[wplug] Any Archers in the house?

[Justin Smith]

I've been using openSUSE on all of my machines, including my server, for 
the past several months, but it's been getting very...wonky...lately. Lots of 
random freeze-ups and other strange behavior. I decided to switch to 
something more granular so I can be sure of exactly what is on my system. 

I'm not insane, so I ruled out Gentoo. That left Arch, which I had tried a 
couple of years ago and then promptly uninstalled because I thought it 
was too much work. I don't like Debian-based distros and nothing RPM-
based appealed to me, so without any other options, I said a few prayers 
and gave Arch a go on my main machine.

All I have to say is...WOW! I can't believe how much better it is. Everything 
runs faster because I only install exactly what I need - and if it isn't in the 
official repos, I guarantee it's in the AUR. Editing text files is easier than 
wading through menus. The Arch wiki is perhaps the best Linux resource 
I've ever found. Pacman is a snap.

It really is simple - and a great learning experience.

Do any of you use Arch? I can't be the only one who enjoys using it.

--
*Justin S. Smith*
Vice chair/secretary, WPLUG Board of Directors
http://www.wplug.org[1] 

/"If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better 
than you do."/
-Linus Torvalds

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