On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:21:43 +1300 Ryan McCoskrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:06:13 Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM, John Carter > > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So having gone around and around and around the Ubuntu Oneiric / > > > Precise / ... install, and grub grubbing and (quite promising > > > boot-repair) root.... > > > > > > I have got nowhere due that UEFI curse word. > > > > > > Arch Linux installed as slick as a greased suppository. > > > > > > So I'm going with that for now. > > > > Good choice IMHO > > > > Funny how power user howto searches seem to so often come up with > > archlinux wiki/forums answers on google lately. > > > > In other words they are a distro that still allows some low level > > control, which is a real bonus. Plus rolling release is what you > > really want- seems to me you just get ubuntu working how you want > > and there's another damned release, and the upgrade is never > > foolproof. > > > > I did the whole Arch thing for a while. I learnt a lot, had much fun, > but stoped doing anything other than install and configure. I'm now > on Mageia and It's flexible enough. i use gentoo, for a while i was spending a lot of time setting it up,tweaking it, updating it, etc etc now ive mostly got crude bash scripts handling most of the updating leaving me with very little admin overhead from memory i don't think ive done much more than config file updates for my "home server" in the last few months ...admittedly my desktop can get a little messed up, mostly due to the "live" versions of way to much stuff im running but even then i don't spend much more than an hour a week sorting it out my desktop runs gentoo unstable (with a side of <15 "live" builds,and a substantial collection of unmasked stuff ) -- aaron m _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
