I finally did it! [A celebratory post about switching to Arch]

[zenith]

Well I've finally done it. I've switched over to Arch in full on my laptop. I'm ecstatic, but considering no one I know in real life would have a clue what I'm talking about, I thought I'd share it here. Making the switch was actually one of my New Year's resolutions, so getting started on those early feels good too.

So much excitement!

[madf0x]

Nice. I really enjoyed arch until one day it up and shat itself on me. Might turn back to it one day.

[zenith]

Nice. I really enjoyed arch until one day it up and shat itself on me. Might turn back to it one day.

Lol. The initial set up required a little more finessing than when I installed it as a VM to test it out, but I'm loving it so far. Not too worried about breaking it, but worst case scenario I'll get to learn from my mistakes and I can just do a fresh install again in about 20 minutes. No biggie.

[madf0x]

Yeah my crappout occurred a good 6/8 months after installation, so I was already commited. Still don't know what happened to bork it all to hell, and keep in mind I was fixing the occasional kernel related issues, so Im not unfamiliar in troubleshooting some complex issues on it.

Ill just blame it on the phase of the moon.

[proxx]

Welcome young archer.
You will need to be able to solve your own shit , nevertheless I will try to help you where needed.

[d4rkcat]

Segfault, Ooops and rage format in 5, 4, 3 ...
No but seriously good stuff, I hope you backup shit on the regular. 
you are a brave soul.

[techb]

Am I the only one around here who has never had any issues other than an occasional driver problem? Even with all the updates,  nothing wrong.

[proxx]

Am I the only one around here who has never had any issues other than an occasional driver problem? Even with all the updates,  nothing wrong.

Me neither , not much apart from the common issues with libs etc but this is a linux issue in general.
Never udate before reading the news, it just works.
If something bricks 99% of the time it is your own fault.

[madf0x]

Oh Im pretty sure it was my fault somehow. Just the 'bug that got away' I guess.

[zenith]

Segfault, Ooops and rage format in 5, 4, 3 ...
No but seriously good stuff, I hope you backup shit on the regular. 
you are a brave soul.

Haha. Nah I've never stored much of anything locally on my laptop anyways. Anything pertinent just stays on a flash drive. So less brave, and more that I just have nothing to lose.

Yeah my crappout occurred a good 6/8 months after installation, so I was already commited.

INB4 I make a topic 6-8 month from now asking if anyone has any idea how to fix my boned OS. lol

[konos]

Am I the only one around here who has never had any issues other than an occasional driver problem? Even with all the updates,  nothing wrong.

I have been using Arch for a while now. Initially it shit me how things kept breaking, when I gained more experience and knowledge I quickly realised It was the operator more than the machine lol. Haven't had a problem in a long time now.

[Stackprotector]

<3 been using it for 2 years now. Not a day without archey.

[Kage]

Nice congrats I like Arch ^^
However our distro broke itself one faithful day when we updated it, there was some bug in pacman which caused it to crash mid-update. It should be fixed now though. It essentially fucked the server over and we had to recover data by booting from a diff disk  . We use Debian for now 
But Arch is one of my favs ^^