I wish I would have learned about Arch Linux .....

[Michael]

hmmmm.... I just found out why boot is so quick with arch (or at least MY
arch). It is because I only have internet over the wire. It does not have
wifi enabled and therefore does not have to wait to connect. I learned this
today as I sit in my Wyndham researching getting wifi going so I can bring
 the computer with me to subsequent visits and then have two computers
(laptop and NUC).

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:14 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hmmmm.... I just found out why boot is so quick with arch (or at least MY
> arch). It is
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 1:53 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I rather like using Arch linux with rolling updates, and have now about 5
>> years.  It's not always without its pain, but mostly is great to use daily.
>>
>> Usually after using it for a while, installing a lot of various software
>> outside base repos, and then updating for me has been problematic.  Usually
>> dependency recursion issues, often because community packages that are not
>> well maintained, so hardly core arch's fault, but seems could be better.
>> My desktop became a brick after several years with some still unknown
>> updates, but my laptop has been great, luckily as it was my fallback, and
>> now my everything box I work on.  This compared to every 6mo-1yr with a
>> dist release for ubuntu/deb/etc that I usually plan a long weekend or week
>> off to update, as I know it will break things, usually badly.  Arch hasn't
>> been too bad comparatively to the past 10 years of ubuntu.
>>
>> When it works normally, it's great, and mostly updates with a clean os
>> are simple if I do them often enough.  Most of the folks chatting with in
>> the arch irc seem to update weekly with no issue, whereas I update about
>> every 6 months, which they scold me for anyways.  I should if for nothing
>> else security, but Dr's make the worst patients, and in some cases imho I
>> have good reasons to not reboot commonly how I work.
>>
>> The install too is a bit complex if you're not totally comfortable in
>> linux, but a basic install is quite easy following basic directions, or you
>> can just use manjaro arch distro with a full desktop installer.  I still
>> like learning, so I don't mind this, and arch taught me a lot more still.
>> I get jiggy doing full-disk encryption and custom disk setups, which even
>> for me took a while to figure out, but once installed and booting, is easy
>> enough to maintain outside the above comments on updates.
>>
>> Arch also tends to get you the latest kernel (drivers/firmware) and
>> desktop features, which is nice vs. ubuntu being always quite dated.  When
>> I find even new software out there, it's rare I don't find a community
>> build of it available as an easy install for arch already, which is really
>> nice, even eww things like microsoft teams.
>>
>> I too am glad to help others that want to try arch on the list here or in
>> plug irc.  The arch channel irc folks can be a bit prickly, I'd recommend
>> keeping basic questions more local.  :)
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:40 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I wish I would have learned about Arch Linux when I first got into
>>> Linux. My current computer took 30 seconds to load from when it first
>>> starts loading to GUI while arch takes about 22 seconds. Further I would
>>> have learned about compiling the applications. It will be difficult now
>>> because I am over 50 and my mind was not used much in my 40's. I say this
>>> to all you young bucks out there as a warning and an encouragement to try
>>> arch (and you old bucks who haven't wasted your mind). If you don't want to
>>> compile stuff with arch download the ISO.... start it.... and at the
>>> command prompt type archinstall. Another good learning tool is Linux From
>>> Scratch. That one you compile EVERYTHING from source. The real learning for
>>> LFS starts after you compile everything and start configuring stuff
>>> (chapter 9).
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