No real reason for posting, but I am now posting from my first Arch install...
I've been a Ubuntu user for several years now - i think my first version was 6.10. Since then i have moved from dual booting because i found Windows easier to use for certain things, to dual booting because Windows is just good for games and certain pieces of proprietary software, and using Linux almost exclusively.
I've used Linux for everything for several years now, and have setup CentOS servers at work and at home for centralised login, hot-desking, file serving, databases, etc. But on my desktop and my laptop i have always stuck with Ubuntu. Tried out Fedora a couple of times, but didn't find anything there to draw me from Ubuntu. Then just recently something broke... I could probably fix it just fine by updating to 11.04 from 10.10, but tbh i just wanted to learn more.
I had a quick bash at Gentoo in Virtualbox but figured an intermediary step would be good. Gentoo was just taking too much time, which is a rare commodity for me atm, so i thought i'd try Arch - the install on Virtualbox broke, but i was confident it was just a virtualisation issue and went ahead and wiped my laptop hard drive for a fresh install. Couple of attempts later, and it's all gravy! Got Gnome3 running and a basic install underneath. Just need to get the wireless to work, which shouldn't be too hard, and i'll be happy.
I'm liking the 'get your hands dirty' approach of Arch, it suits me - i always want to know why and how!
Hopefully this will be the start of my real Linux education, since i always felt Ubuntu was preventing me from really learning (not to take anything away from Ubuntu - it has done a lot for Linux imo and made it far more accessible).
Well, that's it, just wanted to share my happy moment of posting from a GUI in Arch
I've been a Ubuntu user for several years now - i think my first version was 6.10. Since then i have moved from dual booting because i found Windows easier to use for certain things, to dual booting because Windows is just good for games and certain pieces of proprietary software, and using Linux almost exclusively.
I've used Linux for everything for several years now, and have setup CentOS servers at work and at home for centralised login, hot-desking, file serving, databases, etc. But on my desktop and my laptop i have always stuck with Ubuntu. Tried out Fedora a couple of times, but didn't find anything there to draw me from Ubuntu. Then just recently something broke... I could probably fix it just fine by updating to 11.04 from 10.10, but tbh i just wanted to learn more.
I had a quick bash at Gentoo in Virtualbox but figured an intermediary step would be good. Gentoo was just taking too much time, which is a rare commodity for me atm, so i thought i'd try Arch - the install on Virtualbox broke, but i was confident it was just a virtualisation issue and went ahead and wiped my laptop hard drive for a fresh install. Couple of attempts later, and it's all gravy! Got Gnome3 running and a basic install underneath. Just need to get the wireless to work, which shouldn't be too hard, and i'll be happy.
I'm liking the 'get your hands dirty' approach of Arch, it suits me - i always want to know why and how!
Hopefully this will be the start of my real Linux education, since i always felt Ubuntu was preventing me from really learning (not to take anything away from Ubuntu - it has done a lot for Linux imo and made it far more accessible).Well, that's it, just wanted to share my happy moment of posting from a GUI in Arch
Arch is definitely awesome, I've been using it for years as a main desktop OS.