So I tried to install Arch on 2 different Computers, one was a Thinkpad X230 (now running Debian) and the other is my Raspberry Pi 2B.
In the first Case I tried to unetbootin the .iso to a USB and boot it - immediate kernel panic. Same thing with the "just do this" webinstall - immediate kernelpanic. Tried two different USBs.
Fuck it, this laptop runs Debian unstable then, whatever.
Later heard about ALARM (Arch Linux for ARM), looked up the correct version and went through 4 Iterations of trying:
Step one, follow a tutorial on the net where you put the SD Card with the Image in, set some locales, pacman -Syu the thing and then partition the disk - which spectacularily ended in a kernel panic upon reboot due to unknown Sector.
Two more tries of this, all of them unsuccessful.
Last try was folloing the official tutorial on the ALARM Website, which tells you to format the SD Card on another computer.
Guess what, halfway through the tutorial - even when logged in as root - some commands are not found. Turns out the fucking tutorial was for Arch Linux Computers only.
maybe you should run babbys first OS instead. ArchLinux is for power users who know what they're doing and want a rolling release binary distro.
Ethan Watson
I installed Arch on an old laptop and used it for about a year. It was good at first but eventually I ran into more and more issues to the point where I wiped the entire thing and just ran Kubuntu.
Michael Roberts
What issues? Did stuff break 'cause of updates? I've been using Arch for a month, all good so far, but I do wonder if/when I'll run into problems.
David Collins
>Debian 7 Why would you use oldoldstable?
Brayden Allen
There are two kind of arch users. Those who claim it's stable ans those who use the word nvidia.
Jordan Jackson
>t. incompetent retard
Nolan Moore
Install CloverOS
Carson Richardson
I was updating and my Laptop died. It was all downhill from there.
Hudson Cruz
So you didn't make sure your laptop wouldn't die on you in the middle of an update, and that's the distro's fault? Windows could shit the bed too if you powered off your PC in the middle of an update.
Ryan James
I am an arch user with nVidia GPU and never really any issue after a pacman -Syu. I don't really understand all the complaints about arch upgrade breaking stuff, the only time I had a minor issue after an upgrade it's when I realised I should have read the changelog before upgrading. Kept doing that and never had issues again.
Christopher Jackson
I didn't say that all slaves owning a nvidia product complain about stability. I just say that those who complain are slaves owning a nvidia product.
Joseph Gomez
>being so stupid that you can't format and boot pacstrap
Leo Green
it booted up fine, but I had to individually rm a ton of packages, and then when I FINALLY managed to get things working again I would eventually run into similar issues. Also why do you bring up windows?
Ryder Jones
Because your criticism isn't an arch issue. Your computer lost power during a fucking upgrade. No shit things will break.
You didn't "get things working again", you unfucked your system just enough to make it seem like it was back to normal. Your eventual issues were exposing the fact that your install was still fucked because of your stupidity and carelessness.
Hudson Allen
Whats wrong with nvidia and arch? If anything AMD's the nightmare material.
unetbootin fucks up every second time for me too. Just use dd or something proper. Most of the time it seems to depend on the stick I use, not the distro. Heck mount the physical disc in a vm and install from there. Still better. Arch is definitely not a meme, if any of the major distros,its fedora.
Luis Green
Archlinux is the most fuck-up-able distro. you can try to unfuck it, but it'll be a day project with tons of research and people on forums telling you to "read the documentation". Never Happened to me personally, but I've researched enough to see countless users getting shit on because Arch is a super seecret club. Arch is for those who have infinite amounts of time to tinker with their OS and thinkpads.
Ryan Martinez
Maybe, I don't have enough time with it myself. However, the guy I'm replying to's particular example says nothing about Arch as a stable distro. Doesn't matter what OS you're using, if you lose power during an update, shit will be borked.
Josiah Young
Is it true that the package manager in Arch will fuck around with your configs and other things in your system?
Samuel Russell
For Arch to work properly, you have to update regulary. The last time i left my Arch outdated is like 3 months without updates, and when i run pacman -Syu, pacman just fucked up my system and made me have to reinstall
Julian Ortiz
Every package manager does that.
Easton Hall
neither unetbootin nor alarm are supported by the arch project you done goofed
Brayden Wright
Arch has been more stable and less time consuming than Debian every time I try them
