Trying out Arch Linux

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Thanks ponder - tried Bang before (forgot about it) and its awesome!

Anyway, did a reinstall of my Aspire One and my lappie is healthy again. Will stick to Arch on it as Ubuntu was too slow Tempted now to switch my wifes PC to Arch now as well - all she uses is a browser and OpenOffice Calc.

 

[The Thug]

I got Arch up and running under VB and used The Chakra Project's modified KDE theme but it still looks and feels rather bloated.

Downloaded Crunchbang earlier and will give that a try out under VB.

 

[ponder]

Did you install kde meta packages or the individual ones.

 

[milomak]

I got Arch up and running under VB and used The Chakra Project's modified KDE theme but it still looks and feels rather bloated.

Downloaded Crunchbang earlier and will give that a try out under VB.

i think kde, to their shame, requires a powerful computer and RAM. it's the worst thing about kde4. but when you have the resources, it is quite good.

 

[flarkit]

Hmmm... may have to give this a whirl in a VB

 

[ponder]

Downloaded Crunchbang earlier and will give that a try out under VB.

Also try ArchBang, same idea. Loving it on my laptop.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

An update on my Netbook install: Used Open Office last night for about 7 hours doing my UNISA assignments and it performed as good as on my desktop. In all hounesty I can say that Arch is making me more aware of what is happening under the hood and many of the tweaks and optimisation is also possible on my UBUNTU.

Just UBUNTU makes me a Windows user - everything gets done for me.

 

[Lino]

I still have Arch Linux installed on my "test pc" however I am struggling to install software that is not in the main repos. That alone stops me from using it as my main os.

 

[ponder]

I still have Arch Linux installed on my "test pc" however I am struggling to install software that is not in the main repos. That alone stops me from using it as my main os.

What software are you struggling to install? Have you looked at AUR & Yaourt?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Got my Netbook to now auto-disable the touchpad on the detection of any external mouse. Was a bit of a mission writing the bash script as the general web readme's are a bit out. In all hounesty I should do the right thing and contribute towards them with my solution.

 

[Lino]

What software are you struggling to install? Have you looked at AUR & Yaourt?

I looked at both solutions, yaourt works pretty well. Except PKGBUILDs always give me issues when it comes to install software

 

[Tinuva]

How can it 'always' give problems? I've been using it for over 2 years now on both servers and desktops and it rarely gives a problem or 2, but nothing one can't sort out. I've even made my own PKGBUILDs with the help with users from the forums ect.

 

[ponder]

I looked at both solutions, yaourt works pretty well. Except PKGBUILDs always give me issues when it comes to install software

I find that very weird. Did you do a pacman -S base-devel ?

 

[jeanres]

yaourt is dying clyde FTW!

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Just a bump but I'm really loving Arch. My old desktop is lightning fast compare to Ubuntu even though its running the same apps. I'm also getting to understand how Linux really works and I'm resolving a lot of small issues I use to have in the past.

 

[semaphore]

The only thing i like about Arch is that its a fork of gentoo, but otherwise that's where it stops. I would rather use gentoo over arch, just because portage/emerge is better. Not a huge fan of pacman, but ubuntu is nice and fast. I like it that linux has become the os where you dont need to tweak it for a month to get it to work how you like.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

semaphore, I've been on Ubuntu since I converted to Linux and Arch seems the natural evolutionary step for me. Will give Gentoo a try one day.

 

[semaphore]

In the end it just comes down to personal preference

 

[ponder]

The only thing i like about Arch is that its a fork of gentoo, but otherwise that's where it stops. I would rather use gentoo over arch, just because portage/emerge is better.

If I ever heard a load of poppycock then that was it

Arch is not a fork of anything it was developed independently from any other distro. Arch has very little in common with Gentoo except they are both gnu linux, Arch actually resembles BSD in certain ways.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions

 

[semaphore]

If I ever heard a load of poppycock then that was it

Arch is not a fork of anything it was developed independently from any other distro. Arch has very little in common with Gentoo except they are both gnu linux, Arch actually resembles BSD in certain ways.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions

Eh ok so i was wrong, but im pretty sure i read somewhere i was a fork of gentoo. And actually Arch's pacman system is very close to gentoo's portage system