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Alessandro Cuppari • Edited

I've tried Debian and Ubuntu but I settled with Arch.

Once you pass the installation process (which frankly is not that spooky if you follow the steps outlined in the wiki); you'll end up with a system that has only what you actually need. Also it's rolling release system means that I'll always have my packages up to date; the only fear that I had is that, since is not a Debian based distro, was a lack of packages. But so far there has not been a package that wasn't either in the official repos or in AUR (a sort of repo maintained by the community).

Also it has given me way less issues than Ubuntu or Debian, specially (and incredibly) with my GPU drivers.

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Fulton Browne

This is what scares me about arch

note: I bricked the same Ubuntu machine 3 times 2 years ago, that's why I am scared

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Alessandro Cuppari

Really? Thats weird, I just followed the getting started on the wiki and did not have any issues. The only thing that cost me was getting the DHCP working in order to connect to the internet, that and setting up GRUB; boy that was a nightmare.

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Fulton Browne

This weekend I'll try installing it on this old powerpc machine I have, and see what happens...

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Yannik_Sc

The easier was for installing Arch would be to use Manjaro. Its basically Arch with a typical, graphical installer.

So if its not working the classic way ..

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Heiker

It doesn't have to be scary. Manjaro has a nice installer, Manjaro-Architect, that will guide you through the whole process. This way you can't forget any important step.

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Fulton Browne

Thanks, heiker

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Greg Ruminski

@FultonB:

I believe Arch is officially supported for x86-64 arch only.