$ apt-get remove --purge ubuntu_distro

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

So after more than 3yrs of Ubuntu, or is it 4yrs now, I'm decided to move on from my "starter" distro to Arch Linux.

While its been great fun and I'm happy for the good times, I've come to release that once a distro goes mainstream, so does its reliability and performance.

Its still a great distro and I will continue to install it on noobs computers but not on mine.

 

[dksaarth]

Any further explanations? Let us know how Arch treats you!

 

[adrianx]

Arch is my main distro at the moment, but I think it is still a good idea to keep abreast of what is happening in the world of Ubuntu (Fedora, in my case). You will see that much of the knowledge that you have gained from other distros will help you when you get stuck in Arch - in future.

Even though Arch has a rolling release system and many of the applications will be more current than the ones in Ubuntu or Fedora, some of the OS-specific things lag behind. That's not always a bad thing, but sooner or later you will have to "catch up".

...but when it comes to learning how things work, Arch rules!

Edit:
To give you an example - Fedora 12 has a much better implementation of Pulseaudio than Arch. Amarok doesn't kill Skype like it does in Arch, but in Fedora 12, my network card dies randomly. I can't use K9copy in Fedora, Ubuntu or Mint, but in Arch it works perfectly! So, it's a trade-off... when I need to do something specific, I boot another distro.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I think that ones needs also drive your distro of choice.

For 2 PCs I do not need multimedia - my netbook is used for ssh & browser; my wifes work PC runs apps I write (PostgreSQL & LAPP)

My home PC needs multimedia and Arch is fine. VirtualBox saves the day as I still need to run WindowsXP for my UNISA studies.

At work I'm stuck with Ubuntu as we use Ubuntu on our servers. I've no problem with this as it was actually me that got us switched from Debian to Ubuntu on our desktops (our servers where already on Ubuntu). I only use my work PC for gmail, JIRA, PostgreSQL and PHP development.

 

[Lupus]

Ubuntu has indeed become the Windoze of the Linux world, I avoid installing it on servers except for four of my boxes, the developer was like we need Ubuntu on it as we cannot develop under anything else. There I was sitting with Centos going but, but...

 

[The Thug]

Good luck with Arch.

As you know I'm now on CrunchBang and really enjoying it.

When the guys finally release a stable version of SqueezeBang, I'll give that a try out on VB.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Actually one of the reasons for me moving to Arch is how much more stable their KDE 4 is. I'm currently on LXDE with my netbook and love it, but will need a slightly more feature-filled manager for my desktop.

While I've been happy with Gnome since 2008, KDE4.4 is really just better. Also with Gnome3 it looks like they are trying to copy KDE. So I might as well go KDE now.

 

[Light]

$ apt-get remove --purge ubuntu_distro && yaourt -S arch && enjoy

 

[icyrus]

Ubuntu has indeed become the Windoze of the Linux world, I avoid installing it on servers except for four of my boxes, the developer was like we need Ubuntu on it as we cannot develop under anything else. There I was sitting with Centos going but, but...

How so?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Just did the purge last night and was a breeze to install Arch onto my desktop. Thank goodness I had the foresight to mount my /home on a seperate partition last year, made my life much easier.

Well, I tested LXDE, XFCE4 & Gnome (KDE was too big to download as I was impatient).

Must say that UBUNTU is getting too much credit, while it is still the easiest distro to install, the GNOME under Arch is near identical to UBUNTU. I've got all my lazy features still.


Must say my machine is flying now for a change. What a pleasure.