Anyone here use ArchLinux?

[lutzee]

I dabbled with Gentoo a little bit on a dedicated server. Scary stuff. Didn't have to do too much, since it was entirely commandline. Arch/Slackware are excellent middle grounds. 

 

Netctl works fine for me, except it didn't want to work well with the Netctl system tray indicator for Cinnamon. NetworkManager worked for that, and I think Netctl and NetworkManager cooperated with each other. -shrug- 

 

Linux From Scratch, perhaps?

When I have a spare machine and plenty of time (probably late next year) I will set up a linux from scratch system, its something I really want to do, in the mean time, im going to fill my time with reading these,

 

https://copy.com/OhkmlWjhjxMo

[rashdanml]

When I have a spare machine and plenty of time (probably late next year) I will set up a linux from scratch system, its something I really want to do, in the mean time, im going to fill my time with reading these,

https://copy.com/OhkmlWjhjxMo

Ooh. I've been looking for books with similar topics, thanks for posting. Going to look into buying them too.

[lutzee]

Ooh. I've been looking for books with similar topics, thanks for posting. Going to look into buying them too.

Don't have a heart attack at the price, and make sure you are sure you will understand the code, its MIX assembly

 

Meanwhile, fixed my cursor by changing the theme.. sigh

[rashdanml]

Don't have a heart attack at the price, and make sure you are sure you will understand the code, its MIX assembly

Meanwhile, fixed my cursor by changing the theme.. sigh

Cost isn't a problem I've spent well over $600 on my books with a wish list of $1000+ more

Noted

[alpenwasser]

Anyway, like Alpenwasser I use i3, love it and again also made very few changes to the config file. Only adding border profiles for apps and such, and a couple of keybindings (for i3lock, duplicating the current terminal session etc)

Oh yeah, forgot about i3lock (I have and use it, just didn't remember that you need

to manually bind a keycombo to it).

My current desktop setup, scrot doesn't capture the Xcursor though.

Nice! Also: Hurray for scrot!  

 

Linux From Scratch, perhaps?

 

It's been on my TODO list for years, but time and motivation were never concurrent

so far. :lol: 

When I have a spare machine and plenty of time (probably late next year) I will set up a linux from scratch system, its something I really want to do, in the mean time, im going to fill my time with reading these,

 

https://copy.com/OhkmlWjhjxMo

Aw dammit, now I want those books too. But they'll have to wait, not enough time.

[dhbiker]

i was an archer for quite a long time but devs were not serious anymore and package breakages were starting to happen

 

now i'm on gentoo again (note first ever distro was mandrake or mandriva and then gentoo). i don't hate on arch... it's pretty sweet distro quite customizable and quite "bleeding edge" how is the AUR now ? 

[lutzee]

Oh yeah, forgot about i3lock (I have and use it, just didn't remember that you need

to manually bind a keycombo to it).

Nice! Also: Hurray for scrot!  

 

 

It's been on my TODO list for years, but time and motivation were never concurrent

so far. :lol: 

Aw dammit, now I want those books too. But they'll have to wait, not enough time.

 

And turns out i will have to wait a little longer....

 

AMD drivers are fucking up again... lasted 8 days.. arch forums thread is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174897

Really pissing me off tbh, and i fear it may be a hardware issue that arch seems to run into the most, windows has on rare occasion had the graphics drivers crash, and no problems in mint..

[alpenwasser]

i was an archer for quite a long time but devs were not serious anymore and package breakages were starting to happen

 

now i'm on gentoo again (note first ever distro was mandrake or mandriva and then gentoo). i don't hate on arch... it's pretty sweet distro quite customizable and quite "bleeding edge" how is the AUR now ?

No distro is perfect, that's for sure. In the end it's not so much about which one

is objectively the best, but more about which one suits you most optimally, at least

IMHO. Personally I haven't suffered any package breakages in a very long time, but

then again that depends on which packages you have installed I suppose.

I also gave FreeBSD a try about a year ago, actually quite liked it, but the ports

system was a bit of a pita for a newcomer. Plus, to be perfectly honest, I have

become rather attached to the rolling release model of Arch, it has made me a bit

averse to operating systems which periodically require major upgrades.

I have for that reason been considering ArchBSD for a few months now, but it's still

a very new project, so I've been a bit hesitant. Might need to throw a VM on one

of my machines with it at some point.

 

Can't really say too much about the AUR, I only have a few small programs installed

from it, and nothing critical (par, fim, xzgv, sc and the Android dev bridge).

How is Gentoo these days? Curious since I might consider giving it a whirl at some

point.

And turns out i will have to wait a little longer....

