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https://bbs.archlinux.org – If you do not have time to read the wiki and manual, you will experience a great deal more breakage - and waste a lot more time - than you need to.That said, if you did not have time to keep Debian up to date, why on Jupiter did you choose Arch?I do not mean to be unwelcoming. Of course, you are most welcome, if you really want to use Arch. But do you? It does not strike me as a good fit given your description at all. Debian or Fedora or some other distro will need much less frequent updating, much less manual intervention and involve much less breakage. If you do not have time to maintain you (HowTos)

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It’s been some four months since I’m not using my favorite Distro (Arch Linux), I’m now using Debian.

All started because I’ve made some changes to my Arch Linux computer, and it stopped working, I needed something to work, and because the installation process of Arch Linux is not that easy or at least not that fast, I decided to go with Debian.

We love Debian, but it's hardly the most spritely distro around when it comes to popping out regular releases. Historically, part of the problem has been determining when it's finished - and the old adage "it's ready when it's ready" doesn't really make much sense unless you have a very clear set of goals.

This comes from http://xkcd.com We all know that romance requires dating, and other stuff, so that demand time, time the Debian developers may not have, so they are going to take the time they use for the project and use it in dating.

I updated Arch recently (last time I updated was around 10/2011) and was surprised by a greeting that states that my system cannot recover and I must log out. I did some searching around and I didn't find a solution to my issue.

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BHReach wrote:When I do something new, I just run things without any configuration changes to see what the default behavior is.Most of the time this is not a good idea. Arch follows upstream, for the most part, lacking any serious breakage, and not all upstreams play nicely together (there's an infinite possible number of configurations). That's why the wiki exists and is so important.

previous page... DebianThis is one of my favorite distribution for servers, when I don't have enough time for a fine tuned HW optimization (Gentoo) or when I don't have so much time to spend on the installation and configuration process (Arch) I usually adopt Debian.

^ This is because corenominal adds some features in CrunchBang that are just a tiny bit outside of mainline Debian, and these features have, so far, differed from one release to another enough that cross-release upgrades could cause breakage.  (Note, however, that Waldorf is only the second Debian-based release of CrunchBang, and there was no upgrade path from #!

I have seen a lot of people recommend LFS and Arch well i choose Debian.How to make a custom Debian setup By SlipshotFor this little project you WILL need a good Internet connection and a Debian CD, i used the net install CD but any will do. And if you are asking why would anyone want to do this than here is your answer.

Welcome to #! silverdragon.Ubuntu is still based on Debian although it seems to do a lot of things differently from a pure Debian installation.If your aim is to get rid of cruft, use a real Debian distro, such as #!. Main difference between #! & Debian is the little niceties that have been added to make life easier when installing.