Last night I finally installed Arch in a VirtualBox VM. And DESU I don't see what the big deal is...

Last night I finally installed Arch in a VirtualBox VM. And DESU I don't see what the big deal is. You can customize it sure, but I can also perform the same level of customization doing a minimal Ubuntu install, then choosing my own initial DE (i.e. i3), and so on.

The only *real* difference between Ubuntu and Arch seems to be the package manager. And AUR did not impress me. Every AUR package I installed was met with red text in the terminal saying Warning this package is unverified.

Why is Arch so much better than Ubuntu again? Because I'm not seeing it.

I installed it on my ThinkPad and it just werks, even my vm windows 7 runs faster than a host win7 install.

> red text in the terminal saying Warning this package is unverified

maybe linux is not for you

congratulations you learned what a GNU/Linux distribution is, if you can't see the difference between *buntu stuff and arch is because you don't even use to lurk deep in to the config files and community, do you even know what rolling release is ?

since arch is discussed

windows 8.1 on thinkpad
mbr, bios

sda1 - 350 MB partition exfat
sda2 - 150GB windows
sda3 - 100GB ext4 for arch

I hate swap partition, will use swap file

now when I install arch on such partitioned disk
do I mount the 350MB partition as /boot?
or is that done only on UEFI systems?

I think I dont do that, but bootable partition is marked that 350MB one
do I also mark the ext4 as bootable partition or leave it as is?

planning on using grub

dualbot is for retards.

What is the benefit of the boot partition? Worked fine without one when I dual booted windows/arch.

>do you even know what rolling release is ?
Sure, it's when you never have to do a dist-upgrade like on Ubuntu. I run dist-upgrade like once a year (maybe). Then the LTS releases come every few years. I usually wipe my system and reinstall then. I like having a clean slate every few years.

>if you can't see the difference between *buntu stuff and arch is because you don't even use to lurk deep in to the config files
Like I said, minimal *buntu can be configured just as much as Arch can. Please prove me wrong

>Sure, it's when you never have to do a dist-upgrade like on Ubuntu.

just stop posting

I'm not wrong on the difference between a rolling release distro and a static release distro, but nice meme deflection anyways

>Why is Arch so much better than Ubuntu again? Because I'm not seeing it.
normal mpv playback
shit works

yea pacman does not take an HOUR to install gnome

dont use yaurt dumbass

go to windows, install cygwin , there will be no difference you gonna have all the GNU packages, whats the point of using GNU/Linux if I can make some hacks to windows to make it start faster then makeup everything to run KDE.

>normal mpv playback
let me clarify that
on ubuntu AND debian video in fullscreen was unwatchable, cpu was off the hook, youtube in firefox was impossible

on arch it just werk'd
so yea arch >>>>>>>>>ubuntu/debian

>I use Arch because mpv player
mpv works flawlessly for me on Ubuntu MATE

I'm giving you sympathy because I can tell you're a non-native English speaker, but I have no idea what you're attempting to communicate. You still haven't explained how Arch is better than Ubuntu.

how do you know? you've never used anything else

Because when you install packages from random PPAs you don't get any warning the package in unverified. That's why.

>>I use Arch because mpv player
where did i write that?

Yes

On uefi it would be /boot/EFI

I summed up your post here You cited mpv player performance as a reason to use Arch instead of Ubuntu. Therefore

>You use Arch because mpv player

mno you just obviously have the comprehension of a monkey

all i did was answer
>Why is Arch so much better than Ubuntu again? Because I'm not seeing it.
=/= a reason to use Arch instead of Ubuntu. Therefore

and its not performance - it just worked normal with archlinux
it's a debian ubuntu bug? or something
it's shit

mpv player works fine for me on Ubuntu. Must've been a user error by you