few years back that I was having a relationship crisis with my Fedora.
Unfortunately it was a no-go for me for the following reasons, but the situation may have been improved since then:
1) Back then it was only recently that they had instituted package signing and verification for their official packages. Ouch! That was something that most distros had for years back then. So security wasn't their primary concern.
2)There were 2 or 3 package managers. pacman was the one, don't remember the others and I didn't understand their purpose.
3)They were touting abundance of packages, but these were mostly AUR packages. AUR packages, back then at least, were completely unvetted, arbitrary packages provided by... anyone basically. And the official Arch documentation was crystal clear that they don't support them and that the user, individually, should inspect each one for their integrity or possible malicious intentions. Uh, no thanks.
Hope the situation has improved because I was planning to give it one more try at some point.