I just did the first half of an Arch install last night. Aside from a derp where i typeo'd the main volume mount and had to restart and remount it it went very smoothly on an Alienware 15R4 with i9 and 1080. I still need to finish with installing WLAN and the rest. On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:15 PM Kevin Fries wrote: > My main working / development laptop is a HP Pavilion with an I5 that I > got cheap at CostCo. Windows has been banished from the hard drive, Arch > Linux has been installed in its place, and I have had Zero issues with my > system. > > Love Arch, changed over from Ubuntu several years ago and my constant > search for the next Linux Distro was over. Since converting to Arch, my > system has been the most stable it's ever been. > > Kevin > > Sent from BlueMail > On Mar 4, 2019, at 9:55 PM, "Herminio Hernandez Jr. " < > herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For me Ubuntu keep breaking my audio output after just about every kernel >> upgrade. Moved back to Antergos. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Mar 4, 2019, at 9:49 PM, Stephen Partington >> wrote: >> >> Interesting on both issues. I am assuming you use UEFI and secureboot? >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 9:19 PM Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> The ubuntu issue making me switch with vitriol is somewhat different. I >>> simply can't switch to another DE now under ubuntu, and I hate what ubuntu >>> did to gnome3. Any other DE but ubuntu's simply crashes and dumps me back >>> to login. No idea why, and oddly I can't find much about it from others. >>> It was merely impetus to evacuate ubuntu further, but like crack I can't >>> seem to break free. >>> >>> I ran 16.04 before on my xps15. Old kernels worked ok with bumblebee, >>> but sucked at everything else, including my dell thunderbolt/usb3 dock. >>> I'd get random network timeouts, the usb bus would just sorta die >>> randomly. Lovely feature, really. >>> >>> Upgrading it fixed TB3, but fubar'd bumblebee/gpu interaction, and >>> powertop just sorta said I was causing planetary doom with consumption all >>> the time. It worked, but used power like crazy. I'd be lucky to get an >>> hour of batter life, mostly due to the stupid intel vs. nvidia vs. >>> bumblebee issues on it. Stable network and function vs. heat - I'll take >>> it. I was hoping moving to arch they might have fixed some of this >>> stupidity ubuntu could obviously never figure out. >>> >>> Why do I hate 18.04? Other than above gpu issues, I upgrade to find my >>> right click on the touchpad not working, a distinct lack of a minimize >>> button on my windows, and various things that simply didn't work out of box >>> I needed to find workarounds for. Upgrading out of sheer morbid curiosity >>> to 18.10 didn't fix anything, and in fact made most worse. I just hate >>> ubuntu now, and would really like to never deal with it again. >>> >>> I need to make a decent arch linux vm image I can clone and reuse, as >>> ubuntu is even more annoying with failed upgrades as a server. I really >>> hate having to rebuild everything every few years, but it does keep me in >>> practice. >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:00 PM Stephen Partington >>> wrote: >>> >>>> To follow up Mike's Conversation earlier about arch on a laptop I am >>>> actually curious about the issue you had. >>>> >>>> I have had really good success with arch on laptops lately. And with >>>> the release of Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu has been really amenable. >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen