Comments on: Review: Arch Linux 0.7.2

By: Moonshine Fox

Moonshine Fox — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:48:32 +0000

Just recently migrated from ubuntu to Arch, and it’s in the research state so far. Looking up what window manager I wanna use and all that jazz. It’s an interesting distro and the freedom to do what I want and get rid of bloat is very appealing. I’ve just recently started to become annoyed but Ubuntus bad performance. Might just be my installation, or my hardware, but Ubuntu feels slow to me now. Almost as slow as my XP. (I triple boot btw. XP, Ubuntu, Arch).

In my opinion Ubuntu has only gone towards more bloated and worse performance with every release, and I’ve been around since Feisty (7.04).

Arch is probably where I will stay for while, although it’s way too early to say for sure.

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By: Kazuya

Kazuya — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:54:40 +0000

I dual boot arch, vector linux. Both excellent. I love arch currently, but also love many other distros from Mepis, Ubuntu/Linux Mint, Sabayon, Pclinuxos, Vector linux, Zenwalk.

Currently, arch is my favorite distro {for one week going.} – maybe a keeper.

By: Cesar

Cesar — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:35:48 +0000

I have a dual boot here: Ubuntu and Arch. Both are nice distros.

By: swamytk

swamytk — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:35:18 +0000

Thanks Simon for pointing out my fun fall. Let me correct the postings.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:26:53 +0000

1. Please tell me you did not fall for their joke:
http://archlinux.org/news/307/
This was a April Fool’s Day joke!

2. If you posted this on “Nov 12th, 2006″, you cannot update it “05-Apr-2006″. (I suppose you meant 2007 there).

By: Rüya Tabirleri

Rüya Tabirleri — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:30:49 +0000

Arch is a great distro …

By: Dohn Joe

Dohn Joe — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:02:31 +0000

I think arch is a great distro too. I simply love pacman. Although, I find the package quality to often be quite poor. Now I have left arch for Frugalware, another distro that uses pacman (although they have changed it a bit). It’s a bit more thought out.

If only arch could solve the package issue, so that you don’t risk to destroy your system on each pacman -Suy I think it stands a chance against frugal, but as it is now, I see no reason to go back. I can also advise you to check out http://www.frugalware.org...

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:20:48 +0000

Arch Linux is the only distribution that could get my wireless card to work. Gentoo and Ubuntu couldn’t anything. Therefore, since wireless is such a big deal nowadays, Arch is the best.

By: waddy

waddy — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:37:58 +0000

Arch is the best distro I’ve ever used!

Ummm, it’s also the only distro I’ve ever used, so my opinion may not be as valid as others.