On 08/22/14, Access Denied said the following...   
       
    AD> Hello g00r00,   
    AD>    
    AD> On 21 Aug 14 17:53, g00r00 wrote to Access Denied:   
    AD>    
    AD>  gr> I'm sold!  I'll have to give it a chance sometime.   
    AD>    
    AD>  gr> Right now I am using Ubuntu 14, having recently switched from Mint   
    AD>  gr> Linux 13. I usually pick whatever I can find that has the packages I   
    AD>  gr> want, so I have little to no code compiling.   
    AD>    
    AD> The main difference with Archlinux is that after you install, you have a   
    AD> barebones command line system with a package manager. After that, you   
    AD> add what YOU want, not what they think you want. :)   
    AD>    
    AD> So a simple:   
    AD>    
    AD> pacman -S xorg [gnome/kde/fluxbox/whatever]   
    AD>    
    AD> Will get you X and a desktop environment of your choice in about 5   
    AD> minutes or less, depending on whether you install kde or fluxbox (big   
    AD> meta packaged desktop environment compared to a very small lightweight   
    AD> window manager).   
    AD>    
    AD>  gr> I switched to Ubuntu because it had SDL2 at the time, when most other   
    AD>  gr> didn't.   
    AD>    
    AD> Looks like:   
    AD>    
    AD> pacman -S sdl2   
    AD>    
    AD> wants to install sdl2 and all it's dependencies. :)   
    AD>    
    AD> pacman -Syu   
    AD>    
    AD> updates your entire system.   
    AD>    
    AD> pacman -Rsu   
    AD>    
    AD> removes package(s) and it's dependencies as well as any unneeded   
    AD> packages (if dependencies weren't removed but a package was at some   
    AD> point).   
    AD>    
    AD> The list goes on.. But it's short and sweet and to the point. I don't   
    AD> have anything on here that's not being used. :)   
      
   My only attempt at installing Arch Linux was on my Pi.  It seemed to install   
   great, but then *after* the install it wanted to configure the swap space.    
   But there was no more space on the drive to add it, because it was all used   
   during the install.  Is that a problem that is specific to the Pi install?    
   Can it be worked into the initial installation, so that I don't have to   
   configure swap after the fact?   
      
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