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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #30 on: January 02, 2013, 01:22:34 am »
+1 to what lucid said


And in my opinion, it's way faster to install and setup now than it used to be
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #31 on: January 02, 2013, 01:56:21 am »
Quote from: fluxdaemon on January 02, 2013, 01:22:34 am
And in my opinion, it's way faster to install and setup now than it used to be

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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #32 on: January 02, 2013, 08:25:44 am »
Looks like we understand each other lucid :)
Good to have a fellow archer on the board.
(amongst all the windows users :P)
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #33 on: January 02, 2013, 09:30:14 am »
I switched from Ubuntu to Arch a year ago and still love Arch. I use it with xmonad as WM, I have no desktop manager, so I am forced to use the command line for every shit.

Arch is great for learning more about your system. It forces you to learn. This was quite what I needed.

The only thing I can't use it for is my laptop. I only use my laptop for presentations, so I rarely update the system. Updating Arch when it hasn't been updated for a long time is a pain, which is why I still have Ubuntu on that one.
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #34 on: January 02, 2013, 09:48:45 am »
Yep the rolling release can be a pain in the ass.
Sometimes I think; heck lets just update and then im going to do this and that.

Well NOT, it appears the devs had something wicked in mind and your shit is bricked.
Thats arch I guess.

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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2013, 01:57:04 am »
Quote from: proxx on January 02, 2013, 09:48:45 am
*Where did that smite come from??*
Who knows. Even though I don't care about karma it upsets me when I get a smite and yet no one has responded to my posts so I have no idea why I got it.

I used to have trouble updating my system. Every time I updated the kernel I would reboot and when I went to login X wouldn't work. Or I wouldn't be able to type anything in slim. Then one day after beginning to try Gentoo and realizing I missed Arch too much I said fuck it and went through the Arch install process again. Magically, everything worked. My kernel has probably beeen updated at least 8 times since then and I've never had a problem.

Still bothers the shit out of me that I have no idea what the problem was and probably never will..
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2013, 02:43:25 am »
Quote from: proxx on January 02, 2013, 08:25:44 am
Good to have a fellow archer on the board.
(amongst all the windows users :P )

Do you use "Windows user" as a pejorative for those who use more high-level, user-friendly distros or are there really a lot of Windows users on this board? Seemed to me most are *nix people, but I haven't been here long at all.

Also if I use Slackware, does this mean I'm not in the club?
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2013, 03:23:20 am »
No there actually are alot of Windows users. Disappointing really.

And yes you are in the club if you use Slack
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2013, 03:44:36 am »
Quote from: lucid on January 03, 2013, 01:57:04 am
Every time I updated the kernel I would reboot and when I went to login X wouldn't work. Or I wouldn't be able to type anything in slim. Then one day after beginning to try Gentoo and realizing I missed Arch too much I said fuck it and went through the Arch install process again. Magically, everything worked. My kernel has probably beeen updated at least 8 times since then and I've never had a problem.

Still bothers the shit out of me that I have no idea what the problem was and probably never will..


I've noticed this too. Several months ago it seemed like I was having to re-install Arch just to get everything working together again but recently after all the improvements and changes, I haven't had a single problem
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #39 on: January 03, 2013, 07:20:10 pm »
Just for the record, I didn't smite anyone. I appreciate all of your guys' insight. I love that ppl here use Unix or the like on a regular basis. It's fun trading conf files and continueing to learn new things through others. I've been on a few different hacking boards(binrev, extreme sec) and so far this one is my favorite. This community is active yet knowledgeable. Thank you for your replies.
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #40 on: January 04, 2013, 03:24:23 am »
I'm both a Windows and Linux user. Each have their advantages. Personally I just don't feel like fighting with my Nvidia drivers on my main PC. My laptop I only boot Linux on. I have 2 VM's on my main PC with Linux running. 1 Backtrack the other Fedora. So I dunno why it would be disappointing that there are a lot of Windows users.
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #41 on: January 04, 2013, 03:28:39 am »
I dual-boot. But only for the rare occasion when I can't do something on linux.

// God I'm glad I don't have nvidia drivers.
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #42 on: January 04, 2013, 05:25:41 am »
I don't have any installed copies of Windows on any of my machines at the moment, personally. I haven't really found any use for it either, since I don't game or anything (when I feel like it, I just start up PlayOnLinux).
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #43 on: January 04, 2013, 03:18:02 pm »
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Yeah me to.

Yesterday I switched to systemd, finally.
Mostly because I have a solid internet connection since couple of days.

Still got some errors in my bootlog but Ill work on that.

This was so smooth, I never found archlinux to be difficult.
Its the best documented distro ive seen so far.
(maybe gentoo)
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Re: Arch Linux
« Reply #44 on: January 05, 2013, 01:24:15 am »
Quote from: proxx on January 04, 2013, 03:18:02 pm

Yesterday I switched to systemd, finally.

Yikes! A little late to the party are we? Yeah I had one [ FAIL ] messages but they were easily fixed.
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