[arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 03/16/2010 01:58 PM, Thayer Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook<jtwdyp at ttlc.net>  wrote:
>> It does look like getting Arch Linux configured the way I need it is going
>> to take a bit more work than I'm used to. But if the "rolling release" part
>> of what I've read about it means I won't have to recreate my personal user
>> environment (heavily modified keyboard shortcuts etc...) every 6 months or
>> so just to keep up to date, then I figure it'll be more than worth the effort.
>
> Welcome aboard and glad you're getting things sorted out.  Once you
> have used a  rolling release distro, everything else just seems silly.
>   Reinstall every six months? No thanks!

+1

When I hear about issues people run into when upgrading to, say, the 
latest version of Ubuntu, my thinking is usually some combination of:

1) "What's an OS upgrade?"

2) "What's an OS version?"

3) "If you were running Arch, you wouldn't be running into so many bugs 
on upgrade ... because you'd never wind up upgrading so many packages 
all at the same time."

4) "You're still running into *that* bug?  That was fixed in Arch 
*months* ago!"

It's so much fun to be a smug Arch user.

:-)

DR