the Arch Linux thread

[infra_red_dude]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

The GTK intergration sucks. Isn't there a way to apply firefox theme to GTK ?

Err... FF neither uses Qt nor GTK.. so you can't actually apply a "gtk" theme to it.

Tango looks ugly compared to Crystal SVG. I wonder why these guys chose tango.

Tango is fugly!

Arch is much more simple than I expected. I am surprised why Ubuntu is the newbie oriented distro and not Arch. Its so easy to use, its simply unnerving at times.

sudo apt-get convenience... and the sheer number of binary apps available.

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Since Everyone is running Arch now Im thinking of moving on to Gentoo.

Gentoo is just too good for you. You can never install gentoo.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Gentoo is just too good for you. You can never install gentoo.

actually, I was going to install gentoo instead of arch.
but, I got a kernel panic right in the 2008 live CD

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

actually, I was going to install gentoo instead of arch.
but, I got a kernel panic right in the 2008 live CD

HA! In Soviet Russia kernel panics YOU!!

Using live cd, eh? You aren't fit to use gentoo.

 

[Faun]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

^^death carb for putie then

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Gentoo is just too good for you. You can never install gentoo.

Actually Gentoo isn't good enough for me is the right case. If I was so adamant on installing it I would. The only thing I can't bear is compiling for hours. The performance difference is probably going to be negligible and not to mention that I have more than ample resources to run anything I choose to.

The only reason I was thinking of trying Gentoo was pretty much what Qwerty said. You'll learn a load of stuff while doing it. Otherwise

Gentoo isn't good enough for me. Not Vice versa as you put it.

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Gentoo isn't good enough for me. Not Vice versa as you put it.

Haan Haan, angur joh khaane na mile woh toh khatte hi lagte hain na.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

HA! In Soviet Russia kernel panics YOU!!

Using live cd, eh? You aren't fit to use gentoo.

I downloaded the live CD because it serves more than one purpose - it can act as an emergency recovary CD and at the same time I can install gentoo off it.
Hell, even arch is a live CD

PS: I doubt I would ever install gentoo-linux (though I might try gentoo-bsd) because It lacks KDEmod

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Once again, you aren't fit to use gentoo. Do you even know anything about gentoo? One can easily avoid meta-packages, set right use flags, optimise the CXXFLAGS and achieve better results than kdemod. Maybe not so simple as using KDEmod but still better, IMO.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Once again, you aren't fit to use gentoo. Do you even know anything about gentoo? One can easily avoid meta-packages, set right use flags, optimise the CXXFLAGS and achieve better results than kdemod. Maybe not so simple as using KDEmod but still better, IMO.

I know, but it all comes at a cost - I need to compile a hell lot of big packages
You think P4 2.66GHz and 256MB DDR1 400MHz RAM will give me good compile times ?

besides, here too I can avoid meta-packages, set right use flags and some other things I didn't try yet. all that is done in pacman.conf or just while installing

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Are you serious? How did you port use flags to arch?

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

no idea
but I never felt the need to do anything like that...

the options available with pacman are so good that the only complaint I have is that for many things, the pacman commands get unnessarily long

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Use alias feature of bash then.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Use alias feature of bash then.

can't... I am configuring arch only after 3:00 PM today. till then, no time for all that.

 

[kalpik]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Gentoo is just too good for you. You can never install gentoo.

Stop trolling

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Stop trolling

What trolling, he doesn't even know what is an alias, use flag and stuff, just bluffs around. Thus, my conclusion is very much valid.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

KDEmod is simply too beautiful... the KDE control center rocks. I can find all options there, including one to make GTK apps like firefox look KDE native

 

[praka123]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

^ so ,atlast you found what is kdemod ?

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

^ so ,atlast you found what is kdemod ?

???
I didn't quite get you...

as for performance, I barely notice much differences...

firefox hangs like hell... whats up with it ?

and wtf is kaboodle there in preference to kaffeine ? they have a horrible sense of choice...

 

[Faun]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

edit you ~/.bashrc file metaaaaaaaaaaaal

add alises like

alias ls="ls -la"
alias cls="clear"
alias ns="netstat -t"

lolz