Is Arch Linux Really Faster Than Ubuntu?

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

Well.. I do respect your opinion..
But the principle of Arch isn't only to make it difficult to install..

As I told on my last speech in FLISOL ( Latin American Free Software
Instalation Festival )... Arch is a great Linux School. For people who
whanna learn Linux it's good choice. I don't mean people should stay the
whole life using Arch. But, you'll have to agree that in one installation of
Arch you'll learn more about linux than in 10 installations of Ubuntu, for
example. I'm not saying that one is better than the other... I'm just saying
that Arch's installation isn't very easy because of that. To instigate
people to navigate, search, study, etc..

As I told you before.. I'm a big fan of Debian. Is my favorite distro for
servers.. but in my laptop I do still prefer Arch.

The installation isn't so simple like other distros.. you're right.. But,
after the whole system is done.. you'll realize the differences between Arch
and other distros. A great example of this is the AUR (aur.archlinux.org). A
community repo where everyone can put their own packages for everyone who
wants to try.

Anyway.. as I told you before.. I didn't want to start a flamewar... I'll
never say that distro X is better than distro Y..

The best distro, in my opinion, is the one you uses and solve your problems.

cheers,
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:40:35AM -0300, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
> > That's true Lennart.
> >
> > That's why I didn't say that Arch is better.. or ubuntu is better...
> >
> > As I said (and you agree) depends on how do you use your system.
> >
> > You said you do like to try new distros and new package managements.
> Well,
> > did you try Arch? You should try it. It's a nice distro and I'm sure you
> > will not be disappointed with our package manager (pacman). It's really
> > good. I'm also an Debian fan. I'm an network administrator and all the
> > servers here (company) are running Debian. But in my laptop I do prefer
> > Arch.Give it a chance. ;]
>
> Having just read the installation instructions, it reminds me too much
> of installing SLS (the first distribution I ever installed).  Way too
> much manual work which shouldn't be necesary.
>
> I think I fundamentally disagree with the premise.  Certainly the
> description of "The Arch Way", makes me not even want to try installing
> it in a KVM session.  Their aim is wrong.  I have no need to go back to
> the way things were 17 years ago.  Anyone thinking modern distributions
> (of which apparently Arch Linux is NOT one) are too complex simply
> doesn't understand how they work and hence would not be able to make a
> better system.  Simpler is not better.  Simpler is just simpler.
>
> To me the key of a distribution is:
> Don't make me (and ever other user) do something trivial that the package
> maintainer (who knows the package better than most of the users) could
> have already done automatically.  It is inefficient and a waste of time.
> This is not to say that you should do what windows does and make it
> imposible for the user to get at the details and do it themselves if
> they want to.
>
> Also I don't believe in optimizing for i686, given the amount of hardware
> I have that won't run that.  Never mind being x86 only (which would also
> be a big problem for me).
>
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