Finding a new distro... part 1?
I've been looking pretty seriously at Arch to replace Gentoo, so this post will describe my experiences and impressions thus far. I set up a VM to try the install and get a feel for the distro, and so far it seems OK. The install was easy and pretty fast, although I would have liked the ability to configure my kernel at install -- a step that, at least after years of Gentoo, was conspicuously missing. As expected there are a bunch of modules loaded on boot (61 total iirc), and boot time was actually painfully slow -- about 50 seconds! I'm not sure if it's the VM or all the extra garbage at this point. On the flip side, getting a working X configuration up and running with Openbox took all of 10 minutes, a process that would've taken significantly longer on Gentoo. At the same time, I wasn't able to try out the nvidia prop. drivers since it's in a VM -- who knows how well that will work, but if my experience so far is any indication, it should be fairly flawless. Another plus is that the latest (beta) nvidia drivers are in the repository (180.16-1) which is nice. Now that I look at my sync dir, I only see 177.82-1 in my local sync, so I guess my repositories aren't configured correctly.
The package management program pacman will take some getting used to.
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