Yesterday I shared here on the blog a simple guide on how to install Arco Linux on our computers. This is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, but that has editions with different desktop environments and that unlike Arch Linux, Arco Linux has a graphical installation method supported with the installation assistant "Squids".
In this way those who intend to test Arch Linux, but have heard or seen its installation method which is through a command line, they will be able to have Arch Linux on their computers without being afraid of risking information of your computers or simply not being able to install the system.
Why Arco Linux and not Arch Linux or some other derivative?
In the first instance, the reason why I decided to install Arco Linux and not Arch Linux or some other derivative it is because of the installation time required by Arch Linux that you dedicate and especially for the customization of your system.
Besides that at that time had a Windows 10 installation and it required occupying my computer. But because of a mistake of mine while maintaining my tidyr my HDD crashed and resulted in a post problem in which Windows tended to freeze a few minutes after it started and I had already reinstalled the system about 3 times.
I had another partition with Ubuntu 18.04 and with Linux I had no problem My album works well to date, (being frank I don't know why).
As for Arch Linux installation the first time you do it, it can take hours, but subsequent installations can be reduced to less than 1 hour (this depends largely on your internet connection).
After the Arch Linux installation, the moment of truth comes since there if you it's time to invest a little more time to the installation of the graphical server and the environment, plus, the customization of your system.
This is why I completely discard Arch Linux installation. The other options did not convince me because Manjaro at that time still had problems that they could not solve and as for Antergos, most of you will know that he died.
On the other hand, as for choosing another Linux distribution, within my needs were.
- A system that does not require updates, that is, Rolling-Release model
- That you have a large number of applications in your repos and minimize the use of external resources.
- Quick installation, good-looking and not unnecessarily consuming so many resources.
- In case the system breaks, have the facility to be able to fix the problem without compromising data or in the worst case the system.
- That avoids me having problems with the dependencies between the different applications.
And that is why based on points 4 and 5 a derivative of Arch Linux was my choice.
Moving to Windows to Linux migration
After the installation the test would come, as I needed to work with the computerr because it required various activities (nothing special), where most could classify them as office activities.
The first case is working with an office suite, where to date Libreoffice has covered my needs, among the works that I had to do in a group with classmates and that ended with complementing them with the online edition of Microsoft Office where we could work in real time on the documents.
Regarding printers, the configuration it was quite fast and did not require any additional downloads. Well with CUPS the process does not take more than 3 minutes and to share with other teams simply occupy the google cloud print service.
On the part of image editing it didn't require the big deal, I used to work with Photoshop. But in Linux I already knew for a long time Chalk and that from my perspective is a very good alternative in terms of functionality if we compare it with Photoshop CS3.
As to access to the web, no problem because we have different options, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. And for the part of accessibility, there are not many complications because Flash is practically dead (the site that requires it is rare) and java because you install it without problems.
For the question of leisure, music playback, in my case Spotify you can install it by several methods, my choice "snap". For games Steam already has Proton so the titles for Windows I run without problems on the system. Besides that compatibility with Xbox controls I have had no problem Since for the Xbox One I have a Bluetooth USB 4.0, for the 360 I have the receiver and I also have a USB control.
Video drivers, for my case Nvidia, install them in a matter of 1 minute from the Arch Linux repositories.
From there on out Wine has fixed those gaps I've had, even for leisure as I usually play Magic you must from time to time on my computer.
While for the reproduction of local content I have used Clementine for music as I usually control it from my phone with its remote control app. For videos with VLC media player.
Finally to be able to share files between teams, I have server of a cloud service, pcloud, With which the files that I need to share with other computers I simply place them inside the folder that is integrated into the system as if it were another partition on the computer.
As for the problems that have come to me, so far they have only been the aftermath of that disk crash where the graphic environment or the file system detects it as corrupt.
The solution. I just had to run a file system and system block check.
