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     Re: Arch Linux   
     By: Chicken Head to All on Fri Jan 10 2020 05:19 pm   
      
    > I decided to try with Arch and it's...painful.  I know they want to be   
    > "Linux from the ground up" but even basic things like setting up your   
    > network and basic stuff is painful.  Needlessly painful.   
      
   I am not an Arch fan, but the few times I have set it up, I don't think it was   
   that bad.   
      
   Setting the basics from the ground up, for me, is getting Tiny Core Linux and   
   having to COMPILE and PACKAGE the stuff you need, then enable it and load it   
   in a custom Operating System image. Or better yet, having to build a toolchain   
   in order to compile from the kernel up, including Glibc.   
      
   Anyway, I am using Slackware for the BSD-like experience in Linux.   
   Installation requires manual partitioning, but then the installer sets the   
   basics via scripts. The base system is distributed in binary form, most extras   
   can be built from Slackbuilds, which nowadays works like a ports system.   
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