Hello everyone. Today (or actually yesterday), I wiped my system free of Arch Linux and installed Linux Lite 2.6 64-bit. My main reason for switching is because Arch has a rather poor community for support, particularly the behavior portrayed in the #archlinux IRC channel on freenode. Yes, the Wiki is one of the best out there, but I always felt I was "on my own" on many issues I had with it. I never joined the Arch fourms since I probably would be told to "read the Wiki", so I didn't bother . It also had awful support for my WiFi card (a Broadcom BCM4313, go figure). Besides, it came hard to maintain after some time after I realized that I no longer use my main laptop as much as I used to anymore since I acquired a smartphone. The updates were bleeding edge, sure, but there was always something I had to fix, and the package cache would quickly pile up. My fear of packages breaking was another worry of mine, but it oddly never happened, at least, not severe cases anyway. That was surprising, because I had to run Arch for 3 months without updating, and when I did, I expected all hell to break loose. It didn't. I must be the luckiest Arch user yet (or now former-Arch user).
Not all can be said bad about Arch though. I learned alot about how Linux is run at the backend, how it handles data, how it handles packages, among other things. I started from scratch, and built my KDE desktop similar to Unity. Took me a good 3 months to get the bugs worked out and basic functions to be setup. It was a fun learning experience. It's one of the best ways of learning Linux in a relatively short amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Gentoo and Linux From Scratch, you'll have to wait DAYS for the kernel to compile, let alone your desktop environment.
I am happy to be back to the simple Ubuntu-based nature of Linux Lite. After using Ubuntu from April 2011 to Dec 2013, I became very familiar with Ubuntu, when I was running that waay back when, from the early Unity days to 12.04 LTS. Yeah, the PPAs will pile up I'm sure over time, lol. I gotta dust off my Ubuntu apt-get commands from the deep neurons in my brain, lol. Coming to Linux Lite now made me realize how much RAM I actually wasted just to run KDE lol. With KDE5 (or Plasma 5 as they call it now), the RAM usage is beyond ridiculous, using nearly 2GB from a cold boot. I feel rather badly on how I kinda stressed my system to run KDE, and how I did for a long time. It's awesome to be back on something simple and straightforward, on something that I can grab and go, like a quick snack at midnight.
It's great to be back... Hope to be more active around the forums also.
Kind Regards,
Theo T.
Not all can be said bad about Arch though. I learned alot about how Linux is run at the backend, how it handles data, how it handles packages, among other things. I started from scratch, and built my KDE desktop similar to Unity. Took me a good 3 months to get the bugs worked out and basic functions to be setup. It was a fun learning experience. It's one of the best ways of learning Linux in a relatively short amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Gentoo and Linux From Scratch, you'll have to wait DAYS for the kernel to compile, let alone your desktop environment.
I am happy to be back to the simple Ubuntu-based nature of Linux Lite. After using Ubuntu from April 2011 to Dec 2013, I became very familiar with Ubuntu, when I was running that waay back when, from the early Unity days to 12.04 LTS. Yeah, the PPAs will pile up I'm sure over time, lol. I gotta dust off my Ubuntu apt-get commands from the deep neurons in my brain, lol. Coming to Linux Lite now made me realize how much RAM I actually wasted just to run KDE lol. With KDE5 (or Plasma 5 as they call it now), the RAM usage is beyond ridiculous, using nearly 2GB from a cold boot. I feel rather badly on how I kinda stressed my system to run KDE, and how I did for a long time. It's awesome to be back on something simple and straightforward, on something that I can grab and go, like a quick snack at midnight.
It's great to be back... Hope to be more active around the forums also.
Kind Regards,
Theo T.
Theodore,
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HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11-e015dx (11-inch "Travelbook")
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HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11-e015dx (11-inch "Travelbook")
ASUS Republic Of Gamers G752VT-DH74 (17-inch Main) [6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GPU, 24GB RAM]
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