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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.

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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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 :)

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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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 :(

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.

I see so many people are having issues installing Arch Linux. I will be busy for the next three or four days, but after that I will make a tutorial for everyone. It will probably just be done within VMware. The only issue with that is trying to show how to set up wireless networks, but I can figure something out. Does anyone have specific requests?

I see so many people are having issues installing Arch Linux. I will be busy for the next three or four days, but after that I will make a tutorial for everyone. It will probably just be done within VMware. The only issue with that is trying to show how to set up wireless networks, but I can figure something out. Does anyone have specific requests?

Please make one for Virtualbox, with gnome shell 3 installation instructions. :)

I see so many people are having issues installing Arch Linux. I will be busy for the next three or four days, but after that I will make a tutorial for everyone. It will probably just be done within VMware. The only issue with that is trying to show how to set up wireless networks, but I can figure something out. Does anyone have specific requests?

thanks i would appreciate that

I see so many people are having issues installing Arch Linux. I will be busy for the next three or four days, but after that I will make a tutorial for everyone. It will probably just be done within VMware. The only issue with that is trying to show how to set up wireless networks, but I can figure something out. Does anyone have specific requests?

that would be great !!

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