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#31 simplezz

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 19:47

View Postsimrat, on 28 May 2012 - 19:38, said:

Sexy! Now i want to install arch, tired of ubuntu.
Thanks :)

Sure give it a go. I always like to experiment myself.


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Posted 28 May 2012 - 19:48

View Postbutilikethecookie, on 28 May 2012 - 19:45, said:

Pretty! Hats off to you for using Arch! I heard it was quite a hard OS to master!
Thanks. It's not really that hard once you get it all setup. In fact, upgrades are much easier with rolling-release distros.

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 21:53

View Postsimplezz, on 28 May 2012 - 19:30, said:

Arch | Gnome 3 | gnome-shell-theme-gnomarch Shell Theme


OMFG that's sexy i think its time to back up and try arch

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 22:00

View Postsimplezz, on 28 May 2012 - 19:48, said:

Thanks. It's not really that hard once you get it all setup. In fact, upgrades are much easier with rolling-release distros.
Agreed -- takes a bit more effort to get started, but it's well worth it, refreshing change from kitchen-sink distros. I prefer BSD over Linux myself, but this one is actually pretty decent to work with. And amen to rolling updates.. the six month roll of the dice is just irritating.

Just follow along their wiki, it'll walk you through it, just keep in mind it'll drop you at a bare nekkid console once it's done installing. There's also easy instructions for the various desktops if you're going that route. It's one of the better documented distros, and the forum is pretty helpful.

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 22:13

Quite a few nice desktops here. Simplezz looks nice.

Anyway, still rocking Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity (which par from Compiz and some memory leaks, is functional to use)... I can't be bothered for the 12.04 upgrade and potentially deal with Nvidia driver problems like the 11.04->11.10 upgrade.

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#36 QUAD2500K

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Posted 28 May 2012 - 22:16

simplezz
Arch | Gnome 3 | gnome-shell-theme-gnomarch Shell Theme


thats a cool setup , i myself always get lost when i try to install arch

#37 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 14:25

View PostShMaunder, on 28 May 2012 - 22:13, said:

Anyway, still rocking Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity (which par from Compiz and some memory leaks, is functional to use)... I can't be bothered for the 12.04 upgrade and potentially deal with Nvidia driver problems like the 11.04->11.10 upgrade.

The drivers for me are actually decent. The box I have Ubuntu 12.04 on has an NVIDIA GT 250 if I remember correctly. I have compiz with wobbly windows on too. It's a nice little video card. I want to get another and SLI.

In the future if you do want to upgrade, I'd wipe and start from scratch. There's just too much that can go wrong :)

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 18:25

View Postbutilikethecookie, on 29 May 2012 - 14:25, said:

In the future if you do want to upgrade, I'd wipe and start from scratch. There's just too much that can go wrong :)

Your right, I should do a clean install. But its a pain when I want to get on with things without messing about with setups. Next time I will stick with the LTS me thinks.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 18:38

View PostQUAD2500K, on 28 May 2012 - 22:16, said:

simplezz
Arch | Gnome 3 | gnome-shell-theme-gnomarch Shell Theme


thats a cool setup , i myself always get lost when i try to install arch

Same. Im trying to install arch on Virtualbox, but no luck :(

#40 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 19:54

View PostShMaunder, on 29 May 2012 - 18:25, said:

Your right, I should do a clean install. But its a pain when I want to get on with things without messing about with setups. Next time I will stick with the LTS me thinks.

Ha Ha. yeah the Linux install process is pretty bland. I usually stick with LTS unless it's a major change and all the reviews are good. I like your ubuntu screen (above) and your server though.

#41 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 19:55

ha! hit post before i was done!

#42 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 19:56

Double post!

#43 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 19:56

tripple!

#44 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 19:57

Quad! I am trippin' admin remove these!

You guys should really work in a "DELETE" button where Report- Blog-Edit-top is located!!!

#45 butilikethecookie

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 20:10

Here's my current Desktop. A few things have changed since i last posted