Comments on: Reports from the home counties http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/reports-from-the-home-counties/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: quigybo http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/reports-from-the-home-counties/#comment-44740 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:55:30 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/reports-from-the-home-counties/#comment-44740 While I still think that it is only a matter of time before a proper GUI frontend using libalpm comes along, I agree with x33a that using Arch requires a little bit of knowledge and enthousiasm in maintaining it through the many updates. I always review what is being installed, and if anything interesting comes up, either as a post install message, new version of an important package or new dependencies, I double check that everything is ok afterwards. That and a quick look at the Arch news feed to see if there are any notices there.

My point is that, while I prefer Arch for my own system, I still recommend one of the more ‘user friendly’ distros for linux newcomers. Rolling release has many advantages, ‘newcomer friendly’ is not one of them.

]]> By: x33a http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/reports-from-the-home-counties/#comment-44623 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:06:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/reports-from-the-home-counties/#comment-44623 Having a graphical frontend to pacman is good for the less experienced. but as you must already know, pacman is not a fire and forget type of package manager as compared to apt or yum, and so upgrading the system can be problematic sometimes.

Hence, i would never put arch on the computer of a linux newbie.

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