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What's the state of your machine now?
Authored by: cjk fossman on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 05:32 PM EDT

Did you get it going again?

Have you seen this post on the Arch Linux site? http s://www.archlinux.org/news/the-lib- directory-becomes-a-symlink/

Did you ask for help in the Arch Linux forums? Did you get help?

It seems like Arch is a distro where you have to keep abreast of developments. I suppose in that sense it is not "user friendly" like the Debian based distros, where the apt-get update and upgrade functions usually just work.

I guess I have a different definition of "user friendly." To me it means the documentation is accurate, complete, up to date, readable and searchable.

If Arch meets those criteria, one would learn a lot by diving into the documentation. In the end, you would have a system tailored just to your needs.

Not that you can't do the same with but you don't have to. You can live with the default system that the distro owners dole out.

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Arch-Linux
Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 03:27 AM EDT
I wish you hadn't mentioned Arch-Linux. I tried Arch-Linux on Raspberry Pi and
lost attention when I couldn't run xorg.

However, the Magpi ran an article on running Arch-Linux and suddenly I
understood how to do Linux stuff that I wanted (but, didn't need) whereas my
friendly Kubuntu kept me from such gubbins.

I need a computer to do stuff. I will continue with Kubuntu until Mint is better
for that purpose.

I want to be able to do stuff with Linux. I can see that Arch-Linux is training
on how a Linux system works and I will learn that on the Raspi. That is an
honest use of the Raspberry Pi that salutes the original purpose of the
organisation.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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