On 3/27/2013 1:41 PM, John D Jones III wrote: > Just gonna throw this out there, but Arch Linux, a very minimalist > default install, coupled with the LXDE desktop would perform EXTREMELY > well. and with pacman/yaourt you can easily install anything you need. > No fluff, no bloat, you get what you install and nothing else. > AwesomeWM is pretty popular with alot of the Arch Linux users too, but > tiling windows are my bag. The community is very large and it's wiki > rivals, if not bests Gentoo's in completeness. And, lastly Arch is > cutting edge, so there's no need to wait 917 years for that one off > Wireless driver to get into the repos, but unlike a lot of 'cutting > edge' distros, Arch is brutally stable.
As a die hard user of Arch Linux for many years, I would argue that Arch is just "brutal" period. I recently had to reinstall an arch system and the fact that they dumped the AIF and now have a generic bootstrap script to hammer the installation onto the hard drive made me realize that Arch has lost its way. As far as I know, there is still no installation system for Arch. So you have to print out the step by step instructions and pound it on there. Which is what I did, but I have found it to not be as stable as it used to be. After many many years of Arch use I dropped it. I grew tired of the switch over to systemd and all the breakage during that. I believe the last few years would have seen a LOT of linux growth in the desktop market, but the distros desire to adopt the next coolest thing (systemd, which I absolutely hate) has made the last couple rounds of releases seem flaky. To the point I actually *left* linux altogether and moved to Windows 7 for stability! Believe it or not. I am dual-booting Kubuntu and Windows 7 now because I'm trying to move my development back into Linux but all the problems I've had the last 2 years with systemd upgrades and what not, Windows 7 has rocked the whole way through... I don't care for Arch linux much anymore. Nathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
