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Nice, but I wish they didn't deprecate Archlinux though :/

• wcchandler 12y ago
  Couldn't you do a bootstrapped install if you really wanted it? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_Linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_L...
  • sciencerobot 12y ago
    Someone wrote a script to do just that: https://github.com/gh2o/digitalocean-debian-to-arch https://github.com/gh2o/digitalocean-debian-to-arch
    • nly 12y ago
      Tried it, works really well.
  • neumino 12y ago
    Well, it's more of a pain to setup right. It doesn't take 10 seconds anymore. Then like all cloud services, things get bad when you can't properly boot or start the network services. I used to run Arch with a more recent kernel and that kind of happened after an upgrade. To be fair, I can understand why they don't want to support Arch as it's probably a bit of work, but they are also a cheap service, so some people (like me) like to have a little server running there just for personal stuff (IRC bouncer, ssh tunnel etc.). And in this case, you want something closer to your own system. They still provide a good service in my opinion as I still use them :)