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This is for me huge news... I think of Antergos very fondly. I donated when I first installed it and was constantly amazed by it. Showing Antergos off at work,
by gchamonlive 7y ago
This is for me huge news... I think of Antergos very fondly. I donated when I first installed it and was constantly amazed by it.
Showing Antergos off at work, people was also impressed and almost everyone on the team switched to Antergos from Ubuntu (and this is no small feat). It lowered the entry bar into arch without lowering quality and this is something that is really valuable. It made switching to an arguably a better distro for development (latest packages, the vast aur repository, incredible Arch wiki support...) time-effective: where before I couldn't imagine myself as SysOps recommending arch to the frontent designer, now I can just go "oh, try this, installation is almost as easy as Ubuntu".
I had a small share of grief with Antergos too. With my laptop I had to disable "nouveau" drivers so that I could boot to a stable installation environment using Nvidia 150M GPU and upgrading my home setup to Nvidia from a Radeon GPU killed my previous arch installation and now it won't boot from their live iso.
But what it enabled me to do at work, prompting this switch from ubuntu to arch, is something I can't measure in value. I would love to be able to maintain this project (is it open for public fork?), but I have neither time (maybe a workday a week) nor the preparation to do so, and the community would also have to create momentum in the direction of adopting this project...
Anyway this is sad, but in no way I could hang this over antergos team's heads. I can only be grateful and wish them good luck in their lives, they deserve all the internets they can get.