So, linux… When i got my very first own PC I inmediately tried to install ubuntu on it. Didn’t work that well in the beginning, my graphics card was to new so it wasn’t supported yet by the driver shipped with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, so I installed the beta of Gutsy Gibbon, and it worked. And I was happy, for a while. I still had the feeling that i was missing something. So i went out and searched for a different distribution. I came across Debian but it resembled Ubuntu too much.

Then I came across Arch Linux. I was a little scared though, after the textbased install you had a command line system. I didn’t knew if i was advanced enough to do that kind of stuff. But I took the risk. I read the beginners guide in the amazing Arch wiki and did it. And it was much easier then I thought. It takes a little more time then an Ubuntu install but it is much more to my liking. Not a ton of programs that I never use, I just install what I want. And then I saw how great Arch is.

Arch has a lot of things I like. To begin with, it’s rolling release. I don’t have to wait until a new release of the distribution to get a new version of a program. It’s amazing. In theory you never have to reinstall. Second, we have the AUR which stands for Arch User Repository. User can submit programs themselves so almost every program is to be found in the Official Repository’s or in the AUR. Third we have the ABS. The ABS makes it really easy to rebuild any package from the repository’s.

So the conclusion of this post? Arch, I love you