[LeftWM] Void and siduction are in the past for me. It's time for ArcoLinux to shine!

cygnus , 7 months ago

Arco doesn’t come up that often - why use that over EndeavourOS (or vanilla Arch)?

hellfire103 OP , 7 months ago

EndeavourOS runs like shit on this particular laptop, and the installer could have used some work the last time I tried it.

I tried three times to install vanilla Arch on this laptop since I installed my new SSD, and it has failed in a different way each time. I’ve had it running well in the past, but this time it’s not playing ball, so I gave up and installed ArcoLinux.

alt , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Looks good!

Are you just exploring the waters? Or were you discontent with Void and siduction?

hellfire103 OP , 7 months ago

Void was tricky. I didn’t like Runit, and the package selection wasn’t great.

As for siduction, it was just a touch too buggy (i.e. XScreensaver caused the laptop to freeze when I closed the lid) and too preconfigured to be able to resolve easily. It also played havoc with my school’s BYOD internet. I’ll probably go back to it at some point, though.

Of course, the main reason for this new install is that I just bought an SSD, and I’d rather start fresh than try to flash my old hard disk across.

alt , 7 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!

I didn’t like Runit

Unfortunate, but not very surprising 😭. I hope it (or another init) will one day be more than a viable alternative to systemd, so that the hegemony will cease to exist.

the package selection wasn’t great

While not applicable in all cases, I’ve had great success with relying on Distrobox in case I had to rely on the repos of another distro to get my software.

As for siduction, it was just a touch too buggy (i.e. XScreensaver caused the laptop to freeze when I closed the lid) and too preconfigured to be able to resolve easily. It also played havoc with my school’s BYOD internet.

Interesting! I didn’t know that siduction is relatively unpolished.

I’ll probably go back to it at some point, though.

I wonder if perhaps SpiralLinux does a better job.

Of course, the main reason for this new install is that I just bought an SSD, and I’d rather start fresh than try to flash my old hard disk across.

Relatable 😜.

TootSweet , 7 months ago

Five minutes ago, I had never heard of ArcoLinux. Four minutes ago, I started searching for info on ArcoLinux. Three minutes ago, I found arcolinux.com . Now, I think I know less about ArcoLinux than I did six minutes ago.

hellfire103 OP , 7 months ago

It’s a distribution based on Arch, with four flavours.

ArcoLinuxL is the main one, with all the bells and whistles. ArcoLinuxS is the minimal one that comes with a desktop. ArcoLinuxD is the base one, which is comparable to a GUI version of the upstream Arch ISO.

It’s Derek Taylor’s (DistroTube’s) distro of choice.