<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Well I always like to encourage people to be life long learners and changing your distribution can be a very positive experience.<br></div>I like Debian, ran it for years, it's still on my laptop but Arch is just sooo. much nicer for me. A great rolling distro and I don't have to wait months for the next update to a package to appear. Debian just seems stale once you used Arch. But hey, each to his own:-)<br><br></div>Try it you might like it.<br><br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Alan W. Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca" target="_blank">irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2016-09-24 11:46-0700 George Farris wrote:<br>
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Or dump Debian and go Arch.<br>
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That depends. If you are new to Linux or your current distro has<br>
ended life, by all means shop around through various active and<br>
well-supported distros (such as arch, fedora, ubuntu, and debian) to<br>
see which one is right for your needs. But once you have invested<br>
time learning a distro, and assuming there is nothing fundamentally<br>
wrong with it, then I would stick with it rather than wasting time<br>
looking for some other distro that might seem better until you<br>
actually live with it for a while. I am in that latter category. I<br>
have been running Debian for a decade and a half now, and it just is<br>
perfect for my needs.<span class=""><br>
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Arch also has probably the best wiki site on the planet for Linux info.<br>
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Certainly one of the better such sites. Another interesting site to<br>
mention here is Linux from Scratch and Beyond LFS which have lots of<br>
fundamentally useful information about building various free software<br>
packages.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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and the Linux Brochure Project (<a href="http://lbproject.sf.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lbproject.sf.net</a>).<br>
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