My first weekend with Arch

Antergos Gnome to be exact.
Lenovo x220 with 6GB/160GB

So far its mostly good. I was having lots of touchpad issues on my x220 Lenovo. Found out that the synaptic package is not supposed to be loaded anymore and libinput it now the one. Turns out both were loaded so I removed Synaptic and all is much better.

Now just to learn yaourt and pacman after so many years of using apt.

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Congrats on your first week of Arch!

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I just spent a few days working with Antergos KDE and put together a PLEX server with a virtualization host. Kind of a play toy experiment to help me learn some of the changes in Linux over the last few years. Antergos is the first distro I've touched since Debian and Mandriva OHHH so long ago..
I've enjoyed Antergos' approach to getting Arch running stable and hassle free. I don't often pass along distro advice because I don't keep up with any but my experience with Antergos has been excellent. The result is a fully functional OS and a relatively easy learning curve, just what I wanted from a "Return to Linux" Distro.
I've been hacking at the package manager and adding my favorites to the system for over three weeks without breaking anything and missing dependencies are so far a non issue with Arch repo.
The hardware was an older xeon single cpu server from HP with a dated NVidia 680 but I was able to get an older SCSI raid volume up an going with little more than a GUI frontend for LVM. I don't have the gumption to learn the CLI for LVM so the GUI was most welcome on my build.

How are you enjoying that arch documentation??? ;D

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