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Once ago, I spent a few hours during the night installing Arch, painfully managed to set most of stuff working and then... formatted it the hell out. Just as yo
by zalew 15y ago
Once ago, I spent a few hours during the night installing Arch, painfully managed to set most of stuff working and then... formatted it the hell out. Just as you say, my computer and my OS are my tools too, and tools only. I need to get my shit done, not spend all days long quircking every basic detail just to make it work. Even if my disk crashes I can set up a fully configured and working Debian with all most needed software, repos downloaded and ready to do real work in one hour flat. And if I wanted real challenge and had way too much free time, I'd probably try LFS. Or shoot myself in the foot.
If you don't like the way Ubuntu went, go with Debian (sid if you like the warm feeling of having the newest stuff).
- anon_d 15y agoEven if my disk crashes I can set up a fully configured and working Debian with all most needed software, repos downloaded and ready to do real work in one hour flat. I can do this with Arch Linux. I can't imagine what you could've had so much trouble with.
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- zalew 15y agoYou're trying to say Arch doesn't take more work to get up and running? Even OP says otherwise, so please...
- mcrittenden 15y agoOP here. That 2 hour estimate is for people who have never done an Arch install. I think 1 hour is reasonable for someone who's done it a few times to go from nothing to a fully working system. That said, I won't argue that it's still a good bit more work than setting up other distros.