Arch Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Arch Linux Average rating 9.3 from 299 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least one sentence about the distribution while limiting your review to 2040 characters. What are your thoughts on Arch Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- current2011.08.192010.052009.082009.022008.062007.080.80.70.60.50.40.30.20.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,040 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2019-06-09 Votes: 6 That's a distro that you actually know what you're doing with your system and if something goes wrong you are able to fix. Absolutely no long hardness. Different than you might think, everything do not break spontaneously. If you just updated a package and that one needs to update a configuration file, update it (this potentially can avoid lots of issues) and customize something if it's necessary. Everything you need to know is already on the Arch Wiki. Almost every single thing has multiple ways to get done, from de easiest to the hardest. All the hardness you can have is on installation and initial configuration of everything. Then, literally everything is so easy to get done and you don't need to depend to flatpak's, snap's and anything, because almost all the applications found on the arch repository is updated and not customized by default (there are exceptions because of compability/security reasons). So... With this distro you avoid lots of problems, have everything updated, pretty stable and fast (if you configure correctly) and, in lots of cases, make the actual user like me just stop hopping to another distro for better features. Long live, Arch Linux! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2019-06-05 Votes: 1 Hello all! This is THE best distro i've ever using, everything just work if know what u do. I started using Mint, Ubuntu, Debian and several others but i just love this ARCH :) Just now i use i3-wm cause it is lightweight and simple when u know again what u do. Just give it a try and enjoy! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: current Rating: 10 Date: 2019-06-04 Votes: 3 I've been learning how to use and customize the xfce4 desktop from Debian and then were using so much slower Flatpak applications because of the very old ones from the repositories. Since i've learned a lot about Linux, I figured out it's time to learn and install Arch Linux. After some days of testing and learning, now I'm running it with xfce4 with exactly the same appearance I had on Debian and ALL the applications is from Arch Official Repositories and Arch User Repositories, with a way faster, compatible and easy operational system to use, no longer hardness. Here's some tips: -Uninstall applications using pacman -Rs instead of -R, in order for removing the dependencies that will not be userful from another applications; -Create a line on /etc/fstab of every partition you have on your internal storange like it's recommended on Arch Wiki. If you need to use the HDD/SSD with this o.s. installed on another machine, maybe the fstab will be userful for booting properly. For example my ssd that have a single partition: /dev/sda1 / ext4 discard 0 1 ; -Add your user to the group wheel and sudo (if sudo doesn't exists and you want to use sudo, create it); -Enable the Multilib repository if you want 32 bit applications like steam; -Compile and install an AUR package manager like yaourt if you want an application that isn't on official repository; -Install the xorg (metapackage) and xterm in order to run some applications (even some games on steam require that). Long live, Arch Linux. Because of you, I guess I'll never hop to another distro again. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 299 reader reviews of Arch Linux...