Every now and then I have enough of my current main Operating System shortcomings and make a change.
This time I got rid of sluggish Ubuntu Linux, that brought more and more bloat with every release. Lucid added even Erlang virtual machine to the stack! As if Mono alongside with Python wasn’t eating my CPU cycles enough. What next? Mandatory Java running in background?
The first idea was calling back my old friend Gentoo Linux. But I had a feeling I wanted to try something else. The lack of fast installed binary packages was the thing that switched me from Gentoo to Ubuntu in the first place.
A lot of former Gentoo users had switched to Arch Linux. So I gave it a try and it’s behaving very well so far. NCurses installer was very straightforward. Familiar text mode boot I missed so long. X running after several seconds later. Gnome looks as it should. (I hate recent Ubuntu contraptions.) Epiphany is usable again – my all-time favourite browser. Well configured pacman is a very fast and nice tool. BSD style configuration and init scripts are great! No more symlink hell and esoteric configuration files.
So far, so good. :-)
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