At first I installed linux mint,
Then I started distro hop to ubuntu, opensuse, popos, manjaro, later I heard about Vanilla Arch
and installed it, Finally a distro that impressed me a lot, and I've never thought about hopping anymore.
But I still hop desktop managers and window managers, but I use i3wm as my daily driver.
Hmm not much of data will be consumed, except vanilla arch rest all I have used comes with pre installed stuff, so the iso will be around 1.9 to 2.6 or higher, they will be heavy bloated,
Vanilla arch iso is like 700mb or so, but this thing only greets you with terminal, after booting into the iso you have to download the stuff which will be around 700 - 800 mb, later it depends on the desktop or window managers size, somewhere from 25mb - 400mb
So vanilla arch will comes around less than 2gb,
But it's an extremely lightweight distro, you can also make it bloated like others or more, bcz there are tons of support from pacman and aur repos
But the time taken will be depended on your network speed and SSD or hard drive speed, if you have a good wifi or network speed it won't take more than 10 min or less to configure, hard drive takes longer time to configure or open few packages, SSD makes it quick
No I haven't seen any crash till now, it completely depends on the packages you install, if you install from an unauthorised repos it will crash on new update,
The customization is pretty cool and you do a lot of things, but I find that it can be quite resource consuming compared to GNOME. The KDE Plasma looks really good compared to GNOME and there are a lot of themes that offer different features and widgets as well.
I've never used any servers, bcz it's an bleeding edge, but people won't suggest Arch Linux on server, bcz the libraries very much often refresh and update almost a day, so sometimes some projects might get issues, so they often stick with centOs or ubuntuLTS or etc,
But arch is stable until unless we mess it up by downloading whatever stuff from unauthorised sites.
At first I installed linux mint,
Then I started distro hop to ubuntu, opensuse, popos, manjaro, later I heard about Vanilla Arch
and installed it, Finally a distro that impressed me a lot, and I've never thought about hopping anymore.
But I still hop desktop managers and window managers, but I use i3wm as my daily driver.
Hmm not much of data will be consumed, except vanilla arch rest all I have used comes with pre installed stuff, so the iso will be around 1.9 to 2.6 or higher, they will be heavy bloated,
Vanilla arch iso is like 700mb or so, but this thing only greets you with terminal, after booting into the iso you have to download the stuff which will be around 700 - 800 mb, later it depends on the desktop or window managers size, somewhere from 25mb - 400mb
So vanilla arch will comes around less than 2gb,
But it's an extremely lightweight distro, you can also make it bloated like others or more, bcz there are tons of support from pacman and aur repos
But the time taken will be depended on your network speed and SSD or hard drive speed, if you have a good wifi or network speed it won't take more than 10 min or less to configure, hard drive takes longer time to configure or open few packages, SSD makes it quick
No I haven't seen any crash till now, it completely depends on the packages you install, if you install from an unauthorised repos it will crash on new update,
I also tried several desktop managers on Ubuntu, but the KDE seems to suit my needs pretty well.
Yeah kde is good, it gives good alternative to windows desktop
Yes, indeed!
Xfce desktop is simple and fast. Next preferred Cinammom
Never really tried KDE for at least 5 years. What was your impression, especially of customization and bloatlessness?
The customization is pretty cool and you do a lot of things, but I find that it can be quite resource consuming compared to GNOME. The KDE Plasma looks really good compared to GNOME and there are a lot of themes that offer different features and widgets as well.
Kde will become more hungry when you start it customize a lot, I don't know about recent updates,
That is true, I'e only tried KDE on machines with a lot of resources.
What was your impression of Arch? I have never tried it at all. I am currently on Manjaro, though.
Vanilla Arch is know for its simplicity and extremely lightweight distro, basically you are building you own system,
Installation will be fun, people often say they reinstalled many times, but i have installed it only once still using it,
You can customize it however you want, this is the only distro welcomes you with an terminal
The only thing I hate is it leaves back the config files and folders after you remove the package 😑
If you wanna give it try, then these steps might help you,
Iso will be somewhere around 700mb, and installation will be like 1gb or so.
But, is it really different from Ubuntu mini / server? Is it more stable / updated?
Thanks for sharing it, Krishna! I will check this out.
Yes it is different from ubuntu mini,
I've never used any servers, bcz it's an bleeding edge, but people won't suggest Arch Linux on server, bcz the libraries very much often refresh and update almost a day, so sometimes some projects might get issues, so they often stick with centOs or ubuntuLTS or etc,
But arch is stable until unless we mess it up by downloading whatever stuff from unauthorised sites.
It has an awesome package manager yay or pacman. Install any software from terminal.