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Originally posted by paupav View PostI had Antergos for quite a while. I've even spent time improving their wiki. I don't believe their audience can be big. If you want rolling release use Manjaro, else use Ubuntu.
And Manjaro Testing is Arch Stable with Manjaro Stuff and Manjaro Unstable is Arch Testing with Manjaro Stuff so it isn't like Manjaro users lose access to things like the mesa-git repos and whatnot.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
Yep...though I wouldn't go with Ubuntu (just never cared for it).
And Manjaro Testing is Arch Stable with Manjaro Stuff and Manjaro Unstable is Arch Testing with Manjaro Stuff so it isn't like Manjaro users lose access to things like the mesa-git repos and whatnot.
Although having both would probably be nice. One "always latest" and one "specifically version X".
Anyway I had to resolve failing pacman -Syu calls (package conflicts) every few weeks on my box with Manjaro while I had a running Arch for months to years without a conflict.
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Originally posted by ElectricPrism View Post
Arch user for at least 5 years with 15 archboxes. Installed Gentoo on my 32 core machine to see what the fuss was about, still trying to figure out why exactly what benefits, special powers or other cool perks I get other than the obvious coolness of compiling everything from source with some ability to tweak.
I'm not writing code to cross deploy to x86_64, i686 and ARM, if I was I would be on Gentoo fulltime already. Not sure what other perks I am missing.
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Originally posted by aksdb View Post
I never liked that I had to pin kernel and module versions. I quite like the generic "linux" and "nvidia" etc. packages of Arch.
Although having both would probably be nice. One "always latest" and one "specifically version X".
Anyway I had to resolve failing pacman -Syu calls (package conflicts) every few weeks on my box with Manjaro while I had a running Arch for months to years without a conflict.
There are node.js packages for LTS series, similarly you could have packages with given kernel versions or whatever other software.
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Originally posted by aksdb View Post
I never liked that I had to pin kernel and module versions. I quite like the generic "linux" and "nvidia" etc. packages of Arch.
Although having both would probably be nice. One "always latest" and one "specifically version X".
Anyway I had to resolve failing pacman -Syu calls (package conflicts) every few weeks on my box with Manjaro while I had a running Arch for months to years without a conflict.
Technically, that makes 12 Grub entries for 3 kernels. I've only had to use the lts one once in 4 years back on Antergos (I didn't pay attention and missed a failed ZFS dkms build during a kernel upgrade and used lts long enough to fix that) and I've never had to use anything other than my own linux builds on Manjaro since I learned from my mistake and now track ZoL a hell of a lot better and stick with whatever their highest supported kernel is (currently, the latest 5.1 with 0.8rc5).
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Originally posted by stingray454 View Post
While that's true for distros like Manjaro that has their own repositories (that are usually lagging behind), Antergos was using the standard arch repos - ie pure arch with easier setup and some distro-repos with things like wallpapers, icon packs, base configurations and whatnot. Imo 5 minutes afk:ing with the Antergos installer is the same as 30 minutes manual labor of setting up normal arch - end result is exactly the same. There's no right or wrong way of doing it, but I prefer the former.
As for the installation, since I only do it once, I don't mind the pacstrap then arch-chroot way. In fact, it seems rather natural, and I don't have a ton of junk or pre-configured bloat added.
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Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10 View Post
What about something like this: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?...iner=&flagged=
There are node.js packages for LTS series, similarly you could have packages with given kernel versions or whatever other software.
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Originally posted by AndyChow View Post
I didn't know a non-arch distro could legally use the arch repos. But I've been wrong plenty of times.
As for the installation, since I only do it once, I don't mind the pacstrap then arch-chroot way. In fact, it seems rather natural, and I don't have a ton of junk or pre-configured bloat added.
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Anyone tried it out or recommend something else?
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