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On 30 August 2013 09:36, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I hate almost everything about Arch: pacman sucks, the AUR repository > system sucks, the forums suck. The only good thing I have to say about pacman is sane compared to Debian's dpkg. AUR is really nice. Something I fealt that was missing from Debian. A sane way to get contributed packaging. PKGBUILD is so much nicer that the myriad of Debian cruft. Forums do suck. I don't use them. I wish there was a mailing list, but it would probably degenerate to debian-user levels of usefulness. If I want help, I use the IRC channel. You must admit https://wiki.archlinux.org/ is the best. > it is that it boots preposterously fast. I love the way that they > randomly deprecate stuff (ifconfig > ip) and then just casually post in > their stupid website "announcements" section - "yeah, hey ho, we've > probably just broken all your scripts LOL". I love the way they've only > just got their heads around package signing, and it's still not I don't care for package signing http://natalian.org/archives/2012/01/18/Archlinux_Pacman_GPG/ > mandatory (morons). My non-testing, i.e., allegedly "stable" Arch VM > overwrote it's own grub2 configs again today, resulting in me having to > boot it from the prompt and fix it manually. Don't use grub2. Use syslinux. Reject bloatware. > Any Arch users (Kai is a fan I think) want to defend their distro of > choice? Convince me I'm wrong please, because I'd love to put a bullet > in it. Don't even get me started on yaourt. Archlinux caters to the clueful. :-) Use `cower` not yaourt. I love Archlinux. Now running it on sg.webconverger.com, a non-critical server. http://webconverger.org/servers/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq