Distro Questions - Arch/Mepis

[tntcoder]

Hi,

I have been through a lot of distros and am looking for a new one, as none of the previous ones have been 'quite' right.

I really like Slackware, but its package management system sucks / is non existent. I am currently using KUbuntu, and really like apt-get/synaptic but i cant help but feel its unnecessarily bloated, and i don't like the customized KDE, same with OpenSUSE to some extent but maybe im just too picky

So onto the next one.

Is Arch linux worth a try? Does it have a decent package manager and use KDE by default, and is it nice and clean?

Ive also heard of Mepis but i don't know much about it?

Thanks for any advice

Jack

 

[fumbles]

I am starting to sound like a broken record.

Arch uses pacman as it's package manger and it rocks my socks. pacman -Syu that will update your entire system.

Arch doesn't have any desktop environment as default. You have to install that yourself. Although it is very simple to set up, which is just the stock standard KDE.
Arch shares similarities with Slackware. Same philosophy and what not.

Optimised for i686 so it runs faster then most other distros. Binary based, but with a handy source building system thing (ABS). It's is lightweight, you decided what gets put in and what doesn't. So it is tailored for your needs.

 

[tntcoder]

Excellent thanks, im sold