On 10/26/05, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm new to Arch Linux and to the list. I wanted to introduce myself.
Welcome. > After leaving Slack I spent quite a bit of time with Fedora and also tried > Suse. I was disappointed in that it appears that these distros seek to > compete against MS Windows. Their install procedures seem to parallel those > of MS Windows in that it's pretty much a > start-the-process-and-then-pray-a-lot thing. If anything > ever has to be fixed, you're in a world of hurt. Moving from FC2 to FC3 to > FC4 it seemed to me that the distros were getting progressively more bloated > and that translates to 'worse' in my book. By the time I had spent some > time with FC4, I was seriously thinking that maybe I'd be better off trying > to fix Slack. Then the thought occurred to me that I probably wasn't alone > in my thinking and that perhaps a distro had been put together that would > satisfy my needs. So, I started poking around the Net and that's how I > happened to find Arch Linux. Admittedly, I have not yet spent a great deal > of time with Arch Linux. However, so far I really like everything I see. > I've got a feeling that I'm going to move to Arch Linux and never look back. > So, you'll probably be hearing from me on the list and I may ask a few dumb > questions in the beginning. Take it esay on me! :) At this point all I can > say is that it looks great and keep up the good work! Quite an intro. It sounds like Arch is what you're looking for. Someone's old addage was that Arch ends disto hopping. I couldn't agree more. Arch, more than any other distro I've seen, gets those reports of "so I tried X,Y,Z, and even Q, but when I came across Arch, I was set!". I remember the first time trying Arch, my reaction was "Holy crap!" - not because of speed or anything like that... it was just that everything was there, everything was in place. It just made sense. Welcome to Arch, yet again. If you have any issues, don't hesitate to ask, though you do tend to get faster responses on the forums (bbs.archlinux.org) or in irc (#archlinux) - phrakture _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
