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Makes me think about the Arch Linux install I got half way through last night. As I started to fall asleep from the sheer boredom induced by copying and pasting

Makes me think about the Arch Linux install I got half way through last night. As I started to fall asleep from the sheer boredom induced by copying and pasting commands, I had realized that I had no fucking idea why I was doing it. A fresher kernel wasn't worth it. I hit reset and went Ubuntu 12.10 instead.

pmr_ 14y ago
And this is probably for the best, because you probably aren't the right kind of user for the distribution and community. If you take a look at [1], you will see that the wiki provides a lot more than just commands to type in, but also a rationale and explanation what each component does. Usually there are also links for further reading that should help your understanding of the topic.
- virtualwhys 14y ago
  Fedora user...if Arch's forums are any indication of the quality of the distro, then Arch is excellent. Was looking for some help getting started with Awesome WM as well as sorting out an issue with crap Broadcom wireless card -- both searches led me to Arch, and it was there that I found informative, detailed threads that led to the solutions.
  - ibrahima 14y ago
    As an Awesome user on Ubuntu, I often end up referring to the ArchWiki. Also for a lot of driver issues. Their wiki is really excellent, I guess because when people are dealing with a lot of raw, newer packages they tend to work out the finer details of issues that people later on benefit from.
lelandbatey 14y ago
What bothered me the most was that I did install Arch over the summer. It was awesome! It wasn't to hard, but more technical than most "consumer" installs. This was due to the EXCELLENT bit software called that AIF (Arch Install Framework) that offered a ton of usability improvements while maintaining the customizability that many crave. So, I started recommending it to a bunch of people I know as an excellent development environment. What was odd was that they all reported back that it was incredibly hard to do and manage. It turns out that just days after I had done this install, Arch completely removed AIF in favor of a bunch of smaller, much less helpful scripts specifically so that it wouldn't be as simple (and thus less flexible) to install. I was, and still am, totally floored by this. I switched to using Ubuntu Server with my own choice of UI layer (Xmonad for life!) after dealing with that.

pmr_ 14y ago

And this is probably for the best, because you probably aren't the right kind of user for the distribution and community. If you take a look at [1], you will see that the wiki provides a lot more than just commands to type in, but also a rationale and explanation what each component does. Usually there are also links for further reading that should help your understanding of the topic.

virtualwhys 14y ago
Fedora user...if Arch's forums are any indication of the quality of the distro, then Arch is excellent. Was looking for some help getting started with Awesome WM as well as sorting out an issue with crap Broadcom wireless card -- both searches led me to Arch, and it was there that I found informative, detailed threads that led to the solutions.
- ibrahima 14y ago
  As an Awesome user on Ubuntu, I often end up referring to the ArchWiki. Also for a lot of driver issues. Their wiki is really excellent, I guess because when people are dealing with a lot of raw, newer packages they tend to work out the finer details of issues that people later on benefit from.

lelandbatey 14y ago

What bothered me the most was that I did install Arch over the summer. It was awesome! It wasn't to hard, but more technical than most "consumer" installs. This was due to the EXCELLENT bit software called that AIF (Arch Install Framework) that offered a ton of usability improvements while maintaining the customizability that many crave. So, I started recommending it to a bunch of people I know as an excellent development environment. What was odd was that they all reported back that it was incredibly hard to do and manage. It turns out that just days after I had done this install, Arch completely removed AIF in favor of a bunch of smaller, much less helpful scripts specifically so that it wouldn't be as simple (and thus less flexible) to install. I was, and still am, totally floored by this. I switched to using Ubuntu Server with my own choice of UI layer (Xmonad for life!) after dealing with that.