On 21 March 2012 20:06, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM, John Carter <[email protected]> > wrote: >> So having gone around and around and around the Ubuntu Oneiric / Precise / >> ... install, and grub grubbing and (quite promising boot-repair) root.... >> >> I have got nowhere due that UEFI curse word. >> >> Arch Linux installed as slick as a greased suppository. >> >> So I'm going with that for now. > > Good choice IMHO > > Funny how power user howto searches seem to so often come up with > archlinux wiki/forums answers on google lately. > > In other words they are a distro that still allows some low level > control, which is a real bonus. Plus rolling release is what you > really want- seems to me you just get ubuntu working how you want and > there's another damned release, and the upgrade is never foolproof.
Until recently that was gentoo. But I guess their wiki going under last year or the year before that and making everyone practically start over made a huge negative impact in this regard. But rolling-release++, arch is pretty much gentoo's attitude + the practicality of binary installs by default. This nonsense of "release parties" and such sillyness that debian/ubuntu/fedora etc seem to enage in I feel is just blead-over from the windows mob mentality. I've seriously seen a lot of people do fresh installs every time a release came out .... like people do with windows. *facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm* *facepalm* Though on ubuntu there was at least one update where their "dist-upgrade" failed that hard that 50% of users had to do that ( apparently [citation needed] ) /me returns to lurking moar -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
