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author: Sanchayan Maity
title: Arch Linux - Finally!!
tags: archlinux
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<p style='text-align: justify;'>I have tried Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian Squeeze, Mint Maya and Fedora. Of these, I have enjoyed Mint Maya the most. I got pissed with the Unity interface and though Mint was super nice, I wanted something more to fiddle with. Having heard of Arch and Gentoo being the two distributions which are toughest to install, but, customizable exactly the way one wants it, I decided to try one of these.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>I surfed the net for a while trying to find which one will suit my need. Gentoo was super customizable, but, then I don't want to spent hours on customization. I decided to go with Arch Linux. When I checked out, 2011.08.19 was available and I started with that. After trying around five different times in the last three months, I gave up. Kept having problems with pacman update and glibc. I tried 2012.08.04 when it became available, but, i got problems with grub after rebooting.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Just recently, 2012.09.07 became available and I decided to try this out. Followed the instructions given here </p>

[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide)

<p style='text-align: justify;'>to the letter. And viola, I successfully booted in Arch Linux. And it boots well even with just 256MB RAM allotted to it in VM. Took XFCE for a spin and gonna check out KDE along with Cinnamon and Mate as well.</p>

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Arch was not so tough to install after all. One just has to follow the instructions. Next step is to see if I can contribute to Arch Linux in any way.</p>
