On switching to Arch Linux

Re:On switching to Arch Linux by shanemhansen on Friday January 27, 2012 @11:13AM (#3518764)

Arch is fun to play with. A couple years ago the fact that everything was i686 optimized was a big deal. These days just about everyone is using 64bit. It's a good choice for embedded linux systems and servers (Beyond Oblivion used arch for their servers).

Speaking from experience, life is just too short to run arch on a laptop. Heck, I have a hp pavilion dv7 with switching graphics and even that was a pita to get stable on ubuntu.

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Re:On switching to Arch Linux by bwat47 on Sunday January 29, 2012 @12:44AM (#3524560)

I run arch on a laptop with no problems at all. I specifically got a laptop with intel graphics and wireless so I have a great experience with any distro :) Arch required almost no setup when it came to graphics/sound/wireless. Just had to install xf86-video-intel and xf86-input-synaptics.

IMO its best to stay the hell away from switchable graphics period if you intend to use linux.

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