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Arch Linux for Devs

Sven Hettwer on June 23, 2018

This report is about the experience I've made with Arch Linux as the operating system for a developers workstation. You'll be introduced into the c...
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Douglas R Andreani

By the way, have I already mentioned that I use Arch?

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Piotr Słupski

Great read.

As I have mentioned, I use

How to change the background color in markdown?

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Sven Hettwer • Edited

Hi!
I'm glad you liked it.

With markdown, you're unable to manipulate images directly. But there are multiple logos available under archlinux.org/art/

Please have a look at the trademark policy before use.

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What you could do is adding some html and css to your markdown page. At least this is possible if you're using jekyll or Hugo AFAIK. But I don't know how you would achieve this on dev.to.

BR,
Sven

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Jon Ribeiro

My case: Arch Linux at home since 2007, where I was able to spend time configuring it as I wanted and Manjaro (Arch Linux based, for those of you who don't know) at work, as I chose not to spend time with configuration.

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Nishith Savla

Have a look at Garuda Linux. This has awesome aesthetics, power of Arch as it is based on Arch, and has the Calamares installer so you can set it up in minutes.

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Manuel Torrez

I like Arch but I don't like spending too much time setting up the OS, so Manjaro is for me

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Nishith Savla

Have a look at Garuda Linux. This has awesome aesthetics, power of Arch as it is based on Arch, and has the Calamares installer so you can set it up in minutes.

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maxdevjs • Edited

I'd suggest to check aurman AUR page (before to adopt it):

"polygamma commented on 2018-08-21 18:02
aurman development for public use has been stopped. i suggest migrating to yay, i am not interested in any kind of feedback, bug reports, feature requests etc. anymore."

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Sven Hettwer

Yeah, as I wrote the blog, aurman was still under development. I've switched to yay as well but did not change the post.

BR,
Sven

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Sven Hettwer

I've altered the post. Thx for pointing that out @maxdevjs !

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Thorsten Hirsch

Arch's package management is great! It's the easiest for packaging your own software, much easier than DEB and RPM. And that's why so many users contribute to AUR, I guess.

So if you want a clean setup on your computer with each and every software under control of the system's package manager, yes, I think Arch is the best OS for that (and probably also distributions that are derived from Arch).

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Goldpeace99

I totally agree with this. Because I am using Arch and I think it is the best OS for me. Maybe some people don't like it.

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Valentin Silvestre

Well I'm having an XPS and Ubuntu is fully compatibly so I use Ubuntu.
It work really great and I got no problem.. Arch is way harder to use, install and manage.

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Nishith Savla

Have a look at Garuda Linux. It has awesome aesthetics, power of Arch as it is based on Arch, and has the Calamares installer so you can set it up in minutes. Also, it has some GUI stuff for many settings which you need to do using the terminal in other distros.

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PNS11

Been in Ubuntu daily for months and nothing have made me miss Arch this much before.

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Inline Assembly

Since I use Blackarch (Arch-based) 3 years ago on my laptop, I decide to install my PC at the office with Arch. It's great OS for my daily needs along with SLES and FreeBSD.