Comments on: Why is Arch Linux So Challenging and What are Its Pros & Cons?

By: AvengerAvalon

AvengerAvalon — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:25:49 +0000

chroot the best way to save your installatio. period

By: Cristiano Abreu

Cristiano Abreu — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 09:56:39 +0000

Superb distro. My favorite one now. Using it on a Beowulf cluster of a few Xeons to run Molecular Dynamics simulations. A top performer.

By: Jon Jadot

Jon Jadot — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:45:42 +0000

I’ve been using Arch for the last 6 years. I can see how the install could be daunting to a newcomer. I came from a strong Linux background and have even built my own LFS(Linux from Scratch) system. After the knowledge gained from LFS, arch was a breeze to setup and you simply can’t beat the wiki and aur.

By: Justin Chung

Justin Chung — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:16:38 +0000

In reply to RhetoricalOutsider.

Debtap cannot natively convert the .Deb into Arch’s .tar.gz package format natively on some occasions. You should compile the source which is not lways available and if you are new to it is not always simple.

By: Austin Napier

Austin Napier — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:50:14 +0000

I recently took the Arch plunge and it’s been awesome. I had to get the courage to take the academic dive and learn what I needed to learn during the installation and configuration, but the Wiki is so damn good it wasn’t that bad. And the end result was my taking control over my computing experience, truly realizing the virtues that drew me to Linux in the first place. It’s not perfect (Steam acts funny and I still haven’t gotten Discord to install) but it’s mine, and without putting in magnitudes more work than with Arch (i.e. building your own distro/OS), you can’t say that about any other operating system.

By: Andy Chow

Andy Chow — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:59:32 +0000

Arch is great. The main difficulties I’ve had (network related, graphic related) have forced me to learn how things actually work. In the end, I know how and why my system behaves. Going back to another distro, you feel like you have to open up every config files to see what’s what. With Arch, you’ll know, because you’re the one that configured everything. The wiki is very good, and it does lack some things, but compared to any other distro it’s very good. If you have any trouble, check out the IRC channel on freenode, the people are friendly. And if you screw up, you can always reboot the install disk, chroot into your install, and fix it that way.