Topic split. Arch on laptops.

[Stephen Partington]

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 <kevin at fries-biro.com> 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
>
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> On Mar 4, 2019, at 9:55 PM, "Herminio Hernandez Jr. " <
> herminio.hernandezjr at 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting on both issues. I am assuming you use UEFI and secureboot?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 9:19 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>>> 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.
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Stephen
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