Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Queens, NYC, NY
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:02 am Post subject: Finally tried what may be my final distro
I have been looking all over the place for the past couple of years to find the Linux distro I can live with. I think I finally may have found it.
I have been reading about the LFS and Arch and Gentoo and Rock, etc for a while. I finally decided to install Arch and see how it worked out. I downloaded the CD and printed out the special set of install instructions put out by Don Beck of Raiden's Realm. It took me a little over an hour and almost everything worked out of the box. I checked on the Forum of Arch Linux and found how to fix the small niggles I had. Works just fine. Great performance increase over most of the others I have tried and it also has an x64 version. I am currently using Gnome as that is what was written up but I may try some other DE's as well.
I like the Forum as the people really seem to be helpful with no snark (or very little). Very pleased with what I am finding. This essentially leaves me with 3 to choose from as I see it now - Wolvix (x32 only but good performance and seems rock solid - the developers are wide open to the users on this one and you get good support), BlueWhite64 (x64 and otherwise ditto the pluses with Wolvix - I have yet to ask a question where I don't get the answer within a couple of hours) and Arch (more widely used than the other two, good performance, seems rock solid and good Forum - better doc than the other two and may in the long run be a better choice).
The thing I am seeing with all 3 of these distros and some of the others as well is that there are a lot of very young people working here and being very open on the forums and they seem knowledgeable and willing to help. I am pretty old and yet there is no snark about how I am over the hill, etc, which is one of the main reasons I got rid of one of the first distros I tried - I have never seen so many mean-spirited people on the forum anywhere else almost as bad as on some of the political websites I read and that is BAD. I see a great future with the young people on Linux. They seem a very open-minded, serious, smart, helpful bunch for the most part and his seems to be true world-wide. I have gotten help from Romanians, Norwegians, Scots, Germans, Dutch, Turks and freely given.
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