Posts Tagged ‘Arch’
bye bye ubuntu
Finally, I am free from the clutches of Ubuntu Linux. They started off as all of the past Linux distros I have used have started, awesome. But then, a few years down the line, they decide, hey lets deviate from standard configuration files, daemon’s, etc. and patch everything to shit so its all interconnected…So I installed Arch Linux recently. My god, this distro is so much better. I can actually run 64 bit Linux, with some 32 bit programs as needed, with no issues. Well, I’ve had to make a few lib32-* packages, but that was also easy as hell. TF2 under Ubuntu, 15-60fps, and freezes a lot. Arch, 60-120fps, with pulseaudio installed for my bluetooth headset for use on ventrilo. Pulseaudio on Ubuntu was fail, and slowed everything down too damn much.
I am happy to report I no longer have to run Ubuntu. They can go try to be like windows/macos all they want, I want no part of it.
No Kde or Gnome either:
- openbox (window manager)
- lxpanel
- conky
- pcmanfm (file manager)
My mem usage is ~200MB with just Linux and my desktop running. I still can’t figure out why I succumbed to letting my desktop be transformed into a resource hog piece of crap that I rarely used as intended. Minimalism FTW.