 

AMD drivers are fucking up again... lasted 8 days.. arch forums thread is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174897

Really pissing me off tbh, and i fear it may be a hardware issue that arch seems to run into the most, windows has on rare occasion had the graphics drivers crash, and no problems in mint..

Ah yes, graphics drivers... the one thing where I got a bit of a headscratcher during

my installs is when installing those.

[lutzee]

No distro is perfect, that's for sure. In the end it's not so much about which one

is objectively the best, but more about which one suits you most optimally, at least

IMHO. Personally I haven't suffered any package breakages in a very long time, but

then again that depends on which packages you have installed I suppose.

I also gave FreeBSD a try about a year ago, actually quite liked it, but the ports

system was a bit of a pita for a newcomer. Plus, to be perfectly honest, I have

become rather attached to the rolling release model of Arch, it has made me a bit

averse to operating systems which periodically require major upgrades.

I have for that reason been considering ArchBSD for a few months now, but it's still

a very new project, so I've been a bit hesitant. Might need to throw a VM on one

of my machines with it at some point.

 

Can't really say too much about the AUR, I only have a few small programs installed

from it, and nothing critical (par, fim, xzgv, sc and the Android dev bridge).

How is Gentoo these days? Curious since I might consider giving it a whirl at some

point.

Ah yes, graphics drivers... the one thing where I got a bit of a headscratcher during

my installs is when installing those.

 

Pretty sure its my worst fear... hardware fault  

I have no other cards to test with, and I'd rather not spend the money on a new card..  

[dhbiker]

How is Gentoo these days? Curious since I might consider giving it a whirl at some

point.

 

compared to arch it's pain in the ass to someone who has dual core cpu, it needs quite a good machine to quickly compile stuff (if you don't want to wait the whole day for the install to complete)

 

other than that... stable for me. mostly the bugs are taken care of very quickly with new ebuilds (and this means recompiling)

it's also a good way to learn how linux works to almost every detail. 

 

i like it because you specify which features do you want compiled. i'm not saying it brings huge performance improvement but it's nice to see a clean process manager.

most of the issues you can come across are documented either on gentoo site/blog or being discussed in the forums 

 

IRC channel is nice too... when i was in arch's irc channel they mostly picked on the newbies. it's totally different in gentoo channel where everyone collaborates nicely and you mostly don't need to ask the same question gazillion times

 

i guess this is the community gentoo devs have hoped for

 

if you ever come into any problem on gentoo and you can't resolve it feel free to PM me. 

 

greetings from slovenia to all fellow linux users

[alpenwasser]

Pretty sure its my worst fear... hardware fault

 

Not just yours...

 

compared to arch it's pain in the ass to someone who has dual core cpu, it needs quite a good machine to quickly compile stuff (if you don't want to wait the whole day for the install to complete)

Hehe, I remember back in 2004-ish, start compiling, go to sleep, find out it failed

after one hour for some reason, try again next night, and eventually, after many, many

hours of compilation... hurray! :lol:

Luckily the machine I would be installing it on would have 12 cores/24 threads, so I'm

pretty sure compile times should be reasonable.

i like it because you specify which features do you want compiled. i'm not saying it brings huge performance improvement but it's nice to see a clean process manager.

most of the issues you can come across are documented either on gentoo site/blog or being discussed in the forums

 

IRC channel is nice too... when i was in arch's irc channel they mostly picked on the newbies. it's totally different in gentoo channel where everyone collaborates nicely and you mostly don't need to ask the same question gazillion times

 

i guess this is the community gentoo devs have hoped for

 

if you ever come into any problem on gentoo and you can't resolve it feel free to PM me. 

 

greetings from slovenia to all fellow linux users

Yeah, experienced Arch users can be a bit arrogant, that's true. I have noticed that

Gentoo's community has improved quite a bit in the last few years. The project seemed

to have taken a bit of a hit after their personnel troubles, but now it seems to be

chugging along quite nicely.

And thanks for the offer, I might just get back to you on that.

[Ethann_AKA_CPU1]

I want to run arch on my computer... but it's a mac

[alpenwasser]

I want to run arch on my computer... but it's a mac

I run Arch on my Macboook Pro actually. Works pretty well. Thunderbolt hotplugging doesn't

quite work, and when you use Thunderbold (say, the ethernet->Thunderbolt adapter), standby

and suspend mode usually break, but since I don't use that very often it's not too big of

a deal. The other thing which doesn't quite work is the SD card slot. Oh, and the webcam,

but I don't care about that. Battery life is 6-7.5 hours usually.

It's a 15" 2014 retina model.

EDIT: No idea what the story is on regular macs.

[ZerueLX11]

I want to run arch on my computer... but it's a mac

 

It's already Linux 

 

jk

 

 

 

 

 

I run arch on my Raspberry Pi, It was a pain to get on there.