Is Arch Linux Really Faster Than Ubuntu?

[ted leslie]

Sounds like an advert for ..... Linux Mint ? :) 

But seriously, that is exactly why i use Mint - its Debian and Ubuntu done right (no fixed release, waits for the bugs to be flushed out) for the final user, with all the "illegal" multimedia already in it (due to it being produced in the free world :) ).

I tried arch, as Dann from TLLTS raves on it. It was a easy install, even thou it was power user based.
But I had no luck getting all the great codec support for it. If it proved rock solid for servers? may 
be usefull. It seems since slack is sort of dead (how much can 1-2 guys do after all), slackers are adopting
 arch as the next poweruser (bragging rights) distro. My experience was, I would need many more hours to get
arch to what Mint was out of the box, and mint restricts me in no real way, giving me all the goodness of 
debian and ubuntu, all be it 2-6 weeks after said ubuntu release.

Now that I am so happy with Mint, my big ? these days (in the Linux world) is, do I try KDE again. Like many I jumped off it when they f'd up so bad (see even Linus rant), but I am thinking it may be worth trying again, as
gnome is maybe a bit "too simple". Anyone gone back to kde lately and loving it? would be interested in
hearing. 

tl

> 
> Ubuntu tries to make a good distribution that is easy to install and does
> what most people want out of the box with minimal effort.  They mostly
> succeed at that.  On the other hand they also aim to provide releases on
> a fixed schedule.  That ruins it.  It is buggy, upgrades fail or break
> the machine, and can be a big nightmare.  Fixed schedules do that.
> Of course if they didn't do that, perhaps they would just be plain
> old Debian.
> 
> > Anyway.. I'm done on this thread...
> > 
> > have fun with debian and fanaticism. ;]
> 
> I am not a fanatic by any means.  I just have enough experience to know
> when things are going in the wrong direction.  Well at least I think
> they are the wrong direction.  My goals are to do it right (that being
> the best possible way) and only doing it once (which means only one person
> having to do something rather than everybody having to do something).
> I like efficiency because I am lazy.  I don't want to do repetetive
> boring stuff.
> 
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