Subj : Re: DOSEmu and Mystic BBS
To : ORBITMAN
From : ACCESS DENIED
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm
Hello Orbitman,
On 22 Aug 14 17:10, Orbitman wrote to Access Denied:
Or> I may have to give Arch a shot! That sounds easy to deal with. I'm
Or> used to Ubuntu as that has pretty much been all I have used. I have
Or> messed around with Fedora (2, 3 and 4) as well as Mandrake (Mandriva
Or> now) and Suse.
All full blown desktop environment systems.
Or> I even tried to build a Gentoo system several years ago and got it
Or> going...but never finished it.
Arch is basically like Gentoo, except you don't have to compile your entire
system (which on and off with having shit to do and work and all that can end
up being a few days). You basically install the same way you would with Gentoo
(yet still no compiling).. You manually set your fstab, mirrorlists, and a few
other things.. then you're left with a base/core system with a package manager
and a few other things like a kernel, compiler, libs to start with, etc.
After that, the world (or your OS) is yours. You install what you want, when
you want to. All binary packages so installation of anything is super fast.
Automatic kernel updates (again, no compiling) that only require a reboot to
boot into the new kernel)..
For one, I've always been one to build my system from the ground up (I was a
Gentoo fanboy for about a decade, and boy am I glad I found Arch.. lol). I
don't like installing stuff like Ubuntu, or SuSE, or Fedora, or any of those
that come with software that I probably don't want, already installed. So far
it has been the least stressful Linux OS I have ever used.
After the years of Gentoo, I got annoyed with compiling everything and things
taking hours when it could take seconds. It wasn't worth my time especially
when I wasn't changing the ebuilds or compile options to make things system
specific (like Gentoo promotes) anyways.
The last OS I used before Arch was Sabayon, which was Gentoo based, but had a
binary package manager. It was nice, but still came with an entire desktop
environment and their own installed programs on it that I didn't want in the
first place. I used it for about a year even, but eventually just decided to go
back to a console environment. The lack of interest in compiling brought me to
Archlinux. I'm not sorry I tried it. :)