Isn't it supposed that the purpose of using a Rolling-Release distro is just to have to update the system? without doing reinstalls? or arch is not updated?
Maybe I did not know how to express myself, but basically the Rolling-Release only receives updates, not the system completely as it is for example Ubuntu.
Arco Linux, Anarchy Lunux, Endeavor OS… The same dog with a different collar. How archlinuxers like fragmentation. What a waste of resources. The most ironic thing is that later they will proclaim the aphorism DRY (don't repeat yourself)
Well, linux in general suffers from fragmentation, the same thing happens with Debian, RHEL, Fedora and Ubuntu because… In the end, the choice of the distro ends up being which one meets the user's needs.
In addition to the fact that Arch Linux used it a few years ago because the versions of the Xorg at that time were not compatible with my graphics card, which was an ATI HD 4 ... At that time the only version that maintained the support was Xorg 1.15 and the one in progress was 1.17.
Now with an Nvdia card I have not had problems with the Xorg versions, therefore I have not had the need to use pure Arch. And then if there are options that save you time why not use them.
When are they going to call things by their name and stop saying silly things? It is not "fragmentation", it is variety of choice, an immediate consequence of the versatility of Linux. If an option has no users, poof! it just goes away with time. And if it lasts, it is because there are people who use it and prefer it.
What's this "pooling" nonsense? Than? Didn't they learn anything from Micro $ oft? It has more resources than all the Linux variants put together, and you just have to look at the "quality" of its OS. They live just fixing what they themselves break with their rotten and forced updates.
On the other hand, there are hundreds of Linux variants. And the people who make them, compared to M $, are making them virtually "out of nowhere"! THAT is taking advantage of resources. But here we have "skulls" that repeat like parrots that these people do not know how to "manage" resources, they waste them. Why? Because they make a linux variant that is not the one that these "opinionologists" use. "Then" is a "goodbye."
As I said at the beginning, if you are using any Linux, have the decency to stop talking nonsense and call things by your name. Or if you want to keep saying them, use Wind * ws. Because using linux and making such criticisms of other variants is hypocritical and parasite.
Greetings to all :)
There is no variety in those distros. They are practically clones that only manage to bundle users, fragment developments and divide the community for no objective reason.
the "quality" of windows 10 outperforms an amateur distro derived from Arch or Debian in almost every way.
In the end, the user of Salient, Arco, Anarchy, or Endeavor, sooner or later ends up with a "weird Arch", all for vagueness. It takes 20 min to install Arch, and squid, not worth it, except battered on Sunday.
half of those here should skip sub-mod-forked-altdisters and spend that time reading manuals and wikis. the other half should not be here, and with the third half that we have left over: go to win. osX is another squid today, at the price of an octopus,
I use Manjato and currently I do not have a single problem, in the article they do not mention anything that does not have Manjaro.
Nothing new
Those devs should spend their time better instead of just wanting to own their own distro.
By the way the name is ugly and your website is horrible. I'm even scared to download it hahaha
I agree, you have nothing to ask Manjaro, but as I mentioned at that time, Manjaro had some problems that it had not solved, I do not remember which ones, but I do not forget your message in the header of your forum.
As for your site, it does require a touch up. Personally, I really like the system in terms of appearance, applications and settings.
Mm, I have been using Manjaro for a long time, I installed the Deepin mode and it is wonderful, for what I use it.
But I had trouble installing it on another laptop that I finally put Linux Mint on…. I'll try to put the Bow on that one: D
I know it has nothing to do with the blog thread, but I wanted to comment that I had an analogous problem with windows XP, it took two years to solve it and I tried an innumerable number of distros, I changed the hard disk but the problem persisted, until I changed sata cables (which are very cheap) and go three years without problems.
Thank you Xose for sharing your experience with Iberdrola. Do not forget that the yellow-green cable is actually a taekwondo belt, but you should be much more careful with the blue, and I am not saying anything about the brown anymore ...
all the best