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   Hello Chicken!   
      
   10 Jan 2020 17:19, Chicken Head wrote to All:   
      
    CH> So is anyone using Arch Linux and can you convince me why I should    
    CH> even bother?   
      
   i keep away from percompiled problems :)   
      
    CH> I decided to try with Arch and it's...painful.  I know they want to be    
    CH> "Linux from the ground up" but even basic things like setting up your    
    CH> network and basic stuff is painful.  Needlessly painful.   
      
   if you really like to be painfull try slackware   
      
    CH> I am a fan of FreeBSD and I feel like they are trying to do what    
    CH> FreeBSD does...only wrong.  Painful.   FreeBSD can get you going from    
    CH> the ground up with minimal effort and pain.   
      
   no matter what you try you have to learn what is less painfull :)   
      
    CH>  The FreeBSD guide is    
    CH> great.  The Arch Wiki?  Not so good.  Bootstrapping Linux is not "fun"    
    CH> and the worst parts should be automated with a simple script.   
      
   on gentoo there is catelyst to bootstrap binaries nearly into anything if gcc   
   will build it   
      
    CH>  Getting    
    CH> all the way through, rebooting and finding there is no    
    CH> networking..that's bullshit.   
      
   you know openrc ?   
      
   and the combo of kernel that have now new style network device names ?   
      
    CH>  Networking should be part of the base    
    CH> install full stop.  It's 2020 after all.   
      
   boot a copy of systemresquecd, and see how lame gentoo is :)   
      
    CH> Convince me otherwise.  Like Gentoo, I've gotten part way through this    
    CH> and realized "why the fuck am I doing this?"   
      
   please dont sweer in linux, you can boot anything if you like   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.4.8-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64))   
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