On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 07:00, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If any of you have experience running both Debian and Arch would you > please provide a quick comparison of the two?
It's really going to depend on what you're looking for out of a distro and how familiar or willing you are with working on the command line. The ArchWiki has a dedicated page comparing itself to other distros: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions ...and a google search on debian vs arch returns more than you could possibly read on their forums: https://www.google.com/search?q=+site:bbs.archlinux.org+debian+vs+arch If you go with Arch, their wiki is indispensable. Go to the wiki landing page wiki.archlinux.org and browse a couple of the getting started documents to get an idea what it'd take to get going. Next, do a search on some terms like "gnome" and "suspend" to get a better idea of what their documentation is like and whether it's your style (the wiki is its documentation). Arch makes very few assumptions about what you want and often lists multiple tools to do the job (i.e. doesn't assume you want to use NetworkManager). This is either great or a nightmare depending on your personality. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
